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1. Fantasy Sports Writers of America 2010 survey

 
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Thank you for giving me 10 minutes to ask 23 multiple-choice survey questions of journalism practices among fantasy sports writers.

http://www.fantasysportsbusiness.com/ links to my personal profile, and http://faculty.ithaca.edu/mloop/ links to my professional profile. Please email me at mloop@ithaca.edu with any survey thoughts you have.

Thank you once again. My goal is to promote best practices in fantasy sports journalism as a means to increasing credibility and participation.

Sincerely,

Mead Loop
Associate Professor, Journalism
Ithaca College

1. What is your primary fantasy sports responsibility?

2. My employer follows a written code of ethics.

3. What newsroom code of ethics do you follow?

4. If written codes apply, how are they used?

5. What are examples of unwritten codes that apply to your work?

6. How often do you refer to ethics codes when you have a question about a professional situation?

7. How much influence do journalism ethics codes have on my work?

8. The following questions follow this format: Choose one from "strongly agree," "agree," "neutral," "disagree" and "strongly disagree."

My employer decides what is and isn't ethical in my newsroom.

9. Fantasy sports reporters should not use information from published sources without permission or attribution.

10. All information in a story should be attributed.

11. Story ideas should not be borrowed from other sources.

12. The degree to which I meet the journalistic standards of ethics should have no impact on my professional advancement.

13. I would break ethical codes to gather news.

14. I make ethical decisions based on what I think my colleagues would do.

15. I behave ethically so I don't get caught doing the "wrong" thing.

16. I behave ethically because my audience expects me to do so.

17. I do not allow my personal fantasy teams to influence my reporting and analysis.

18. Entertaining readers is more important than informing them.

19. My reporting is more about analysis than breaking news.

20. Fantasy sports reporting is as professionally legitimate a beat as traditional sports coverage.

21. Audiences care more about fantasy sports than "traditional" sports coverage.

22. Analysis is more important than breaking fantasy sports news.

23. Fantasy sports is essential in sports journalism today.