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Just under 20 people gathered in a semi circle at the Sacramento Press's office to listen to a Journalism Ethics workshop on Wednesday night. Molly Dugan, assistant professor of journalism and communication studies at Sac State, led the workshop.

Participants enjoyed pizza and salad from Hot Italian and mingled with other professionals from various media organizations.

Dugan covered the basics of libel, public figures, honesty, accuracy and disclosure when writing articles. She encouraged writers to utilize public records and disclose their connection with the story - whether it be revealing that they have made a donation to the political candidate they are writing about in an article, or that they are married to a city official if it relates to the topic being written about.

She shared many of her own experiences as newspaper reporter and discussed the ethical implications of undercover investigative journalism.

Dugan also covered ethical writing in blogs, explaining that the same rules apply to personal blogs as news articles.

Two attendees tweeted the workshop as it unfolded, making the content available to all of those followers who weren't able to make it that evening.

The Sacramento Press will be holding many more workshops. We'll be sending out information soon for the next workshop in March. If you have any suggestions for future workshops, please e-mail journalism@sacramentopress.com

Thanks to those who came out to the Journalism Ethics workshop last night!