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For the first time, Spain has a deontological standard for all professionals in Library and Information Science, with the adoption in 2013 of a professional ethics code by SEDIC and FESABID. This is in addition to a similar document adopted by IFLA, which wasthe first international text for professionals in libraries and information services. Both initiatives help to strengthen collective identity and social prestige, also reflecting its dependence on the institutions that employ them. Finally, the codes can also be interpreted as responses to threats of “economicism” and misfeasance of technology.

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The journalism profession is facing a new digital communication environment in which traditional information flows, emanating from the media to the general public unidirectionally, are reversed under the new channels of participation and influence that audiences, which are active and dynamic on the network, use to take part in shaping public opinion. In this paperwe describe and analyze some of the citizens’ information practices and the ethical dilemmas posed about journalism and the right to information.

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The tendency towards the instantaneity of information, due in part to the irruption of social networks into journalistic discourse, has had a direct impact on the quality and ethical considerations of professional practice. Closely related to this phenomenon is the participation of the audiences in configuring the news, posing new challenges to the profession that require measures and skills that cannot always be sought in classic codes of ethics. New principles are, therefore, needed to guide daily practice. In this article a decalogue of deontological guidelines applicable to professional work in digital journalism is proposed.

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How can we foster ethical professional behavior in communication students? In order to answer this question, this article describes how a TV series was used in university teaching as a learning tool. This article consists of three sections: first, university teaching is presented as the context and professional ethics as the curricular space where the proposal is developed; second, we show why the use of TV dramas, besides motivating student interest, facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and ethical attitudes; third, we describe the use of a TV series, The newsroom, in the classroom and some testimonies that demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategy for the understanding of the subject content.