The Criteria of Islamic Morals of Journalism

Today, news has become an essential need of everyone. The information reported through the media has its effect on people’s thoughts, feelings and lifestyle. Journalists who from the main body of the media strive to choose from the thousands small incidents and big events that happen the world over every day. News broadcasts reported through the media is primarily selected by journalists. Since selection of every item requires a certain criterion, the researcher has attempted to extract moral criteria from religious texts and answer these fundamental questions: according to Islam, who can be responsible for journalism in Islamic society? What behavioral characteristics should he have? And what professional moral journalistic criteria should he apply while taking this responsibility? Explaining seven principles of the morals of journalism, this paper responds to some of the questions relating to the morals of journalism.