Journalistic integrity is a about being fair and honest. Not being bias and being truthful. Doing what is right and fair, not wrong. The key elements of journalistic integrity is accuracy, avoiding bias, distortions, gathering information, and minimizing harm. Accuracy is when mistakes, or error occurs, from the information and must be corrected quickly. Avoiding bias is very important because you are being fair. However, you can state your opinion, but you can't let it affect your writing. 
A journalist without integrity is when they are bias and they lie about the facts. For example, if there was a court case about someone stealing at target, and the journalist told the wrong facts, the journalist doesn't have integrity. Instead, the journalist can tell the truth. A journalism may tell rumors about celebritys and lie about politics, but they don't have much integrity.
Journalistic integrity is important to the class because it teaches the students to tell the truth, not cause conflicts, and be yourself. For example, when I write, I will not make assumptions, tell lies, and give false information. You want to know the truth and we need to tell the facts, not being bias. People want the facts and a journalist will have integrity and write the truth! Reference: Purdue OWL,http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/03/, 8/28/12
Wikipedia: Journalism ethics and standards,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards, 8/28/12
Taylor Middle School: The Bulldog Bulletin Introduction To Journalism, http://www.tmsjournalism.blogspot.com/, 8/27/12
Book:John Reque, Introduction To Journalism, Page:23
