Mark Grabowski co-authored a book chapter, “The Ethics of Privacy: Questioning Media Coverage of the Tiger Woods Sex Scandal,” which was published in Marquette Books’ newly-released Contemporary Media Ethics: A Practical Guide for Students, Scholars and Professionals in the Globalized World (2nd ed.).

The chapter was co-written by Sokthan Yeng, a philosophy professor at Adelphi University who has collaborated with Grabowski on other publications.

Here's the abstract: " The global media circus surrounding the Tiger Woods’ sex scandal found journalists wrangling once again with whether the private lives of public figures are newsworthy or off limits. This chapter examines how U.S. newspapers covered the golfer’s personal woes, comparing and contrasting coverage in Woods’ hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, with America’s national newspaper of record, The New York Times, to determine whether it was fair within the scope of utilitarianism, a dominant ethical perspective in the West, and Buddhism, an ethical framework inserted by Woods himself. Applying these ethical systems can provide a foundation for the questioning of both the processing and consumption of news stories. This chapter brings to the fore the perpetual questions about the credibility of using information from anonymous sources, tabloids and gossip websites, which increasingly set the media’s agenda as it focuses more on infotainment and less on hard news. The exploration of utilitarian and Buddhist perspectives also raises questions about the ethical conduct of readers and consumers of news. The media, after all, is not only shaped by the desires of news editors."

Mark Grabowski's paper, on why professional sports should utilize mediation in disputes, was selected for presentation at the 2014 International Association for Communication and Sport's Summit on Sport and Communication.

At the moment, this method of alternative dispute resolution is seldom used in pro sports. But given the unique nature of sports disputes along with a mediator’s success in ending the 2012-13 National Hockey League labor strike, it should be utilized much more often, instead of management and athletes relying on the commonly used resolution methods of arbitration, litigation and protracted negotiations. Citing examples and experts, the paper argues that it would improve player-management relationships, player morale and public opinion.

The conference, which runs from March 14-16 in New York City, is the leading venue for communication researchers from varied theoretical and methodological approaches to identify, understand, and critique the communicative significance of sport on an annual basis. All submissions were evaluated through a blind peer review process.

The paper will be published in the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law.