NEW YORK — Clark Kent isn’t the only superhero to quit his newspaper job.

I know quite a few men – and women – of steel who’ve packed it in. And I am certain that since these great reporters stopped outrunning trains on deadline and leaping tall buildings in a single bound, there are a lot more bad guys operating in the shadows of the city as a result.

NEW YORK – How do you set a standard for ethics in journalism in the digital age?

Is it any different than the ethical standards that have been enshrined by generations past in the old-school world of newspapers and network news?

And how do reporters out there in the world establish ‘truth’ in a landscape where spouting opinion too often prevails over digging for facts?

The Paley Center for Media hosted a gathering of journalists, entrepreneurs and new media thinkers to ponder these questions at a forum on “The New Ethics of Journalism: A Guide for the 21st Century.”

Every week we will be on the lookout for the best examples of GroundTruth in the media. This week, we take our search north.

GlobalPost's recently published Special Report, "The Arctic Melt," aims to get at the huge stakes — economic, environmental, and political — raised as the Arctic melts faster than ever. The melt has spurred a battle at the top of the world that threatens to alter the environment and change residents' way of life. And at the heart of this battle is oil.

At the top of the world, tradition runs strong.

The community of Savoonga, Alaska marked the beginning of the fall whaling season with traditional drumming on August 30. Savoonga, population 704, sits on the northern tip of St. Lawrence Island, a tiny speck of land that's closer to Russia than Alaska. St. Lawrence Island is one of the few remains of the Bering Land Bridge, according to the Alaska Dispatch.