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Call To Penalize Media Outlets Violating Journalism Ethics in Ghana
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Sydney Smith
May 19, 2013
06:00 AM EST
Ghana Institute of Journalism rector David Newton called for penalties against media outlets that don't follow journalism standards. Newton also advocated for the country's journalists abide by journalism ethics...
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Scott Pelley says it has 'been a bad few months for journalism'
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Sydney Smith
May 18, 2013
06:00 AM EST
"We're getting the big stories wrong over and over again," CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said recently, according to the Associated Press. Pelley, who also contributes to 60 Minutes, added that it...
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iMediaEthics Nominated as Finalist in Online Media Awards
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Sydney Smith
May 17, 2013
05:00 AM EST
iMediaEthics is pleased to report that we were named this week as a finalist in the 2013 Online Media Awards category for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism." Other finalists in this category are...
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Sports Reporter Fired after 'Tremendous Amount of Sex' Freudian Slip
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Sydney Smith
May 15, 2013
06:00 AM EST
Comcast SportsNet Chicago fired sports reporter Susannah Collins earlier this month, according to the sports media website Sherman Report. The May 3 firing came just days after she botched her comments about a Chicago...
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New York Post fakes it again, Obama photo doctored with NO disclosure
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Rhonda Roland Shearer
May 14, 2013
01:55 PM EST
Can't the New York Post play by the rules? Photo editors know they are supposed to disclose when an image is a "photo illustration" even if the image looks obviously Photoshopped to many. Sunday, the NY...
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Why Journalists Shouldn't Say 'Shark-infested Waters,' Guardian Readers Editor Explains
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Sydney Smith
May 11, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The term "shark-infested waters" is an inaccurate cliche, the Guardian readers' editor Chris Elliott argued in a May 5 column. Readers took the paper to task after reporting on two American tourists who...
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Student Newspaper Defends Anonymous Source Use in Adderall Story as 'Public Health Issue'
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Sydney Smith
May 10, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The University of Portland's [Oregon] student newspaper The Beacon offered an example of transparency to readers last month. In a story on college students taking Adderall, "Drugged For Success," the...
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BBC Fires Sports Broadcaster who Admitted 'Indecent Assault on Young Girls'
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Sydney Smith
May 09, 2013
10:35 AM EST
The BBC announced that it fired sports broadcaster Stuart Hall the same day that UK prosecutors confirmed he "pleaded guilty to 14 indecent assaults on young girls" between 1967 and 1986, the Associated Press...
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MSNBC Cuts & Pastes Biden's words about Benghazi, and makes them about Gun control, Says sorry afterwards
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Sydney Smith
May 07, 2013
06:00 AM EST
A "producer error" led MSNBC to quote Vice President Joe Biden out of context from one event (about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya) and apply it to another segment with a completely different meaning,...
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Father of Teen May Sue, Accused by NY Post as Boston Marathon Bomber on Front Page
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Sydney Smith
May 06, 2013
05:00 AM EST
An angry father of a teenager wrongly identified by the New York Post as a possible suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings might sue, the Washington Post reported. His son and another person were depicted in a...
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John Krasinski, Arrested Development: Yahoo News Uses Wrong Photo
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
07:00 AM EST
Oops! Yahoo News wrongly used a picture of director John Singleton with a news story about The Office actor John Krasinski joining the upcoming season of Arrested Development. Gawker, which posted a screenshot of...
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Guardian's Twitter Accounts for 'Lies and Slander'
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The Guardian reported that some of its Twitter accounts was hacked this past week. Hacked accounts included the Guardian's Books, Travel and Film accounts. According to the Guardian, the Syrian...
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IVA Worldwide fund invests 145%? New York Times Math Error Prompts Correction
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
05:30 AM EST
The New York Times corrected an April 7 article that wrongly -- and impossibly -- claimed that 145% of investment management firm International Value Advisers (IVA) Worldwide's "total portfolio is in European...
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Scottish Sun Invaded Privacy By Photographing Funeral, PCC Says
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
05:00 AM EST
The Scottish Sun was called out by the Press Complaints Commission for being insensitive and invasion of privacy when publishing pictures from a funeral last fall. The photos showed the family of Sir Chris Hoy at a...
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CBS News' 60 Minutes Twitter Account Hacked, Fake Tweet Posted
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Sydney Smith
April 28, 2013
07:00 AM EST
CBS News' Twitter account for 60 Minutes was hacked last Saturday and a phony tweet was posted. The fake tweet read, pictured above, "Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with...
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NPR Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, Says it's made 'Necessary Corrections'
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Sydney Smith
April 28, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked another news site. In recent months the group has hacked BBC Twitter accounts, the AFP's Twitter account, and Al Jazeera's "mobile service." This time,...
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Editor of News Corp's The Sun OK'ed Bribes, UK Prosecutors Say
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Sydney Smith
April 28, 2013
05:00 AM EST
The executive editor of UK News Corp-owned newspaper The Sun, Fergus Shanahan, was charged in the UK police's investigation into bribery for "an offence of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office,"...
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NYTimes: 'We Tend not to Accept Native Advertising or Branded Content'
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April 23, 2013
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Cape Cod Times, Macy's Say Sorry for 'Unintentional' Pressure Cooker Ad Published next to Boston Marathon Bomb Stories
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Sydney Smith
April 20, 2013
12:30 PM EST
The Cape Cod Times apologized to readers for putting an advertisement for a pressure cooker next to a story about the pressure cooker bomb used in the Boston Marathon explosion, Jim Romenesko reported. "The news...
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Paul Ryan Letter to Editor "Contained an Egregious Error", Kansas City Star Readers Rep says
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Sydney Smith
April 20, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The Kansas City Star fact checks letters to the editor before publication, according to the newspaper's public editor Derek Donovan. But, in an April 12 case, the paper missed an error in a letter about Rep. Paul...
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