http://www.imediaethics.org/feed/news.xml iMediaEthics News. en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 07:01:01 -0400 Copyright:(C) 2013 iMediaEthics, http://www.imediaethics.org/feed/news.xml http://www.imediaethics.org/ http://www.imediaethics.org/templates/basic/images/logo.gif http://www.imediaethics.org/feed/news.xml 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 at a recent media conference, according to The Daily Graphic. The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3894 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3894 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 "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 has "been a bad few months for journalism" because of the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3933 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3933 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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 Agrimoney.com; Chemistry World by Royal Society of Chemistry; Guardian Data - http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3940 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3940 Fri, 17 May 2013 05:00:00 -0400 For the first time in 18 years, the Toronto Star had to run a front-page apology after wrongly saying that a politician was on vacation, Toronto Star public editor Kathy English noted in a recent column. It was also the first time the Star ever promoted an apology on its homepage. As http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3924 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3924 Thu, 16 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 CNN's Michael Martinez made an error in his May 12 story on the Cleveland kidnappings case and suspect Ariel Castro. But, at some point since the story's publication, CNN or Martinez spotted the error and instead of posting a transparent correction, simply scrubbed the bad http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3937 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3937 Wed, 15 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400 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 Blackhawks hockey game. While she was apparently intending to say http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3930 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3930 Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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 Post's May 12 print newspaper column by Michael Goodwin, displayed a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3935 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3935 Tue, 14 May 2013 13:55:00 -0400 South Korean news organization Yonhap News Agency published a strange side-by-side image of South Korean President Park Geun-hye with President Barack Obama apparently shaking hands. The image is odd because it creates an optical illusion that the two leaders were shaking hands and the original http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3936 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3936 Tue, 14 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's lawyer accused newspaper al-Watan of publishing a fake interview with Mubarak. Al-Watan reporter Mohammad Al Shaikh claims he talked to Mubarak recently, and that Mubarak said in part "You cannot imagine the distress and sorrow I feel http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3934 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3934 Mon, 13 May 2013 11:40:00 -0400 A new iMediaEthics poll suggests Americans are more laid back about immigration reform than what most polls show, with about a third of the public unengaged on the issue. The rest appear to be about evenly divided on whether to allow immigrants living illegally in the U.S. to remain or not. (For http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3932 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3932 Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 -0400 IMEDIAETHICS METHODOLOGY FOR IMMIGRATION SURVEY See Full Report Geography Surveyed: USA 50 States Data Collected: 04 13 2013 - 04 16 2013 Immigration: 896 adults nationwide were interviewed by SurveyUSA Saturday 04 13 13 through Tuesday 04 16 13. Research, conceptualized and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3927 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3927 Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 -0400 The BBC promised to give a "gambling addict" anonymity if he would be interviewed by the network's Panorama program for a feature on "gambling addiction," but the BBC didn't do a good job of holding up to its promise, UK regulator OfCom found. According to a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3928 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3928 Sun, 12 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Cleveland ABC-affiliate WEWS (NewsNet 5) unpublished an article and apologized for its "poor judgment call" in reporting on the criminal past of Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue Amanda Berry from neighbor Ariel Castro's house. Castro has been charged with raping Berry, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3931 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3931 Sat, 11 May 2013 19:00:00 -0400 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 swam for 12 hours through what the Guardian described as http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3926 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3926 Sat, 11 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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 Beacon disclosed to readers why it decided to "make exceptions" to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3892 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3892 Fri, 10 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Many news outlets are naming the six-year-old daughter of Cleveland kidnapping victim, Amanda Berry. But should they? Berry is one of three women who were kidnapped in Ohio between 9 and 11 years ago, and found this week in the Cleveland home of former school bus driver Ariel http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3929 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3929 Thu, 09 May 2013 14:21:00 -0400 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 reported. Hall started working for the BBC in 1959. According to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3922 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3922 Thu, 09 May 2013 10:35:00 -0400 There are journalists, and then there are police. And then there are student journalists. And campus police. Whereas battle-hardened, experienced journalists know how to pick their battles and navigate their way around how the police sometimes operate (which in some cases, is in clear http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3925 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3925 Thu, 09 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400 The public editor for Cornell University's student newspaper Cornell Daily Sun, Nicholas Kaasik, slammed the newspaper for how it reported on rape in an April 4 story. "In my opinion, The Sun had a significant lapse in journalistic ethics in its coverage of a recently http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3912 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3912 Thu, 09 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 It is easy to critique the media for errors during national breaking news like the Boston Marathon bombing, but what about daily local coverage? An iMediaEthics fact check of stories about a recent fire in the Bronx, New York, shows the same level of failure in local coverage as http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3923 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3923 Wed, 08 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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, the Huffington Post reported. Biden had said, according to the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3919 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3919 Tue, 07 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Howard Kurtz apologized May 5 on his CNN program Reliable Sources for his now-retracted Daily Beast article about NBA player Jason Collins. "It was a mistake that I made and it was sloppy and inexcusable...I am truly sorry," Kurtz said. As iMediaEthics wrote last week, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3921 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3921 Mon, 06 May 2013 09:30:00 -0400 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 front-page photo from the marathon that the New York Post said were being http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3913 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3913 Mon, 06 May 2013 05:00:00 -0400 The Los Angeles Times is the latest news organization to update its standards for how it reports on immigration. According to the Times, the newspaper plans on handling descriptions with "a careful, case-by-case approach" that is "fair, nuanced and precise." As http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3917 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3917 Sun, 05 May 2013 05:00:00 -0400 A Louisiana high school's student newspaper published a story that local restaurant was being shut down and possibly sued over huge health violations, like selling old, re-used food, including "months old" cheese dip. One heck of a scoop, right? Wrong. The story was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3911 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3911 Sat, 04 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The Drudge Report needs to start fact checking. The conservative news aggragation website was tricked by a satire story from The Daily Currant claiming that a Brooklyn restaurant would not sell New York's mayor Mike Bloomberg a second slice of pizza. The Daily Currant's May 2 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3920 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3920 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:00:00 -0400 Recently, Fairleigh Dickinson's PublicMind poll released results of a national survey showing 29% of registered voters agree with the statement, andldquo;In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.andrdquo; This got TalkingPointsMemo http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3918 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3918 Fri, 03 May 2013 13:55:00 -0400 While New York children were watching TV and munching on corn flakes as their parents slept in, New York's WPIX-TV (PIX Channel 11) aired a program called "Best Sex Ever"' on a recent Sunday morning. The Tribune Broadcasting-owned station describes itself as http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3916 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3916 Fri, 03 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Washington Wizards pro basketball player Jason Collins announced in a very high-profile May 6 Sports Illustrated cover story this week that he is gay. And within a few days of Collins' story being published online, there have already been two media ethics issues that have grabbed http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3914 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3914 Thu, 02 May 2013 15:30:00 -0400 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 the photo fail, described the error quite succinctly: "In lieu http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3909 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3909 Thu, 02 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400 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 Electronic Army said it hacked the accounts because of the Guardian's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3910 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3910 Thu, 02 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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 equities." But really, since a total is 100% you can't invest http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3895 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3895 Thu, 02 May 2013 05:30:00 -0400 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 funeral for Hoy's uncle. According to the BBC, Hoy is http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3903 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3903 Thu, 02 May 2013 05:00:00 -0400 The Washington Post and Pew announced last week that only 15% of Americans were andldquo;angryandrdquo; at the U.S. Senate's failure to pass the gun bill that included required background checks for gun buyers. Another 32% were andldquo;disappointed,andrdquo; for a total of just 47% who reacted http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3901 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3901 Wed, 01 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400 A fake photo purportedly showing a huge supercell thunderstorm cloud over Lawton, Oklahoma has been circulating on social media, the National Weather Service said. The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma debunked the phony photo in its own Facebook post on April 19. "It's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3906 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3906 Wed, 01 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Why did the Toronto Star use anonymous sources to claim that the city's mayor, Rob Ford, was possibly so drunk that he was kicked out of a military event? In an April column, public editor Kathy English inspected the story after publication and after receiving complaints from http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3904 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3904 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:00:00 -0400 Politico, the Washington, D.C.-based political journalism organization, is notorious for using anonymous sources in its reporting and it has taken heat for it before. As Slate's David Weigel put it in his recent article Opening Act: Someone Save Politico From Itself, "The people http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3908 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3908 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The New York Police Department told iMediaEthics that it does not believe the recently found piece of 9 11 aircraft is a hoax. Numerous questions were raised about the piece of aircraft recently found near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Many media outlets have speculated that perhaps http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3907 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3907 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:57:00 -0400 The Associated Press' Twitter accounts @ap and @AP_mobile were hacked this past week. The hackers posted to the @ap account a fake tweet on April 23 claiming the White House was attacked and President Obama was hurt. "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3902 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3902 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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 Al-Qaeda," along with a link to LaRouchePac.com. That is the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3891 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3891 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:00:00 -0400 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, it's the website for National Public Radio and "some of NPR's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3882 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3882 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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," according to a statement from the UK Crown Prosecution Service. The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3893 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3893 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:00:00 -0400 Last year, French magazine Closer published topless pictures of Kate Middleton (aka the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William's wife) sunbathing on a terrace of a house during a vacation. Middleton and her husband ended up getting an injunction against Closer republishing the photos, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3899 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3899 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Polish magazine Wprost was hoaxed by a satire article claiming Sarah Palin wanted President Obama to invade the Czech Republic as a retaliation for the Boston Marathon bombings, the Examiner and Jim Romenesko reported. The humor website The Daily Currant's April 22 story http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3900 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3900 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 In the ten days since the Boston Marathon bombings, there have been a handful of errors and ethical issues in the related news media reportage. iMediaEthics has already written several stories about errors, including The New York Daily News' Photoshopping its front page to remove gore, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3890 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3890 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:00:00 -0400 The Philippines Daily Inquirer fessed up to publishing a hoax image on its April 20 front page. The fake photo showed the country's president, Benigno Aquino III, on the cover of Time's April 20 issue, "The 100 Most Influential People in the World." But, Aquino was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3897 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3897 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Dylan Byers of Politico has written a bizarre hatchet job of New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson. Apparently, she is a bitch, at least according to not one but andldquo;more than a dozen current and former members of the editorial staff, all of whom spoke to POLITICO on the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3898 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3898 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:20:00 -0400 Matthew Keys was fired from Reuters just a month after he was accused of helping Anonymous hack the Los Angeles Times' website. Keys, who was suspended after the indictment was announced, revealed that he was fired in an April 22 tweet. In that tweet, Keys said his "union will be http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3896 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3896 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The New York Times recently highlighted a sometimes controversial new practice in advertising -- sponsored content on news sites, also known as "branded content" and "native advertising." As the Times explained in its April 8 report, many sites including Mashable, The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3880 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3880 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Chattanoogan.com blogger and veteran sports broadcaster Randy Smith retracted his April 10 blogpost, apologized for quoting Geno Auriemma, head coach of University of Connecticut women's basketball team The Huskies, out of context and denied that his blog included "an ethnic slur at http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3879 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3879 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Writer Dan Cassavaugh justifiably accused Stanford University student newspaper The Stanford Review of plagiarism, iMediaEthics has found. In a tweet that Jim Romenesko picked up, Cassavaugh claimed The Stanford Review stole his 2006 story for Imprint Magazine. Cassavaugh told iMediaEthics http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3889 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3889 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 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 content was related to the Boston Marathon bombing, including a graphic http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3886 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3886 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:30:00 -0400 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 Ryan and now plans to post a correction. Donovan was responding to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3873 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3873 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Whoops! iMediaEthics was catching up on the latest updates in the search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon explosions, and heard an expletive made it on the air on NBC News. The s-word was accidentally aired just a few minutes ago during NBC Nightly News' http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3887 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3887 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:25:00 -0400 Both The New York Daily News and New York Post have caught heat for their photojournalism ethics in reporting on the Boston Marathon explosions. The New York Daily News defended doctoring its front-page photograph to make it less bloody. As iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3883 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3883 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0400 In the days since the Boston Marathon explosions, there have been more than a handful of high-profile errors in the media, including wrongly reporting there was a suspect in custody within hours of the attack. Several TV news outlets, including CNN, wrongly reported April 17 that http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3884 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3884 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Reuters accidentally published an obituary for billionaire philanthropist George Soros today, according to Jim Romenesko. The obituary included dummy text for age and time of death, and a link to the obit now goes to an error page. It was a "30-paragraph obituary by Todd http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3885 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3885 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:35:00 -0400 Why do an exclusive interview for your front-page if you can just steal it from another newspaper? That's what the New York Post did with the New York Times' interview of former U.S. congressman and possible NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Just a day after the New York Times http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3876 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3876 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Errors in breaking news stories -- especially ones involving mass injuries and deaths -- often come with the territory. iMediaEthics has covered this topic in our December report on media errors in reporting on the mass shootings at Newtown, Connecticut's Sandy Hook school and in July, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3881 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3881 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:10:00 -0400 One of the questions facing lawmakers in their attempt to reform the immigration system is what to do with the estimated 11 million immigrants currently living in the United States illegally. Besides deportation, which most politicians and the general public oppose, the two major choices are to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3878 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3878 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Just days after the Associated Press issued new standards on the term "illegal immigrant," USA Today announced a change in its own practices in this regard, Jim Romenesko reported. In a memo from USA Today's William Coon, USA Today staff is instructed to stop using the term http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3871 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3871 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Is this an example of Iran's weird science? Fars News Agency, which has ties to the Iranian government, unpublished an April 8 story claiming Iranian Ali Razeqi created a "time machine," but not before countless news sites spread the tale. As the Washington Post summarized, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3872 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3872 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 North Carolina journalists and educators talked about "Ethics in the Media" at a Davidson College panel discussion, according to a news story from the college's website. Even though the panel was held on Feb. 4, you can check out video of the discussion, posted on the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3867 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3867 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 After complaints from an anthropologist, the Globe and Mail will now capitalize "First Nation" in stories and update its style book, according to Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead. While Stead explained the Canadian newspaper's standards called for First Nation to only http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3860 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3860 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Fox Nation unpublished Ann Coulter's April 10 column because she suggested killing Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter, the Associated Press reported. Coulter's article read: "MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3870 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3870 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:00:00 -0400 Recent polls from Quinnipaic, Marist, CBS News, Fox News, ABC Washington Post, and Pew suggest that about nine out of ten Americans agree that all gun buyers should be subject to a criminal background check before being allowed to purchase their weapon. But can we believe the polls? As http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3866 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3866 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:00:00 -0400 UK magazine That's Life paid a convicted murderer's sister for an interview about her imprisoned brother. That's Life is a weekly Bauer Publishing magazine for women. The magazine's January interview with Louise Hodgson described how in 2011, her brother http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3864 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3864 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Michaela McAreavey, a schoolteacher from Ireland, was murdered while on her honeymoon in Mauritius with her husband John in 2011. And making matters worse for her husband, The Sunday Times, a newspaper in Mauritius, published 12 graphic crime scene photographs of her dead, bikini-clad http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3868 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3868 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Major Shawn Haney, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Marine Corps, has helped reveal the extent to which Philadelphia magazine was hoaxed by a lying source. As iMediaEthics has written, Philadelphia issued an incredible apology this month after finding out a source, John Boudreau, duped http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3869 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3869 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:20:00 -0400 Finalists for the 2013 Mirror Awards were announced today. The Mirror Awards are annual awards given by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.to those "who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public's benefit." According to a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3865 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3865 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0400 A student dies of natural causes and the school newspaper gets a picture of his housemate's reaction. Should the paper print that? The public editor for Cornell University student newspaper the Cornell Daily Sun, Nicholas Kaasik, says no. Kaasik slammed the paper for http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3862 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3862 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Was the UK Daily Mirror hoaxed by an April Fools' joke? In an April 1 story, the Mirror reported on Virgin Atlantic Airways's announcement that it was going to premiere a plane with a glass floor. But the Mirror ONLY added a disclosure that the story was an April Fools' http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3849 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3849 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:00:00 -0400 Fox News reporter Jana Winter found out about a notebook belonging to James Holmes, the man accused in the infamous Colorado movie theater mass murder, from two unnamed sources in "law enforcement." Winter's story reported that James Holmes sent a notebook describing a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3858 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3858 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Outlets including Gizmodo UK, Venture Beat, and the Washington Times admitted being duped by an April Fools' hoax within 24 hours of emailed requests from iMediaEthics for corrections. Last week, iMediaEthics confirmed that several media outlets, including Venture Beat, Business Insider http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3852 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3852 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:00:00 -0400 Based on the Washington Post's readers representative's first blogpost this week, it looks like concerns about the new position may have been justified. Last month, the Washington Post announced it was ending its ombudsman role and instead creating a new readers representative http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3815 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3815 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 U.S. magazine Us Weekly was super excited to announce that Glee actress and former Beyonce back-up dancer Heather Morris was pregnant. But, Us Weekly better check back with its sources. In back-to-back reports on April 3, the magazine said Morris is three months pregnant, and then ten hours http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3857 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3857 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Philadelphia Magazine unpublished a story after discovering that its source fabricated dramatic and compelling tales about his psychological struggles with the "horrors of war." The source, John P. Boudreau, admitted to the magazine this week that he "embellished or flat-out http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3859 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3859 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 "Who is Shaping the News?" Are journalists, corporations, or media owners deciding what gets reported and how? Those quesions will be addressed this Friday, April 5 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual journalism ethics conference, according to the Wisconsin State http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3854 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3854 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:00:00 -0400 Indigenous people opened their newspapers last week in Western Canada to read, in a letter from a reader, that their race "never had a written language," "made almost no inventions" and "have a history that is notable only for underachievement." The Nanaimo http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3848 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3848 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The Daily News, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, Fox News and other news outlets published a photograph of Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon that used a fake background, but none of the news outlets disclosed this to readers. The image, released by NBC and taken by http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3856 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3856 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:35:00 -0400 "Crossed the border? Overstayed a visa?" According to the latest entry in the Associated Press stylebook, your actions are what's illegal, not you. The Associated Press will no longer use the term "illegal immigrant". Other banned words include http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3853 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3853 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 With many politicians falling over themselves in an effort to join the gay marriage movement, we might expect that most Americans today would support a referendum on that issue. But Nate Silver, the statistical guru who was uncannily accurate in aggregating polls during the past two http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3851 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3851 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:40:00 -0400 The BBC wrongly identified a South African man named Rufus Lekala as "Gay Marriage" in an on-air segment, the Guardian reported. Lekala is the chief harbor master for South African government-owned freight transport company Transnet. Transnet spokesperson Lunga Ngcobo called for http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3847 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3847 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver newspapers. News outlets including Business Insider, the Washington Times and the Drudge Report posted stories about the drone newspaper carriers as fact. The story originated http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3850 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3850 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:10:00 -0400 The Toronto Star was "technically correct" but misled readers in some reports on Kathleen Wynne, the head of the Ontario Leader Party and Ontario's Premier, public editor Kathy English reported this month. English pointed to three news reports describing http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3841 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3841 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 UK prosecutors have charged the Sun's deputy editor Geoff Webster, accusing him of approving two payments to public officials a few years ago, the Guardian reported. The Crown Prosecution Service's statement about the charges explains the specifics behind the charges: "The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3833 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3833 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:00:00 -0400 Salt Lake City TV news KUTV made an on-air caption error, Jim Romenesko reported. In a March 27 segment, the CBS affiliate showed a picture of Utah's governor Gary R. Herbert and attorney general with the caption "Gay Couples Sue Utah" referring to lawsuits against the state http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3844 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3844 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:00:00 -0400 Pakistani advocacy group The White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan recently gave awards to 27 of the country's journalists for adhering to its ethics code dictating journalists report sensitively on women. The group's website explains the group's purpose is "involving men to reduce http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3822 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3822 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Georgia and Alexandra Pryce complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the UK Telegraph was harassing their recently imprisoned mother, Vicky Pryce, by photographing her in prison. Both the Daily Mail and the Telegraph claimed that the published photographs of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3836 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3836 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Did Korean Central News Agency doctor a photo to make it look like North Korea had more hovercraft practicing in a military drill? It appears so. The North Korean government owns and runs the Korean Central News Agency, according to Mondo Times. The Atlantic reported March 26 that http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3845 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3845 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 San Jose, California daily newspaper The Mercury News fessed up this week to being hoaxed by a joke tweet claiming that President Barack Obama was going to lend a soccer player Air Force One. The errors began when 1500ESPN.com's Dana Wessel tweeted March 26: Obama to Landon http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3842 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3842 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 An on-air graphic from Lexington, Kentucky NBC-affiliate Lex18 reported: "5 arrested in math lab bust." Wait, a MATH lab? Were the perpetrators misusing pi? Making illegal shortcuts on their long division? Nope! Lex18 meant to say meth lab in its on-air report, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3843 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3843 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:25:00 -0400 With the Supreme Court considering two cases involving same-sex marriage, it may be useful to review how opposed the public might be to decisions that would strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in that state. While most http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3840 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3840 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:00:00 -0400 Even though complainants in the U.K. found the Observer's column about transgender people was "offensive," the Press Complaints Commission ruled that the column didn't break the PCC's Editors Code. As iMediaEthics has written, in a January column, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3839 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3839 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:15:00 -0400 Fake "political, anti-Semitic and comical" tweets were posted by hackers on "several BBC Twitter accounts' last week, the Associated Press reported. Hacking group the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack and for posting the tweets which the BBC http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3837 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3837 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The UK Telegraph wrongly reported that actor John Goodman was in the 1980s TV show Cheers. The Telegraph's story said that Goodman "made his name in the 1980s television series Cheers." But, Goodman's IMDB profile confirms that he wasn't cast in http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3828 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3828 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Chinese "state-run" news agency Xinhua published a fake picture purporting to show recently deceased politician Wu Renbao on the cover of Time magazine, South China Morning Post reported. The Communist Party of China owns Xinhua, according to Mondo Times. Xinhua's March http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3835 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3835 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The UK police decided not to prosecute Sky News' Gerard Tubb for hacking the email account of John Darwin, a man accused of faking his own death, The Guardian reported. Darwin faked his death so his wife could get the life insurance money. Darwin later went to the UK police and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3831 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3831 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 A slew of media outlets -- from NBC's Nightly News to ABC's Good Morning America -- were hoaxed by a fake video apparently showing a pig swimming to help a goat. The New York Times, which exposed the video as a hoax , explained "the video was thoroughly staged" http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3810 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3810 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Madison Roberts, a reporter for the University of Alabama's student newspaper The Crimson White, was fired for making up "nearly 30" sources in the past two and a half months, according to its own report on her extensive fabrication. The newspaper has since unpublished http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3834 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3834 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:00:00 -0400 A college newspaper is again the subject of a libel lawsuit. The Oswegonian, State University of New York-Oswego's "only independent, not for profit, student run newspaper," is being sued for libel after it wrongly identified local city councilor Michael Todd as "a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3826 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3826 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall apologized after the Washington Post discovered that her forthcoming book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants, co-written by Gail Hudson, fails to attribute "at least a dozen passages." According to the Post, its book reviewer http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3832 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3832 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:10:00 -0400 The UK Metro has unpublished a Jan. 21 article containing a fake quote about the possibility of a Neanderthal clone baby. As iMediaEthics has written, many media outlets misquoted Harvard genetic professor George Church after he was interviewed by Der Spiegel in January. Fake quotes http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3829 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3829 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 A recent article from "Congressional news site" The Hill claims that voters are more likely to trust the Democratic Party than the Republican Party on budget matters, andldquo;even though a strong majority actually prefer Republican fiscal policies.andrdquo; Moreover, although the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3830 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3830 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:00:00 -0400 At least four U.S. media outlets named a 16-year-old rape victim this week. MSNBC, Fox News, CBS-affiliate WTRF and CNN aired the girl's name in coverage of the high-profile rape case in Steubenville, Ohio. Football players Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3827 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3827 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:30:00 -0400 Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead joined "many readers" in complaining about the newspaper's March 18 front page photo of a teenage figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond. Osmond, 17, is pictured kicking her leg up in the air above her head. "I agree with them that it was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3825 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3825 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The Washington Post's Delia Lloyd thought full-figured Swedish mannequins were a hoax. But the mannequins are real, and the Washington Post tacked on a correction to her March 16 blogpost. Lloyd had blogged about "a photo of two 'plus-sized' mannequins" and the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3824 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3824 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:00:00 -0400 Four journalists from the Trinity Mirror newspaper company were arrested in the UK last week and accused of phone hacking. "The arrests are the first involving allegations of phone-hacking at Trinity Mirror," according to Press Gazette. The four arrested have http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3821 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3821 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The Times of London admitted in its March 18 edition that its "exclusive" story that there was going to be a Dream Football League with a 2015 tournament in Qatar was "wrong." In a report (partially blocked by a subscription paywall), the Times of London said its reporter http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3823 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3823 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:45:00 -0400 Ethics in journalism took another blow in Russia last month when the country's Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Alexei Volin, told journalism students and lecturers that reporting wasn't a "mission" but a "business" and that they should do what their http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3809 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3809 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was charged March 14 "for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group 'Anonymous' to hack into and alter a Tribune Company website" -- charges that, if proven, could lead to prison-time and hundreds of thousands of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3820 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3820 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:15:00 -0400 Last month, Bag News Notes, self-described as a "progressive site dedicated to visual politics and the analysis of news images," accused Magnum Photo Agency's photographer Paolo Pellegrin of plagiarism and errors in his award-winning submission to the World Press Photo and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3792 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3792 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a phony story claiming that armed dolphins with "firearms attached to their heads" were on the run. The story claimed that "three of the Ukrainian navy's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3816 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3816 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:45:00 -0400 The New York Daily News and New York Post had conflicting reports about a teacher and her alleged affair with a student, as iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week. Namely, the daily tabloids couldn't agree on the age of the student, with the Daily News reporting he was 18 and the Post http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3817 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3817 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 The Times of London denied that it was hoaxed by a French satire article, but the evidence against the paper looks pretty solid. The Times' Oliver Kay reported in an "exclusive" March 13 story, "Sheikhs shake world game with plan for Dream Football League", http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3819 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3819 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:05:00 -0400 Last week I blogged about the ABC Washington Post poll on the sequester, citing with approval Matthew Yglesias' characterization of the article reporting the results as andldquo;deeply misleading.andrdquo; Patrick J. Moynihan, a former senior polling analyst at ABC News, tweeted that my http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3818 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3818 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:50:00 -0400 The Dorchester Reporter has hired a temporary ombudsman tasked to "review" the weekly Boston newspaper's reporting on a specific election because the editor's wife and daughter-in-law of the owner, Linda Dorcena Forry, is a candidate. This move was made in order to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3743 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3743 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 iMediaEthics finds it frustrating that New York daily tabloids frequently present glaring contradictory facts that are rarely corrected. As an example, check out battling news stories from The New York Daily News and The New York Post. The topic: A now-fired Bronx science teacher http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3813 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3813 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0400 Is the New York Post's front-page photo a fake? Yes, at least in part. However, unless you took a magnifying glass to today's newspaper, you'd miss that the doctored photo is labeled a "Post Photo Composite." The image of Gilberto Valle, the so-called http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3814 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3814 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:55:00 -0400 Fox News has owned up and disclosed to readers that it included bad information in a Jan. 21 post about Harvard University geneticist George Church, but a few media outlets still have fake quotes published on their websites. As iMediaEthics wrote earlier this year, Church called out the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3811 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3811 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Breitbart.com unpublished a story after being hoaxed by a satire site's story that had claimed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was bankrupt, according to Slate. Media Matters posted a screenshot of the post by Breitbart.com editor Larry O'Connor, which criticized Krugman, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3812 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3812 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:00:00 -0400 UK police arrested someone for identifying an alleged sexual offense victim in a tweet, the Guardian reported. In this case, the tweeter reportedly named a girl who was allegedly a victim of actor Michael Le Vell, who is "accused of 19 child sex offences," http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3793 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3793 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 A student at Florida A andamp; M University has sued two Florida media outlets -- Florida A andamp; M University's The Famuan and ABC-affiliate WFTV -- for wrongly reporting that he was disciplined because of fellow student Robert Champion's 2011 hazing death. And even though The Famuan, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3764 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3764 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 Vanity Fair unpublished a blogpost critical of actress Jessica Chastain because "it ran counter to what a number of people at the magazine believed," Vanity Fair spokesperson Beth Kseniak told Deadline.com. While Sony Pictures and Chastain's representatives denied the article http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3798 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3798 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0400 iMediaEthics' coverage of the NY Daily News's "exclusive" photo of Bashid Mclean, who was photographed holding the severed head of his mother, Tanya Byrd, included significant gaffes by several other news outlets. Leading the way in our round-up of reporting foul-ups is http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3806 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3806 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:00:00 -0400 In what is being called a "landmark case," the Irish Daily Mail must pay Denis O'Brien, who controls Irish media group Independent News and Media, andeuro;150,000 in damages for libeling him in a 2010 article. The article in question "criticised his appearance" in TV http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3785 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3785 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve said anyone posting photos of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson could be charged with contempt for violating an injunction -- even if the photos aren't actually of the men. And Russell Hayes from the Attorney General's office told iMediaEthics by email http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3788 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3788 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Two recent polls come to contradictory conclusions about the public's willingness to accept spending cuts imposed by the sequestration that went into effect March 1. A Pew poll last month reported that among 19 government programs tested, not one elicited majority public http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3803 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3803 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:15:00 -0500 The UK Press Complaints Commission ruled that the Kent and Sussex Courier, a local newspaper in Tunbridge Wells, UK, shouldn't have sent an undercover reporter into a doctor's office. The Courier's August 2012 story "Saleswoman who targeted doctor's patients and poor is http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3787 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3787 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 The New York Daily News scored a coup with its "exclusive" photo of Bashid Mclean holding the severed head of his mother, Tanya Byrd. Mclean has been charged by New York City police with "second-degree murder and two felonies related to the improper disposal of her http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3800 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3800 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0500 Fox News claimed that plagiarizing two sentences -- or 50 words -- from a Politico story on the sequestration was just a "reporting error." Jim Romenesko, who spotted the plagiarism, reported that Fox News unpublished the March 1 article and replaced it with an "Editor's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3801 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3801 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Was the UK Daily Mail hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be Bashid Mclean, the New York man who is accused of murdering and dismembering his mother, Tanya Byrd? In a story about a photo Mclean reportedly took of himself holding his mother's severed head, The Mail reported http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3799 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3799 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:45:00 -0500 Did a firefighter act like a super hero and lift a fire truck with one hand? Apparently, a caption writer for NBC News thinks so. Here is the larger screen shot view of the AP photo on NBC News' website. The bad caption claim --that the firefighter is holding up the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3797 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3797 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Is it OK for the news media to use a 14-year-old's photo from Facebook in reports about the minor's death? That question is circulating in Bolivian media after a 14-year-old was killed by fireworks at a football match, according to blog Global Voices Online. Journalist Fabiola http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3780 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3780 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:00:00 -0500 Book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it will yank Jonah Lehrer's 2010 book How We Decide from the shelves, Michael Moynihan reported for the Daily Beast. Moynihan exposed Lehrer's fabrication in his 2012 book Imagine, as iMediaEthics wrote last summer. In that case, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3790 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3790 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:25:00 -0500 After criticism that its Feb. 25 cover image was "stereotypical," racist and offensive, Bloomberg Businessweek editor-in-chief Josh Tyrangiel told Yahoo News "we regret" the decision to run it, adding that: "If we had to do it over again, we'd do it http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3796 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3796 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:15:00 -0500 Rutgers University "satirical fake news" paper The Medium apologized Feb. 27 for an article "written in a cruel, debasing manner that does not reflect the values or goals of our organization." The article's headline,"Alpha Chi Omega to Shut Down," tied http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3791 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3791 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Two New York newspapers published a "stomach-turning photo" of Bashid Mclean, a New York man who is accused of dismembering his mother. In the photograph, Mclean is mugging for the camera and holding the head of his mother, Tanya Byrd. McLean has been charged this week "with http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3795 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3795 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 As iMediaEthics wrote yesterday, the Washington Post announced the newspaper was replacing its ombudsman position with a readers representative. Notably, instead of being independent, the readers representative will be a Post employee, the announcement from Post publisher Katharine Weymouth http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3794 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3794 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:50:00 -0500 ESPN site Grantland questioned Sony Music's Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis' claim of fact checking in his recently published memoir. Davis' book, The Soundtrack of My Life, described what he said happened in the production of some of Kelly Clarkson's music. Shortly http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3774 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3774 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Ever wonder why a National Public Radio transcript might not match what you heard on a program? NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos reported in a recent blogpost that NPR's versions of news programs like Weekend Edition are "edited and changed" when airing on "various http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3775 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3775 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:00:00 -0500 The Washington Post announced today that it won't replace Patrick Pexton, whose two-year term as ombudsman ended yesterday, with another ombudsman. Instead, the newspaper plans to "appoint a reader representative shortly to address our readers' concerns and questions." As http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3789 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3789 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:50:00 -0500 As iMediaEthics wrote this past weekend, Falkland Islands' only newspaper, the weekly Penguin News, published a fake interview purporting to be with Argentina's foreign minister, Handeacute;ctor Timerman. The Penguin News' managing editor Lisa Watson explained the interview, which http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3777 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3777 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:00:00 -0500 NBC has responded to George Zimmerman's lawsuit arguing that it "fairly and accurately reported" on him in its stories on his killing Trayvon Martin last year, the Orlando Sentinel reported. As iMediaEthics reported, Zimmerman filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC in http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3784 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3784 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Bradley Manning has long been suspected as WikiLeaks' source for thousands of U.S. government documents including the so-called Afghan War Diaries and Iraq War Diaries. And Manning confirmed those suspicions today when he "confessed in open court" to willingly providing http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3786 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3786 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:00:00 -0500 Cherokee Scout editor Robert Horne resigned this week just days after apologizing for trying to obtain the gun records of local residents, Jim Romenesko reported. The request was for "all Cherokee County County residents who applied for and or have received a concealed carry http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3783 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3783 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 A Washington Post photographer submitted a photo that had been Photoshopped to hide a person in the background of the image to the White House News Photographers Association's annual awards. The un-altered photograph had originally been published in the Washington Post last http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3781 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3781 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 French news agency Agence France-Presse said its photo Twitter account @AFPphoto was hacked Feb. 26 by a Syrian group. In a press release published by Editor andamp; Publisher, the AFP announced the hack and warned its followers about any questionable tweets. The press release reads in http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3782 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3782 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:15:00 -0500 Iran's Fars News Agency Photoshopped an image of Michelle Obama to cover up her bare shoulders. The New York Times describes Fars as "close to Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps." The actual photograph showed the first lady wearing a sparkling, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3779 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3779 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:00:00 -0500 After being called out by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, New York Times' conservative columnist David Brooks added a "postscript" to his column on the sequester to admit that one of his points wasn't "fair to suggest." Klein published a Q andamp; A with http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3776 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3776 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Satire site The Onion apologized today for its "senseless, humorless comment" about Quvenzhane Wallis, who was a nominee for last night's Best Actress award at the Oscars. As Gossip Cop reported, last night The Onion tweeted the "c-word" about the 9-year-old star of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3778 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3778 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:20:00 -0500 This is the first in a new series from iMediaEthics called Ask iMediaEthics. iMediaEthics will feature interesting case studies in response to our readers' requests for help or advice related to media ethics or standards. In this report, a reader asked iMediaethics for help in getting http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3740 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3740 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Falkland Islands newspaper the Penguin News made up an interview with Argentine Foreign Minister Handeacute;ctor Timerman, the Knight Center for Journalism in Americas reported. The made-up interview was published in the Feb. 8 edition of the paper, which identifies itself as a weekly http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3772 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3772 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 British television illusionist Derren Brown has denied a newspaper's report that he will turn a straight man gay on live television. How did the the newspaper get the story so wrong? iMediaEthics learned that Brown's "exclusive" interview with the the monthly http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3770 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3770 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:30:00 -0500 The Washington Post's outgoing ombudsman Patrick Pexton addressed two different cases of how the newspaper has sensitively handled reporting on Native Americans in a Feb. 8 post. In one case, the Post cut a story and photo about a school swim team because the photo pictured http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3749 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3749 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 The UK Daily Mirror was fined andpound;1,200 after breaking the UK Sexual Offences Act 1992 with its 2011 story naming a sexual assault victim, the Guardian reported. According to the Press Gazette, the Mirror's story was about the court date for the person who was accused of the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3771 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3771 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:00:00 -0500 Bangkok, Thailand newspaper the Daily News named and photographed a victim of gang rape, but later took down the identifying information. The victim was a Scottish woman "on holiday...with her boyfriend," according to the UK Daily Record, which didn't name her "for legal http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3769 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3769 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:20:00 -0500 The UK Telegraph removed information from its online version of a story about a suicide after a suicide prevention group filed a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission, according to a recent resolution report on the PCC's website. The Telegraph's Dec. 3, 2012 article http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3766 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3766 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:45:00 -0500 The New York Times plans to include more diversity in its future issues of T: The Times Style Magazine, the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan reported. According to Sullivan, the magazine was criticized for featuring "overwhelmingly white" people, but the magazine's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3765 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3765 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:45:00 -0500 iMediaEthics wrote earlier this month about Washingtonian's reporting that the end of the Washington Post's ombudsman's office might be near. At the bottom of the Washingtonian's story was a note referencing some sort of quoting error, but it wasn't quite clear what http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3767 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3767 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 It looks like the Washington Post's ombudsman office might actually end up "empty" after all. As iMediaEthics wrote earlier this month, Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt indicated in an interview with The Washingtonian that the ombudsman position would be changing, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3763 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3763 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 In a recent talk to graduate journalism students, Bruce Winges, editor of the Beacon Journal, an Akron, Ohio daily newspaper, advocated that ethical discussions be made after group discussion, according to a report on Kent State University's journalsim school's website. http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3762 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3762 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:10:00 -0500 A New York District Judge ruled that it was a violation of copyright law for Agence France-Presse and the Washington Post to distribute photos that it found on Twitter "for commercial use," Reuters reported. Photographer Daniel Morel sued both news outlets for using his photos http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3738 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3738 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Fast Forward Weekly apologized after learning one of its art reviews of a photography exhibition was plagiarized from an exhibition essay for the exhibition's gallery. The now unpublished article was a "review of Contemporary Cowboy, a photographic exhibition at http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3761 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3761 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 The Italian magazine Chi won't be alone in publishing the pregnant bikini photos of Kate Middleton on vacation in Mustique. The Australian magazine Woman's Day said it plans to publish the photos, the Guardian reported. Woman's Day editor Fiona Connolly defended the photos http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3760 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3760 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 The Knight Foundation paid $20,000 for Jonah Lehrer to speak about his plagiarism and fabrication scandal earlier this week. As iMediaEthics has written, last summer Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker and was fired from Wired after numerous examples of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3758 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3758 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:00:00 -0500 The Daily Mail's website unpublished a story and photos about actress Evan Rachel Wood's ultrasound after Wood complained on Twitter. According to Wood's tweets, she wasn't flaunting the photo around for photographers to see; the photos of her ultrasound were taken by http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3759 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3759 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:15:00 -0500 According to a recent article in the New York Times, the city's bike riders are anxious about the future of bike lanes in the post-Bloomberg era. The andldquo;cycling havenandrdquo; created by Mayor Bloomberg's expansion of bike lanes may lead to a andldquo;reckoning,andrdquo; with perhaps a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3757 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3757 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:45:00 -0500 Did Iranian news site Khouz News publish a Photoshopped picture of a fighter jet above snow-covered mountains? Some in Iran say so, France 24 reported. The photo of the jet apparently came from an "unveiling" earlier this month, while the mountainous background looks like a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3756 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3756 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Mayor Jay Obernolte was interviewed by CNN's Wolf Blitzer last night about the search for former Los Angeles police office Chris Dorner. But, after that interview, CNN's live blog said that the network didn't interview the mayor and deleted Obernolte's comments, as http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3755 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3755 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:30:00 -0500 Yesterday, CNN deleted information from its live blog on the search for former Los Angeles police officer Chris Dorner and said that it found out the interview had been with someone posing as the mayor of Big Bear Lake, Jay Obernolte, as iMediaEthics reported. But, today, CNN tells http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3754 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3754 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:00:00 -0500 The UK Royal Family's spokesperson accused Italian weekly magazine Chi of "a clear breach of the couple's right to privacy" after it published photos of pregnant Kate Middleton in a bikini on vacation, the Guardian reported. While Middleton has been much photographed http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3753 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3753 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500 The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering a $45 three-week online class on journalism ethics for "journalists currently working in Latin America and the Caribbean." The English-language class is "designed to teach journalists to approach ethical http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3747 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3747 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 CNN was hoaxed by someone posing as Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte, according to a note on its live blog coverage of the police manhunt for Christopher Dorner in the San Bernardino Mountains. Dorner is the former "Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing three people -- including http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3752 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3752 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:25:00 -0500 iMediaEthics wrote earlier today about the Washington Post's correction after being duped by a satire story claiming Sarah Palin would be working for Al Jazeera. As we explained, the Post's story - by Suzi Parker - was based on a post by the satire site Daily Currant, which http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3751 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3751 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:00:00 -0500 Shortly after Mediaite called the Washington Post out for being duped by a satire site, the Post scrubbed references to phony quotes and information claiming Sarah Palin had been hired by Al Jazeera America. The headline of Suzi Parker's story for the Post was also changed http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3750 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3750 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:35:00 -0500 In his recent commentary in the New York Times on the 2012 election, Thomas Edsall notes andldquo;the persistence of racial resentmentandrdquo; among American voters. While one would be hard-pressed to deny that general conclusion, it is unfortunate that Edsall buys into a flawed report that http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3748 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3748 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 With about two weeks remaining on Washington Post's ombudsman Patrick Pexton's two-year term, the newspaper has yet to announce what it plans to do. According to a Feb. 6 report from The Washingtonian, the Post is considering changes to the ombudsman role, which it has http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3746 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3746 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Gertrude Stein famously said "there is no there." Similar thought? The Smoking Gun, which describes itself as a site publishing "exclusive documents" including those from "court files nationwide," published photos and excerpts from personal emails without, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3745 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3745 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:00:00 -0500 The daily newspaper The Hong Kong Economic Journal has already apologized to readers over a Jan. 29 commentary piece, but the subject of that article, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, wants the article -- which he says is defamatory -- retracted, the South China Morning Post http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3744 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3744 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:00:00 -0500 The name huckster alone should give one pause. And now there's Hukkster, self-described as tracking "your favorite products online and lets you know when they go on sale." In a New York Times profile on the company, an enthusiastic user named Jen Hughes was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3741 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3741 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:50:00 -0500 Dallas-Fort Worth NBC-affiliate KXAS apologized Feb. 2 for an insensitive Facebook post promoting a news story about a "Fort Hood soldier [who] was fatally shot after his friend tried to cure him of the hiccups by scaring him with a loaded gun." KXAS wrote "BOOops" in its http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3725 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3725 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:00:00 -0500 A few days after The New Republic tweeted and then deleted a fake photo of President Obama skeet shooting, the White House released an actual photo of the president skeet shooting. But, some are claiming that photo is fake too. The photo, tweeted by White House Press http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3739 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3739 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 El Pais ombudsman Tomandagrave;s Delclandoacute;s has responded to the newspaper's high-profile failure in publishing a fake photo purporting to be of Hugo Chavez. As iMediaEthics wrote, the Spanish newspaper apologized for publishing the phony photo that appears to be a screenshot from a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3737 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3737 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:00:00 -0500 A little over a year after the New York Times was called out for a questionable Coca-Cola advertisement that wasn't disclosed as such, the Times published a more transparent advertisement for new FX show The Americans. The Jan. 30 roll-over ad included three likely fake stories in http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3734 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3734 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:45:00 -0500 You see it all the time in wire service photography these days - the un-named figures, prominently displayed but not prominently identified. It's something iMediaEthics has covered in the past, in regards to Occupy Wall Street. A few times. This time, one of those people spoke up - to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3736 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3736 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:45:00 -0500 The Atlantic has announced new "Advertising Guidelines" in light of its much-criticized advertorial for the Church of Scientology, Ad Week reported. As iMediaEthics wrote, in mid-January, The Atlantic unpublished from its website a Scientology advertorial that looked just like a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3729 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3729 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:00:00 -0500 Toronto Star public editor Kathy English responded to crtiicism of Star columnist Rosie DiManno's controversial opening sentence that a victim "lost a womb but gained a penis" in her report on a sexual assault trial. But, when iMediaEthics asked DiManno for more information about http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3728 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3728 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:00:00 -0500 The Telegraph and Guardian reported conflicting information about the employment of the two Australian hoax DJs, Mel Greig and Michael Christian. As iMediaEthics has written, the pair were behind a hoax phone call to Kate Middleton's hospital last month, and the nurse who answered the phone http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3733 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3733 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:00:00 -0500 According to Pew's latest poll, as introduced by Judy Woodruff on the PBS Newshour, andldquo;about one-quarter of Americans trust government to do the right thing always or most of the time. A whopping 73 percent don't.andrdquo; Whopping indeed! Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3732 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3732 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:50:00 -0500 The UK Daily Telegraph paid model Naomi Campbell "undisclosed" damages over its November 3, 2012 fake story, E! Online reported. The story "falsely claimed she was planning an elephant polo match in India for her partner's birthday" and "included criticisms from http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3730 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3730 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:40:00 -0500 The New Republic tweeted a fake photo purporting to show President Obama skeet shooting, the Weekly Standard reported. The Weekly Standard included the text of The New Republic tweet, which has since been deleted, and pointed to its two follow-up tweets, apparently about the error. The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3727 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3727 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 A journalist who paid for a sex video showing a top German actor in bed with two prostitutes has been acquitted of coercion charges that could have seen him jailed. Die Zeit Online reported that journalist Wolf-Ulrich Schuler, who worked for the Hamburg-based tabloid Bildandmdash;the sixth http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3726 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3726 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:20:00 -0500 After learning its Jan. 12 story on the Panama Canal contained plagiarism, The Washington Post apologized and reportedly suspended the reporter, William Booth, for three months. Despite two separate anonymously-sourced stories in the Post itself reporting Booth was suspended, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3717 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3717 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:45:00 -0500 News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and the Times' editor apologized after criticism of the UK Sunday Times' Jan. 27 cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Guardian reported. The cartoon, created by longtime artist Gerald Scarfe, showed the Israeli Prime Minister "wielding a long, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3724 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3724 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:00:00 -0500 Veteran pollster and author David W. Moore presents the 2013 Fifth Annual Top Ten andldquo;Dubious Pollingandrdquo; Awards. Designed as a satirical, though serious look, at some of the most questionable polling practices or results covered by the news media in the past year, this series has included http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3722 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3722 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:30:00 -0500 Penn State University is holding a journalism ethics lecture "Ethics in Journalism: In Theory, In Practice" next month, according to a notice on its website. Philadelphia Inquirer editor and "two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist" Bill Marimow is giving http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3715 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3715 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:35:00 -0500 KFAI's Andy Driscoll posted on his Facebook page Jan. 22 a fake photo that showed what appeared to be three drones flying over the packed Mall in Washington D.C. during the recent presidential inauguration. The phony photo accompanied the Onion's Jan. 21 satirical post, "Obama http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3721 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3721 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Harvard University genetics professor George M. Church says media reports have fabricated quotes attributed to him. The sensational quotes and reports claimed that Church was looking for a woman to serve as a surrogate to carry a Neanderthal baby. Church did give an http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3719 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3719 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Will El Pais' fake photo of Hugo Chavez end in two lawsuits? As iMediaEthics wrote yesterday, El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, apologized after publishing on its front page and online a photo of a man with a tube in his mouth. The man in the photograph looked to be in a hospital http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3720 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3720 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Time made a ton of changes and added one whopper of a correction at the bottom of its Jan. 8 article "Britain's Class Divide: Can Oxbridge Solve its Privilege Problem?" By iMediaEthics' count, the correction amounted to 560 words. For comparison's sake, the article itself http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3707 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3707 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Daily Spanish newspaper El Pais ran a fake photo of Venezuelan president Hugo Chandaacute;vez on its front page and briefly online, the Guardian reported. According to Mondo Times, El Pais has a "circulation of about 2.1 million." The photo shows a close-up of a man's face http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3718 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3718 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:30:00 -0500 Harper's Magazine has owned up to being tricked by a satire story by releasing corrections online, in print, and on Twitter. But, in response to its error, some of the magazine's tweets fell flat and were misinterpreted as critical of the satirists. In its February 2013 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3713 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3713 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:00:00 -0500 Newspaper The Sunday People apologized and announced it's paying Roger Moore "damages and legal costs" after its touted September interview with Moore turned out to be a hoax, the Press Gazette reported. The fake interview focused on Moore, who played James Bond in several http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3714 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3714 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:30:00 -0500 A controversial column on transgender people that ran in The Observer and was later removed from its website has led to an apology from the newspaper, a protest, hundreds of readers' complaints and now a Press Complaints Commission investigation. As The Observer's sister http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3712 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3712 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:30:00 -0500 Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles is holding a forum on "Media Ethics and Social Responsibility" according to an event notice on its website. The free event is Feb. 25. The forum asks: "Why is it, more than 40 years after Title IX and with some http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3710 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3710 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:00:00 -0500 National Public Radio updated its stylebook guidelines for the President of the United States Jan. 17 after complaints of bias, NPR's ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos reported. At the heart of the issue was whether NPR should call Barack Obama on second reference Mr. Obama, President http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3709 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3709 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 The Journal News' may be making face-saving excuses about why it took down identifications of gun permit holders but its actions are clear. The New York newspaper's controversial gun map now shows a bunch of almost meaningless dots but no names of who owns guns and where they http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3711 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3711 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:00:00 -0500 The Atlantic apologized this week and unpublished a Jan. 14 advertorial promoting Scientology. The advertorial -- an article in the style of a news article -- was titled "David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone Year: Under ecclesiastical leader David Miscavige, the Scientology http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3708 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3708 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:00:00 -0500 A New York Times caption mixed up Denzel Washington's wife and daughter in a Reuters photo. The Times originally called the woman standing next to Washington on the Golden Globes red carpet his wife, but it was really his daughter Olivia. A note at the bottom of the caption http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3706 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3706 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:00:00 -0500 The Chicago Tribune's advertisement for a stage production of The Book of Mormon drew criticism from at least one reader for questionable journalism ethics. In a Jan. 7 Letter to the Editor, reader Barry Schrader, who identified himself as a "former newspaper editor," http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3703 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3703 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 After NBC's David Gregory showed a "30-round gun magazine" last month on Meet the Press, there was some debate and an investigation over whether he would be charged for violating D.C. law on how many rounds a magazine can have. The magazine was empty, and used by Gregory http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3702 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3702 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:00:00 -0500 How could the New York Post have mixed up the infamous former Rep. Anthony Weiner with an Andrew Wiener, a man with a completely different name, in its Jan 10 story? New York Magazine's Kevin Roose fact checked the the New York Post's Jan. 10 story that claimed the disgraced former http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3705 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3705 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:55:00 -0500 The Standard was not the only media outlet to get tangled up in the Mike Tyson sex change story. SpyGhana, which describes itself as "Ghana's leading general news and information destination online," also reported on the hoax story as if it were true, Business Insider http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3700 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3700 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:15:00 -0500 Zimbabwe newspaper The Standard ran a story claiming that Mike Tyson was having a sex change. But, after news outlets including the BBC called them out for being hoaxed, The Standard denied that it had been tricked and claimed it was in on the joke. As NBC Sports reported, The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3690 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3690 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:30:00 -0500 In the aftermath of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., several polls (Pew, CNN, Huffington Post, Gallup, and Rasmussen) suggest there has been an increase in support for stricter regulation of gun ownership, but with a substantial minority of the public still http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3704 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3704 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0500 METHODOLOGY STATEMENT AND TOPLINE This poll is part of a series of PollCheck surveys, designed by iMediaEthics and conducted by SurveyUSA, to andldquo;fact checkandrdquo; the results of other polls. Other PollCheck surveys can be found here. They include a previous poll on gun control http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3701 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3701 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:55:00 -0500 Media Spy apologized for and unpublished a December 11 story after it published a fake interview with an actor accused of child sexual assault. The Australian media news outlet and its reporter Andrew Jaffrey each issued statements about the hoax because of which Media Spy published http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3698 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3698 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:55:00 -0500 ESPN apologized Jan. 8 for comments made by the network's Brent Musburger about the girlfriend of a football player shown during the Jan. 7 Notre Dame- University of Alabama football game, ABC News reported. Musburger called Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron's girlfriend, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3693 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3693 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:35:00 -0500 andldquo;A Senior administration officialandrdquo; and andldquo;some in the mediaandrdquo; were key sources ABC News used to both undermine and defend the much publicized recommendations soon to be made by the federal task force on curbing guns, which Vice President Joe Biden will place on http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3699 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3699 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:00:00 -0500 The unraveling of a plagiarism scandal that cost Toronto District School Board's director of education Chris Spence his job started with his plagiarism in a Toronto Star editorial. As the Star revealed in one of its reports on Spence's plagiarism, the Star's public editor Kathy http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3697 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3697 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:00:00 -0500 Even though some news outlets, including The People, have named the New Delhi, India rape victim who died late last month, many Indian news outlets still won't do so. And the father of the victim denies The People's claims that he OK'ed the identification of his http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3696 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3696 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:00:00 -0500 With all the media attention given to the so-called fiscal cliff crisis at the turn of the year, you might think that most people would have strong opinions either for or against the final agreement. But a new Pew poll finds that the vast majority of Americans were largely unengaged on the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3694 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3694 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0500 In the ongoing case against Private Bradley Manning, a military prosecutor, Capt. Angel Overgaard, revealed that if the New York Times had first received the restricted government documents leaked by Manning, instead of Wikileaks, that he would still be facing criminal charges. http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3695 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3695 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:45:00 -0500 The White Plains Journal News hired "armed security personnel at two of its offices" amidst threats against the newspaper and its staff for its December report identifying which local residents have gun permits, the New York Times reported. As iMediaEthics has written, the Journal http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3686 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3686 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:50:00 -0500 Commentary A New York City tabloid has again stooped low by publishing invasive stories on Suri Cruise, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. iMediaEthics has previously called out the Daily News for its speculative, source-less reporting in July on Suri crying. In that http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3692 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3692 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:35:00 -0500 A new poll is being advertised as one that andldquo;convinces House Republicans they can win on the debt limit.andrdquo; House Speaker John Boehner announced the results of the Winston Group poll to his party colleagues in the House, noting that 60% of Americans said they oppose increasing the debt http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3691 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3691 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:45:00 -0500 The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz apologized to Fox News' Greta Van Susteren after misquoting her as joking that Hillary Clinton's recent hospitalization was an "immaculate concussion." That comment was made by Laura Ingraham, not Van Susteren. Van Susteren had called for http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3683 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3683 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 What happened to Jared Diamond's libel lawsuit where he was sued by two Papua New Guinea tribesmen in 2009? Diamond falsely claimed in an article by Robin McKie published in The Observer on Jan. 5, 2013, that the case was dismissed. In fact, as documents show, the case was voluntarily http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3689 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3689 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0500 Nancy Pelosi's office doctored a photograph picturing the Democratic women in Congress but argues it's OK because it shows all of the women, even if they weren't all there for the photo. A comparison of Pelosi's version of the photo with another photo shows the phony picture http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3688 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3688 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:00:00 -0500 In light of reader criticism of reporting on December's Connecticut school shootings, two public editors -- NPR's Edward Schumacher-Matos and the New York Times' Margaret Sullivan -- assessed their outlets' reporting and emphasized the need for accuracy. As iMediaEthics has http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3684 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3684 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:00:00 -0500 Zee News scored an exclusive interview with the "only witness" to the December gang rape of a woman in a New Delhi bus. The unnamed woman died in a Singapore hospital last week. The witness, a male friend of the woman who was with her and beaten during the attack, criticized http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3687 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3687 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 George Will commented last month on ABC's This Week Sunday that andldquo;Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It's old people.andrdquo; Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, a conservative website devoted to andldquo;exposing and combating liberal media bias,andrdquo; took http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3685 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3685 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0500 Playwright Jon Robin Baitz complained after the New York Times "egregiously misquoted" him in a front-page story last month on fellow playwright David Mamet. The misquote, which has since been corrected, made readers think Baitz "publicly slammed another playwright," http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3682 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3682 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:45:00 -0500 Pakistan's University of the Punjab is hosting a Global Media Ethics conference March 13 and 14. According to an announcement on the conference's website, its "main objectives" include: "To provide a platform for debates on various current issues regarding http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3681 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3681 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 The Globe and Mail will now run its print corrections on "page 2 of the front section, rather than wherever the error appeared," Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead announced. Stead, who wrote recently about some of the more interesting corrections the newspaper published in http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3680 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3680 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:00:00 -0500 Journalists including New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan were tricked by a phony Twitter account posing as author Philip Roth, the New York Observer reported. Sullivan later tweeted about having "mistook" the spoof tweeter "for the real thing." The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3679 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3679 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:40:00 -0500 Local TV sports anchor Randy Shaver and his news director Jane Helmke defended against any possible conflict of interest in Shaver's holding fundraisers at local sports events, according to the Star Tribune. Shaver, from Minnesota NBC-affiliate KARE11, "has helped raise over http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3678 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3678 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:45:00 -0500 Billionaire, millionaire, same difference? Agence France Presse misidentified former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a "multi-billionaire" when he's really just a multi-millionaire. The error was made in the AFP's Dec. 23 article on comments by Romney's son http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3676 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3676 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:25:00 -0500 Der Spiegel apologized after reporting former U.S. president George H. W. Bush had died. Bush has been in the hospital recently but just "moved from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room," the Guardian noted Bush's spokesperson said. The German-language http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3677 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3677 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:00:00 -0500 Six years ago, Lance Armstrong won a libel lawsuit after the UK Sunday Times over its accusations he took performance-enhancing drugs. Following the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's "lifetime ban" of Armstrong because of an investigation into the alleged use of those drugs, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3673 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3673 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:00:00 -0500 Norman P. Lewis, assistant professor in journalism for University of Florida, writes about a lesser-known form of plagiarism in his paper, andldquo;Idea Plagiarism: Journalism's Ultimate Heist.andrdquo; Dr. Lewis states: andldquo;Concealing the sources of ideas misleads the public about the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3674 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3674 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:00:00 -0500 The Toronto Star averaged close to two corrections a day this year. Star public editor Kathy English told iMediaEthics that in total, the Star ran 695 corrections - 415 print, 280 online only. According to English's report on the year's errors, the Canadian daily http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3675 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3675 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 Mediaite misidentified Randi Zuckerberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's brother in a story about a private photo of the Zuckerberg family that went public. Randi is Mark's sister, as iMediaEthics pointed out to Mediaite in a Dec. 28 email seeking a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3672 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3672 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:00:00 -0500 Igniting much controversy, the White Plains Journal News, a daily newspaper in White Plains, N.Y., published a list and map detailing which local residents had gun permits and giving out their addresses. The White Plains Journal News, which according to Mondo Times has a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3671 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3671 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:55:00 -0500 10) CNBC hoaxed by email interview about NBA Escorts Seven months after his story claiming escort services were financially suffering because of the 2011 National Basketball Association lockout, CNBC's Darren Rovell apologized, corrected, and explained he was "duped by a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3669 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3669 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:00:00 -0500 Three recent polls show how convoluted the debate can become over what the public thinks about banning semi-automatic weapons. All three polls were conducted in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook School shootings, and all three come to different conclusions as to how much public support there http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3670 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3670 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:00:00 -0500 Check out iMediaEthics' most popular stories published this year. Ranking was determined based on unique visits as measured by Google Analytics. 10) Inside the Drake-Chris Brown Fake Video: Interview with the Hoaxer In mid-June, the entourages of Drake and Chris Brown got into http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3667 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3667 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:00:00 -0500 The New York Post was tricked by a fake Facebook page for Ryan Lanza, the brother of the Adam Lanza, the gunman in the Dec. 16 Connecticut school massacre. Adam Lanza killed 26 adults and children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The New York Post ran a Dec. 23 story based on a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3668 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3668 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0500 10) Fox News Lifts Atlantic Wire Dolphin Story Fox News rewrote without credit an Atlantic Wire article on dolphins earlier this year. After the Atlantic Wire's John Hudson publicized the stolen story, Fox News added an editor's note apologizing and explaining it has replaced the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3666 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3666 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:15:00 -0500 10) New York Times corrects the number of people on Xanax A January correction from the New York Times grabbed our attention for its dramatic statistic reporting that a huge chunk of Americans take Xanax. The Times had originally reported that 46 million people in the United States http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3665 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3665 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:15:00 -0500 The UK Sun's ombudsman told iMediaEthics that the headline "Greedy Bulgars" -- referring to a Bulgarian family -- was only "a humorous play on words." The Bulgarian Embassy in London, however, begs to differ, telling iMediaEthics that it views the headline, "Greedy http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3659 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3659 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:00:00 -0500 The headline for a Mediaite story about a shooting-suicide in a Portland, Oregon shopping mall last week contained a glaring error -- the suspected shooter's name was wrong. The original headline gave the wrong name for the accused shooter, Jacob Tyler Roberts. http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3658 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3658 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:15:00 -0500 Story Highlights Marcy, his source, accused Bruce Porter of lying in Newsweek in 1967. He admits lying to a Michigan journalist about her in 2011. So why is Columbia Journalism Review not telling its readers? Porter to Michigan reporter: "This is probably the worst thing http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3577 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3577 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:50:00 -0500 The Marcy-Bruce Porter connection over 45 years Columbia Journalism Review reporter, Bruce Porter, feigns caring about his source, Marcy, as he exploits her through time. iMediaEthics' latest special investigation unearths the abuses and lies over 45 years. Go to full investigation into http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3638 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3638 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:45:00 -0500 The media made several major errors, including using the wrong photo, naming the wrong shooter, and reporting that the shooter's father was killed in the violence while reporting on the Friday mass shootings at Connecticut school Sandy Hook Elementary School. Below are a sampling of errors http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3663 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3663 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:00:00 -0500 Several recent polls have shown slight majorities of American adults with favorable views of same-sex marriage. The latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll confirms this trend, but also provides evidence that supports iMediaEthics' recent PollCheck survey, which reveals widespread http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3664 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3664 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:05:00 -0500 10) The Sunday Times Runs 2008 Doctored Photo in 2012 (Credit: Sunday Times, screenshot) In July, the News Corp-owned Sunday Times published a not only doctored photo, but also an old photo. The 2008 photo, which showed "missile test-firings," was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3660 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3660 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:45:00 -0500 A recent Gallup news story reported that while 63% of Americans think discrimination against gays and lesbians is a serious problem in the country as a whole, only 42% believe it is difficult for people in their community to live openly as gay or lesbian. This finding rekindles a minor http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3656 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3656 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 Amidst all of the news reports about the tragic mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut school today, a couple of journalism groups pointed to tips on how to report sensitively. The DART Center wrote about the shooting and provided links to its guides on how to report on children and mass http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3662 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3662 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:15:00 -0500 CNN's Matt Dornic told iMediaEthics that the reports that CNN aired the wrong photo of the alleged Connecticut school shooter are false. When iMediaEthics asked about the reports, Dornic said by email: "I saw that photo on Fox News but it did not run on CNN. Someone has their http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3661 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3661 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:30:00 -0500 According to a Dec. 12 retraction, The Jewish Press apologized for a recent blogpost about Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist who completed a prison sentence for mail fraud and tax evasion. The blogpost, which has since been unpublished, "questioned whether or not he was eating http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3657 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3657 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:00:00 -0500 The Globe and Mail was tricked in an online interview, highlighting yet again the dangers of using social media for stories and the realities that sometimes sources lie about the most basic information. According to Sylvia Stead, the Canadian newspaper's public editor who wrote http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3653 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3653 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:30:00 -0500 The Sydney Morning Herald suspended columnist Dr. Tanveer Ahmed earlier this year amidst plagiarism accusations, as iMediaEthics wrote in September. But, three months later, the Herald hasn't told readers "how the paper plans to stop it happening again," Australian media http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3655 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3655 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:45:00 -0500 Mel Greig and Michael Christian of 2Day FM -- the Australian DJs who prank-called Kate Middleton's hospital posing as Queen Elizabeth and Prince William -- publicly apologized yesterday. The apology comes days after the nurse who answered the phone at the hospital, Jacintha Saldanha, was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3654 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3654 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:00:00 -0500 A new poll by Public Policy Polling finds andldquo;record support for legalizing marijuana,andrdquo; with 58% of Americans in favor and 39% opposed. (Kudos to PPP for measuring intensity of opinion. People with strong opinions are evenly divided on the issue: 33% strongly support legalization, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3643 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3643 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:00:00 -0500 The Tampa Bay Times defended and explained its reporting after a story became national news because its source, Gretchen Molannen, committed suicide. The Times reported on Molannen's suicide Dec. 5 noting that she had told the Times, for its Nov. 30 story, that she "attempted http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3649 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3649 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:45:00 -0500 MSNBC edited a guest's joke calling U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham a woman from its "re-air" of Nov. 28's Morning Joe program, Media Bistro's TV Newser reported. The joke, referring to senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Graham, was made by John Heilemann, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3622 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3622 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:05:00 -0500 When a newspaper mistakenly reports the death of a person who is still alive, a prominent correction, at the very least, would seem to be called for. But the Daily Mail determined that its own wrong reporting that a politician's father had died didn't warrant a correction on the online http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3648 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3648 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:30:00 -0500 Fall out from a now high-profile prank phone call from an Australian shock jock radio program has led to two suspensions and an apparent suicide. Australian radio hosts Mel Greig and Michael Christian from 2Day FM called King Edward VII Hospital this past week posing as Prince http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3651 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3651 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:15:00 -0500 Your mother always told you that saying sorry can repair a lot of damage. NBC apparently forgot this important lesson. Lawyers for George Zimmerman, who is charged in the February shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, filed a reckless defamation lawsuit yesterday. His lawsuit http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3652 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3652 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:30:00 -0500 After finding out one its longtime reporters, Karen Jeffrey, had used fake sources in at least 34 of her stories, the Cape Cod Times came clean and apologized to readers on Dec. 4. In an explanatory note published on the Times site, Cape Cod Times' publisher Peter Meyer and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3646 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3646 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Story Highlights Abbasi was closer to the incident than he claimed Abbasi was not running when he was taking pictures Abbasi only moved a few dozen feet between shooting his three published photographs New York Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3647 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3647 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:30:00 -0500 ESPN apparently does not like giving credit where credit is due. Case in point: After ESPN originally credited sports blog Sports by Brooks, which "broke the story" of Louisiana State University's head football coach Les Miles's contract with his school, the sports network http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3644 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3644 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Commentary The decision by The New York Post to run, as a cover image, the photograph of a man about to be killed by a subway train in its Dec. 4, 2012 edition was nothing new under the "Sun." Indeed, it was perfectly in keeping with a tabloid newspaper ethic that has been kept http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3645 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3645 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:35:00 -0500 The National Council for the Training of Journalists held a Journalism Skills conference in late November. At that conference, the council called for "a new ethics module to be included in the Diploma in Journalism," according to its press release on the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3641 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3641 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:00:00 -0500 CNN's typo in a quote about Mitt Romney significantly changed the meaning of the comment, made by billionaire John Catsimatidis. The "typo" is significant since the article is about "financial backers of Romney," including Catsimatidis, who were "still not http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3630 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3630 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:45:00 -0500 Journalism schools are increasingly pushing the "Teaching Hospital" model of learning -- learn by doing, not in a classroom. So with that in mind, I took 15 students from my multimedia journalism class at Stony Brook University's School of Journalism to Occupy Wall Street's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3442 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3442 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 A recent poll from National Journal, a Washington D.C. "news magazine," finds that a majority of the public would support the confirmation of current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, as Secretary of State, if nominated by President Barack Obama. She would http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3642 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3642 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:00:00 -0500 Commentary News media has been awash with debate over the front-page photograph by R. Umar Abbasi in today's New York Post. Abbasi's photograph is of a man, Ki-Suck Han, 38, of Elmhurst, Queens, only moments before he was hit and killed by a subway train. There are a number http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3640 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3640 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:20:00 -0500 Yesterday, December 3, 2012, a tragedy unfolded in the underground subway station near Times Square, in New York. Ki-Suck Han of Queens was allegedly pushed onto the tracks by a deranged man and was struck by on oncoming train and later died of his wounds. A New York Post photographer http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3639 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3639 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:45:00 -0500 A Vermont weekly newspaper questioned a fellow local newspaper's transparency and accountability after finding out that it hired a convicted sex offender to report on police and courts. In a late November report, free independent Burlington weekly Seven Days called out daily Montpelier http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3636 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3636 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:00:00 -0500 USA Today, Reuters, Entertainment Weekly and thousands of other Tumblr blogs were attacked by a worm set up by the Gay N***** Association of America (GNAA) today. Networking company Cisco explains the definition of a worm: "Computer worms are similar to viruses in that they http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3637 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3637 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:50:00 -0500 Television journalists are paid to broadcast the news. Seldom do they actually make the news. But that's exactly what happened last month, on Bangor, Maine's ABC-affiliate WVII, when two broadcast journalists --Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio -- resigned their jobs on the air, citing http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3635 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3635 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead noted that the newspaper's website corrected "an online headline" for a Nov. 28 story about Israel and Palestine because its was inaccurate. But iMediaEthics found that no correction was included with the article. As Stead http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3627 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3627 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:30:00 -0500 Lord Justice Brian Leveson's long-awaited report on the UK press standards and practices was released this past week, but the UK Independent spotted an error it claims Leveson made because of Wikipedia. As the Independent explained, the report lists a person named Brett Straub as one of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3631 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3631 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:30:00 -0500 After Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren's "rocky start" on social media, the New York Times "is assigning an editor on the foreign desk in New York to work closely with Ms. Rudoren on her social media posts," the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan reported Nov. http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3620 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3620 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:00:00 -0500 The UK Press Complaints Commission ruled that it was OK for the Farnham Herald to use information and a photo from an assault victim's Facebook page in a story that identified the victim. The newspaper defended its reporting because the information was posted publicly on Facebook http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3632 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3632 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 05:30:00 -0500 The Tabloid Watch blog highlighted an interesting UK Daily Mail correction this past week. In its corrections column, the Mail explained that it wrongly reported Nov. 27 that both of Parliament member Fiona Bruce's parents were dead, but "in fact," Bruce's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3633 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3633 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 05:00:00 -0500 And yet another apology and financial settlement has been made by a news outlet over sex claims. As iMediaEthics has written, the BBC and ITV have apologized and paid libel settlements in the past month to Lord McAlpine after wrongly suggesting he sexually abused a child. While the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3629 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3629 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:45:00 -0500 About 250 Canadian journalists, bloggers, and others took freebies including gift "swag" bags and food from Ikea at an "exclusive party" Nov. 26, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported. (CBC noted that its journalists didn't attend the event, which http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3628 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3628 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 A New York Times correction on its Nov. 20 article, "Obama, Showing Support for Israel, Gains New Leverage over Netanyahu," was corrected at some point after publication, only to have the correction later go missing. Re-publications of an earlier version of the article carry a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3610 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3610 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:00:00 -0500 After the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland's Compliance Committee called for Irish public broadcaster RTE to publish its "internal report" about its handling of the 2011 Irish presidential debate, one of the two co-authors of that internal report threatened a libel lawsuit, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3626 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3626 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 A year after the first witness spoke at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices, Lord Justice Brian Leveson released his findings in a 1,987-page, Nov. 29 published report. (See all the parts of the report. and Leveson's statement on the report) Leveson's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3624 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3624 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:10:00 -0500 A News International spokesperson sent iMediaEthics the following statement in response to today's Leveson Report: "Statement from Tom Mockridge, Chief Executive Officer, News International "We are grateful to Lord Justice Leveson for his thorough and comprehensive report, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3625 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3625 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:45:00 -0500 Here is the UK Leveson Inquiry Report. We will be reporting more soon. Meanwhile, here is the text from the report's cover: AN INQUIRY INTO THE CULTURE, PRACTICES AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS The Right Honourable Lord Justice LevesonNovember 2012 Volume I Presented to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3623 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3623 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:05:00 -0500 The Associated Press issued a "KILL BULLETIN" Nov. 26 after wrongly reporting that "Google Inc. is paying $400 million" to purchase a company that serves as an "operator of Wi-Fi hotspots in high-traffic locations," NPR reported. The kill notice reads, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3621 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3621 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:00:00 -0500 The post-mortem for Romney's campaign finds many different reasons why he lost. Republican strategist David Frum blames the Republican Party for its extremism and unresponsiveness to the country's domestic problems. Pew Research's retiring president http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3618 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3618 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0500 A Getty Image photo wrongly identifying its subject as Jessica Simpson resulted in an error by the daily newspaper DNA India, iMediaEthics discovered this morning. The Getty photo shows a blonde woman identified as American singer Jessica Simpson, but she is not the woman http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3619 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3619 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:15:00 -0500 The Associated Press removed "homophobia" and "ethnic cleansing" from its stylebook, Politico reported. According to Politico, AP Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn explained, for example, why "homophobia" won't be used: "Homophobia especially http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3617 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3617 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:10:00 -0500 Philly.com apologized after publishing a naked (NSFW-- not suitable for work) photo of a woman's breast, Jim Romenesko reported. According to Romenesko, Philly.com executive producer of entertainment's Leah Kauffman called the "inappropriate" photo's publication http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3616 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3616 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:45:00 -0500 New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan blogged that the caption accompanying the Times' photo of Gaza school girls "could have been clearer and more informative" but wasn't "Orwellian," as the Nation's Greg Mitchell suggested. The photo caption http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3615 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3615 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:00:00 -0500 Chinese newspaper People's Daily reported as fact satire site The Onion's report naming North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un the Sexiest Man Alive, Gawker reported. People's Daily is a daily Beijing-based, Communist Party of China-owned newspaper with a circulation of close to 3 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3613 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3613 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:15:00 -0500 Manipur journalists participated in a "one-day consultative workshop" titled "Media Ethics in the Reporting of Rape Cases," Hueiyen News Service reported. Manipur is a state in India. At the Nov. 24 workshop, All India Radio's News Editor Dr. Aribam Ibomcha Sharma http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3609 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3609 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:15:00 -0500 The Helena Independent Record issued an "Editor's Note" after a copy editor "inserted the term 'allegedly'" in a sentence about U.S. President Barack Obama being born in Hawaii. The Record is a daily Montana newspaper with a circulation of about 12,000 copies, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3612 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3612 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Two months after being set up, Burma's Interim Press Council has "drafted a new 15-point code of ethics" for Burmese journalists, "independent news group" Irrawaddy reported. Tenets of the code relate to "accuracy, unbiased reporting," corrections, anonymous http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3583 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3583 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:10:00 -0500 BBC Radio Stoke apologized for a November report that the Northcliffe Media-owned Sentinel was closing, Hold the Front Page reported. The article was "re-written," Hold the Front Page reported a BBC spokesperson said, noting that "the Sentinel's editor was offered airtime http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3611 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3611 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:00:00 -0500 The Globe and Mail is going to start moderating comments on stories about Gaza before publication after the newspaper's website received a slew of comments that included racism or hate speech, public editor Sylvia Stead reported. Stead wrote in her Nov. 20 blog: "Starting later http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3608 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3608 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:30:00 -0500 Three UK news outlets published corrections or clarifications after Gordon Brown complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission, according to resolution reports on the UK body's website. The UK Telegraph ran clarifications on its Sept. 28 article "Brown's UN briefing http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3599 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3599 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0500 Haaretz's Neri Livneh must pay about $50,000 for her comments in the March 2012 broadcast of the TV program Politics that have been deemed slanderous, the Jewish Press reported. Livneh had said "Itamar is a settlement of especially-aggressive people. Every two years or http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3606 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3606 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:30:00 -0500 "Three prominent journalists" sent Judge James Zagel letters backing William Cellini, the Chicago Tribune reported. There were in total 364 letters "testifying to Cellini's good character and seeking leniency," Chicago Now's Dennis Byrne noted. Cellini was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3547 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3547 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:00:00 -0500 Irish Daily Star editor Michael O'Kane resigned this past week, two months after the newspaper ran topless photos of Kate Middleton, NY Mag reported. The Daily Star's Irish edition published topless photos taken of Middleton (the Duchess of Cambridge) sunbathing on a private http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3607 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3607 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, former News of the World editor and former communications director for UK Prime Minister David Cameron Andy Coulson, former News of the World journalist Clive Goodman and two others were charged in the UK police's investigation into bribery, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3604 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3604 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:45:00 -0500 BBC "Gaza and West Bank Correspondent" Jon Donnison apologized after re-tweeting a photo that wrongly said it showed "children injured" in Gaza when the photo was really from Syria. Donnison's Nov. 19 tweet read: "A photo I retweeted from another journo http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3605 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3605 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0500 ITV agreed to pay Lord McAlpine $200,000 (andpound;125,000) and costs in a settlement for McAlpine's libel claim against the outlet, according to the Hollywood Reporter. As iMediaEthics has written, the BBC settled with retired politician McAlpine for andpound;185,000 (close to $300,000) http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3603 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3603 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:30:00 -0500 As iMediaEthics wrote last month, editors from three South Carolina and Georgia newspapers participated in a September journalism ethics forum hosted by the Beaufort County library. Hilton Head Island Packet Beaufort Gazette editor Jeff Kidd noted in a blogpost that photojournalism http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3600 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3600 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:15:00 -0500 Irish public broadcaster RTE has issued a clarification in its libel settlement with a County Cork, Ireland woman named Mary Philomena Porter, the Irish Times reported. Porter, a "nursing home owner," sued over RTE's Prime Time Investigates Dec. 7, 2009 story on "social http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3602 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3602 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Reuters retracted a Nov. 18 story "reporting that a video showed Nigerian troops shooting unarmed captives," according to a Nov. 19 statement on Reuters' website. The story, identified by Reuters as "STORY NUMBER: L5E8MI2UG," was "withdrawn because questions http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3601 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3601 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:30:00 -0500 Was the Guardian's cartoon picturing "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a puppet-master, controlling tiny versions of Foreign Secretary William Hague and Tony Blair" anti-Semitic? Check out the cartoon by Steve Bell above. The Jewish Chronicle http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3595 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3595 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:00:00 -0500 Lord McAlpine, the retired politician who settled with the BBC for andpound;185,000 (close to $300,000) after the British public broadcaster suggested but did not name that he had been guilty of child abuse, is also suing UK outlet ITV, the BBC noted. As we wrote, the BBC's Nov. 2 report http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3598 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3598 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:45:00 -0500 Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead explained to readers recently how the Canadian daily newspaper differentiates between corrections and clarifications. According to Stead, corrections are of "clear-cut mistakes" like misspellings or "an incorrect title." http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3593 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3593 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 An Ohio meteorologist is suing another meteorologist at his station, NBC-affiliate WCMH, for libel, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Morning Meteorologist Bob Nunnally claims that in June, Chief Meteorologist Jym Ganahl "made false statements that injured Nunnally in his 'trade http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3591 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3591 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0500 An anonymous New York Jets player criticized news outlets, including the New York Daily News, that used anonymous sources to talk about the team, Metro reported. The "prominent Jets player...who spoke on the condition of anonymity" commented that the quote "was made up or http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3596 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3596 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:00:00 -0500 The Philippines' Department of Social Welfare and Development hosted a "forum on Social Media Ethics" that also addressed "standards in reporting of children's cases," the government's Philippine Information Agency reported. The mid-November event promoted http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3597 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3597 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:30:00 -0500 Matt DeRienzo, group editor of the Journal Register Company newspapers, addressed the need for prominent corrections in a Nov. 18 column about a significant error in The Register Citizen, based in Torrington, Conn. The Register Citizen reported that the Center for Cancer Care was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3594 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3594 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:00:00 -0500 News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch apologized after making controversial comments about Gaza, the Hollywood Reporter reported. In a Nov. 18 tweet, Murdoch wrote "apologise unreservedly" after a series of tweets critical of "Jewish owned press." His apology tweet -- http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3592 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3592 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Editor's Note: This is Part 2 of a 2-part analysis, by David Moore, of the Associated Press poll on racial attitudes, conducted by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and NORC at the University of Chicago. A recent Associated Press news story about race in http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3585 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3585 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:30:00 -0500 The BBC apologized to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for asking him "about the Gaza situation while he thought he was off-air," according to a Nov. 16 report on the BBC's website. According to the BBC profile on Sacks, he is "Chief Rabbi of Britain and the United Hebrew http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3590 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3590 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Someone was impersonating a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, the Associated Press reported. The phony reporter is "calling high school female athletes at home and asking to take their pictures and interview them." But, yesterday, a man was charged related to the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3589 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3589 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:00:00 -0500 The UK Press Complaints Commission released a new "guidance note" on "privacy and the public domain" in light of the UK Sun's publication of naked photos of Prince Harry. In August, after TMZ published photos of the prince naked in a Las Vegas hotel room, the PCC http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3587 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3587 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 The Belgium Royal Palace has complained to the Journalistic Deontology Council about the book Royal Questions, the Associated Press and Agence France Presse reported. The book included "alleged dalliances and private family information about leading members of Belgium's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3578 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3578 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:50:00 -0500 New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan responded to the numerous reports questioning if Paula Broadwell's husband was behind the July letter to Times Ethicist columnist Chuck Klosterman. The unsigned letter, published July 13, asked Klosterman if the letter writer should http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3586 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3586 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 As iMediaEthics wrote this past weekend, BBC director general George Entwistle resigned Nov. 10 after a high-profile apology for inaccurately suggesting Lord McAlpine had sexually abused a man named Steve Messham and for the high-profile expose that the BBC hadn't covered allegations against http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3579 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3579 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:20:00 -0500 This past week, Commentary magazine blogger D.G. Myers suggested he was fired for his pro-gay marriage blog post, Media Bistro's Fishbowl DC reported. Commentary identifies itself as "America's premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3584 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3584 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 An Illinois woman, Sharon Bialek, is suing CBS Chicago and its anchor Bill Kurtis for his 2011 comments on WLS radio about her claims of sexual harassment by Herman Cain, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In early November 2011, Bialek was "the fourth woman who has accused http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3573 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3573 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:30:00 -0500 Denver ABC-affiliate KMGH, also known as 7News or the Denver Channel, apologized yesterday for its "viral" error in using a Photoshopped picture of Paula Broadwell's book on David Petraeus. The cover for the book All In was altered to read All Up in my Snatch. According http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3580 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3580 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:15:00 -0500 The UK Sun apologized to an Italian man for saying he was the father of seven children, the UK Press Complaints Commission reported. The Sun's apology was published Oct. 13, but the PCC published its report on the complaint to the PCC over the error last week. The Sun's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3564 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3564 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:10:00 -0500 The Cornwall Free News published Nov. 13 a retraction from its police blotter. The retraction indicated the Canadian outlet's publication of the local Community Police Service police report "wrongly named" someone. The retraction reads: "POLICE BLOTTER http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3582 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3582 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Editor's Note: This story was originally published Nov. 11. The story was lost in a server change but was re-uploaded Nov. 13. BBC director-general George Entwistle resigned Nov. 10, "after just 54 days in the job" the day after the British public broadcaster http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3581 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3581 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:40:00 -0500 South African president Jacob Zuma ended his 2008 defamation lawsuit for a Sunday Times cartoon, "The Rape of Lady Justice," according to an Oct. 28 statement published by the South African government. The cartoon "depicted President Zuma preparing to 'rape' a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3575 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3575 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Even Twitter headlines can be subject to inaccurate complaints. The BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee ruled in an Oct. 30 report that the BBC was inaccurate with its February tweet "David Cameron attack on Welsh NHS," which was an abbreviated version of the story's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3576 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3576 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:00:00 -0500 Toronto Star freelancer Michael Clarkson apologized for having "mishandled" a quotation that his sports editor called "below our standards" in sourcing, the Star's public editor Kathy English reported. The article originally included a quote from Canadian Motor http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3574 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3574 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Hartfort Courant reporter Hillary Federico resigned earlier this month after the newspaper found her articles had "strong similarities" to other outlets' work, according to an note by the Courant, which Mondo Times identifies as a daily Connecticut newspaper with a circulation of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3572 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3572 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:20:00 -0500 After publishing an article claiming explosives led to a 2010 plane crash, Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita was accused of sensationalism and the editor-in-chief resigned. Reuters described the newspaper as "one of Poland's best-selling newspapers" and Mondo Times adds that http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3571 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3571 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 The UK Mail on Sunday unpublished a photo and added a disclosure that a photo was an "illustration" after a complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission. The doctored photo was only published online. The PCC's report explained that the "illustration" was a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3570 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3570 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:25:00 -0500 MSNBC's Chris Matthews apologized Nov. 7 for commenting during the 2012 Presidential Election coverage that he was "glad" about Hurricane Sandy "because of its impact on this national campaign," Mediaite reported. Matthews' original comments http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3569 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3569 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 In the final days before the election, some major conservative pundits such as Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner, Dick Morris for Fox News, and Steve Lombardo at the Huffington Post predicted startling high electoral vote numbers for Romney, asserting that not only would http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3568 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3568 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:30:00 -0500 Kenyan journalists were trained on "media ethics, election reporting and audience-led reporting" last month, according to a UNESCO report. UNESCO, Kenya's Media Council, BBC Media Action and the Canadian High Commission held the Oct. 22-23 workshop, which Media Council http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3567 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3567 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 ABC News is defending its "pink slime" comments as "imaginative expression" and "rhetorical hyperbole," Courthouse News Service reported. As iMediaEthics has written, Beef Products Inc. filed a defamation lawsuit in September claiming ABC News' calling its http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3566 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3566 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:15:00 -0500 Greek magazine editor Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested and later acquitted over accusations that his magazine Hot Doc broke "Greece's data privacy law by revealing citizens' private information" by publishing the "Lagarde list," which includes the names of "2,000 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3563 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3563 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0500 Nigerian governor Abiola Ajimobi is suing PM News' publisher for N1 billion (about $6.4 million) over its Oct. 30 article "Anxiety over Florence Ajimobi's alleged arrest in UK," the Nation Online reported. The Osun Defender reported that the story claims she was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3565 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3565 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:45:00 -0500 The New York Post unpublished an Oct. 31 story reporting that "Mayor Bloomberg will announce later today that passenger cars will be temporarily barred from entering Manhattan," Poynter's Julie Moos reported. The story was sourced to unnamed "City Hall sources" and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3559 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3559 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:00:00 -0500 There's a new conduct code for Somaliland journalists, the Somaliland Sun reported. The code advises against sensationalism, invasion of privacy, "hidden cameras," and bias. Further, the code calls for journalists to "protect" their anonymous sources, and for http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3561 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3561 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:00:00 -0500 The Essex Chronicle apologized after publishing a photo of the wrong person to accompany the story, "Drug dealer given three years in jail," the UK Press Gazette reported. The Chronicle is a weekly paid newspaper owned by Northcliffe Media. The Chronicle's Oct. 26 apology http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3554 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3554 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:00:00 -0500 Alabama Live (AL.com) apologized and unpublished an "inappropriate" Halloween photo showing someone dressed up in "blackface." Jim Romenesko posted the photo in question, which shows a man with his skin painted black, wearing an Afro wig, and holding a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3560 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3560 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 Editors' Note: This is Part 1 of a 2-part analysis by David Moore of the Associated Press poll on racial attitudes, conducted by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and NORC at the University of Chicago. Here are some startling findings of the recent http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3555 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3555 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0500 With Hurricane Sandy came fake photos, old photos, inaccurate reporting, and corrections, as iMediaEthics has written. First there was a September photo of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers re-circulating as if it were from Oct. 29. And, there were fake storm photos, of course. http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3558 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3558 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:00:00 -0400 The UK Press Complaints Commission called out the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald for its reporting on a suicide according to a recent PCC report. The Gazette and Herald is a weekly local newspaper in the UK, according to Mondo Times. The Gazette and Herald's Sept. 6 report on a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3556 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3556 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:00:00 -0400 CNN aired the wrong photo of a New York woman killed during Hurricane Sandy this week. The network's Anderson Cooper made an on-air correction during the Nov. 1 broadcast of his program Anderson Cooper 360. Cooper said, according to the CNN transcript: "We also want to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3557 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3557 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:00:00 -0400 The Los Angeles Times corrected an Oct. 29 article on the San Fransisco Giants' World Series victory but took the correction a step further by including an explanation from the reporter on how the error was made, how the reporter learned of the error, and how readers reacted. The article http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3553 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3553 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:00:00 -0400 French Marie Claire apologized after a management member tried to get a restaurant to give free food, food blog The Braiser reported. As the blog Eater summarized, French Marie Claire's Group Managing Director Jean-Paul Lubot emailed Vivant chef Pierre Jancou asking for a "comped http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3545 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3545 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:00:00 -0400 As iMediaEthics wrote earlier this year, the UK Sun announced the appointment of its first ombudsman in years, Philippa Kennedy. News Corp.-owned The Sun hadn't had an ombudsman since 2006 and named Kennedy as part of its "commitment to our readers" to "maintain the bond http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3552 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3552 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:00:00 -0400 This month, ABC News has issued two statements about its reporting. Earlier this month, the network retracted some claims made in a June 29 report about Bravo TV Real Housewives of Orange County personality Brooks Ayers. However, the statement isn't characterized by ABC News as a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3537 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3537 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:00:00 -0400 Kazakhstan journalists have a new code of ethics, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty reported. The code was launched by the government's Ministry of Culture and Information earlier this week as "an instrument of self-discipline for journalists, a moral and ethical standard for http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3551 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3551 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Tom Cruise is suing Bauer Publishing Company over In Touch and Life and Style stories about his relationship with his daughter Suri, the New York Times reported. In question are Life and Style's July 30 cover "Suri in Tears, Abandoned by Her Dad," and In Touch's Oct. 1 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3538 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3538 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:30:00 -0400 Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead explained that the Globe and Mail published the word "retard" in a report about Ann Coulter's tweet using the word because it was newsworthy. A reader had questioned the word's publication in a story given that the word http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3543 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3543 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 News Corp.-owned Times of London apologized again for hacking into the email of blogger Richard Horton, the Guardian reported. Horton, as iMediaEthics has written, blogged anonymously on the Nightjack blog, until the Times revealed his identity. Times editor James Harding apologized http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3548 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3548 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:30:00 -0400 CNN and the Weather Channel both told viewers that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was flooded with three feet of water Oct. 29 because of Hurricane Sandy. But, it wasn't. Weather anchor Chad Myers said on CNN last night that "According to the National Weather Service, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3550 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3550 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:30:00 -0400 Rock singer Axl Rose's lawyers called for a photography art show to close over photos and photo captions that his lawyers say are "false outrageous, false, fabricated and highly defamatory," according to a letter from Rose's lawyer posted by TMZ. The photographer, Laura http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3539 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3539 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Fake and dated photos are circulating with Hurricane Sandy coverage today. Gawker noted that "everyone from the New York Times' Jodi Kantor to the New Yorker's David Grann to Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski" tweeted a fake photo of an ominous storm cloud near the Statue of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3549 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3549 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:05:00 -0400 andldquo;Is it wrong to lie to a pollster,andrdquo; a reader recently asked New York Times columnist Chuck Klosterman, who writes under the title, The Ethicist, andldquo;if you believe that telling the truth will add momentum to a political candidate you oppose?andrdquo; Klosterman's answer: http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3546 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3546 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:35:00 -0400 Drone (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) journalism was the subject of an Oct. 22 Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism workshop, according to blogger Judith Townend in a post questioning drone ethics on her blog Meeja Law. According to a news post on the Reuters Institute's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3542 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3542 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 ESPN's SportsNation, Sports Illustrated's Peter King and others re-tweeted a fake photograph of Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, Yahoo Sports reported. The photo shows Verlander posing in a stadium and was doctored by changing the wording of his T-shirt, which originally http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3544 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3544 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:10:00 -0400 How should news outlets handle photos of the Upper West Side family the Krims, whose personal tragedy has made national news? As has been much reported, mother Marina Krim returned to the family's Upper West Side Manhattan home this past week and found two of her three children dead and the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3541 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3541 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won't give political endorsements anymore in order to remain independent, according to Editorial Page Editor David D. Haynes' Oct. 26 announcement. The daily newspaper has a circulation of about 185,000 copies, according to Mondo Times. Haynes told http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3540 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3540 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:00:00 -0400 New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson commented on the Times' standards, policies and thoughts on sourcing, online comments, reporting on Libya and more in a recent Q andamp; A with readers. Sourcing In response to reader Charlene Flick asking about credibility, "accuracy http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3524 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3524 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 UK newspaper company Trinity Mirror announced an "investigation into the allegations of phone hacking" made against three of its newspapers, the Guardian reported. According to the Guardian, Trinity Mirror's CEO Simon Fox said in "an email to staff" http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3535 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3535 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:15:00 -0400 CNN unpublished an article that "did not meet the editorial standards of CNN," Mediaite reported. The story has been replaced with a post disclosing the unpublishing that reads: "Post removed: Study looks at voting and hormones "A post previously http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3536 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3536 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 Journalism ethicist Stephen Ward commented that he was "uncomfortable" with TV journalist Jennifer Livingston using part of her Wisconsin WKBT news program to give a "four-minute rebuttal to a viewer's email criticizing her weight," TV broadcasting news site TV News Check http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3534 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3534 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Five Zambian "media houses" said they will "sacrificially fund" Zambia's Media Council, the Zambian Daily Mail reported. According to the Times of Zambia, the funding is for the council's "formative 12-month stage." Zambia's Media Liaison http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3533 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3533 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:00:00 -0400 The Society of American Business Editors and Writers will host a Nov. 30 Florida workshop on investigative business reporting, according to a "staff report." The free daylong workshop was funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. iMediaEthics wrote earlier http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3531 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3531 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:00:00 -0400 As iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week, the Daily Wildcat, an "independent news organization" at the University of Arizona, and its editor apologized after running a comic that "readers felt was homophobic and inappropriate." The comic strip showed a father telling his son http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3530 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3530 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:00:00 -0400 Afghanistan's Ministry of Information and Culture set up a "committee to oversee Afghanistan's media ethics," according to "Afghanistan's first 24-hour station dedicated to news and current affairs" TOLO News. Minister Sayed Makhdoom Rahin called for media http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3532 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3532 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:20:00 -0400 The South African Press Council is looking for an ombudsman and six "public representatives" and recently announced a rehaul of its regulation system. According to job postings on BizCommunity.com, the Johannesburg-based ombudsman role will last "a term of five years, which http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3528 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3528 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:35:00 -0400 The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror were fined last week for contempt of court resulting from their reporting on the person convicted of teenager Milly Dowler's murder, the Guardian reported. Levi Bellfield was convicted in 2011 of the 13-year-old's kidnap and murder. Shortly http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3529 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3529 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:40:00 -0400 Comedian Frankie Boyle won his libel lawsuit against the UK Daily Mirror, according to the Guardian. As iMediaEthics wrote last week, Boyle sued over a July 19, 2011 article headlined "Channel 4: We are back on the Boyle." The report called Boyle "racist," http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3527 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3527 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:45:00 -0400 Australia's Media Watch apologized after not contacting the Australian Daily Telegraph for comment in a 2011 report criticizing the Telegraph for "blatantly one-sided" reporting according to the Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald. Media Watch identifies itself as http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3525 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3525 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:00:00 -0400 This past week, news outlets in the UK and Canada were hoaxed by a company purporting to be a "celebrity sperm donor service" and an actor posing as the company's CEO, which all turned out to be a viral marketing promotion. On its website, the company, Fame Daddy, offers to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3526 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3526 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:15:00 -0400 The Arizona Daily Wildcat apologized Oct. 17 for its "serious error in judgment in printing a cartoon that some readers felt was homophobic and inappropriate." The Wildcat identifies itself as "an independent news organization serving the University of Arizona" with a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3523 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3523 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The Associated Press released an Oct. 18 "staff newsletter" about the term "illegal immigrant." As iMediaEthics has written, the debate over the term "illegal immigrant" re-surfaced recently after journalist Jose Antonio Vargas called for the New York Times and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3522 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3522 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:15:00 -0400 The Poynter Institute and Craig Newmark's craigconnects are holding a "Journalism Ethics Forum" Oct. 23 in New York, according to an Oct. 15 press release. The day-long event includes speakers from Poynter, the Project for Excellence in Journalism's director Tom Rosenstiel http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3521 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3521 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:00:00 -0400 Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead argued that "it's okay to pick a winner in a debate" for news coverage. In her Oct. 18 blogpost, Stead addressed readers complaints about accusations of bias through words and photographs of U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3520 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3520 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:00:00 -0400 The Los Angeles Times corrected an Oct. 18 article that confused astronaut Neil Armstrong with cyclist Lance Armstrong. The article's headline originally read "After Nike drops Neil Armstrong: Other athletes who've been cut," according to a screenshot posted by Jim http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3519 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3519 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The New York Times suspended Andrew Goldman for four weeks after he posted inappropriate tweets in response to critics of his interview with Tippi Hedren. Times public editor Margaret Sullivan reported that according to "a statement sent to me by the Times corporate communications http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3514 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3514 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:30:00 -0400 An anonymous commenter defended her comment about an Idaho Republican party official, the Associated Press reported. As iMediaEthics reported earlier this year, the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Washington state was subpoeaned for the identity of the commenter, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3516 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3516 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:10:00 -0400 News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch apologized Oct. 18 for a tweet about Hugh Grant. The apology tweet reads: "Hugh Grant states that he is deeply involved in his daughter's life - I accept that, regret tweet on the matter. Apologies to both parents." The Guardian explained http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3517 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3517 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:05:00 -0400 The Center for International Media Ethics is inviting applicants for a 2013 "Fellowship for Ethics Leadership," according to a posting on DevelopingCareer.com. The "subject field" of this yearlong research fellowship "could be the impact of modern technology, and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3515 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3515 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Freud Museum in London is hosting a conference on "Media Ethics and Emotional Wellbeing" Nov. 10. The "one day symposium" runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to the Freud Museum website, "this symposium will explore the emotional and ethical http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3508 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3508 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:00:00 -0400 An Ecuadorean judge ruled that El Universo newspaper violated the privacy of children by "publishing photographs of underage children with President Rafael Correa," the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reported. El Universo must pay a $500 fine even though the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3512 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3512 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:40:00 -0400 The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead defended the Canadian newspaper's coverage of teenager Amanda Todd's death as "sensitive and complete." Stead noted that the newspaper "generally" won't "report on suicides unless there is true news http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3513 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3513 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 Women in Journalism, which identifies itself as a "networking, campaigning, training and social organisation for women journalists," studied UK newspapers from mid-April to mid-May to survey women's presence on the front page. According to the Oct. 15 report, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3506 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3506 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:45:00 -0400 The Gallup Poll has come under attack for recent changes in its likely voter model. While they were apparently designed to overcome some of the shortcomings noted by Mark Blumenthal at Huffington Post, the results produced by Gallup's new methodology have provoked criticisms from http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3510 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3510 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:40:00 -0400 The Daily Mirror unpublished and corrected a July 20 article that misreported information from a survey after a complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission. The survey reported that "23% of the 18- to 24-year-olds polled had been involved in their first crash within 6 months," http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3511 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3511 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:15:00 -0400 Malawi Voice reporter Justice Mponda has been charged with "false publication and criminal libel" over an article claiming the country's president was resigning. The information came from a phony Facebook account, IOL.co.za reported. Malawi Voice identifies itself as an http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3509 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3509 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:30:00 -0400 The Scottish Daily Record announced Oct. 12 "we are suspending comments on football stories" because of "an unacceptable level of behaviour that breaches our terms and conditions." According to Mondo Times, the Daily Record is a Glasgow-based Trinity Mirror-owned http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3507 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3507 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 MSNBC erred in an Oct. 14 graphic that mistakenly reported that Felix Baumgartner, the man who "broke the sound barrier" while sky diving, had "traveled faster than speed of light," Mediaite reported. The Huffington Post noted that Baumgartner "was the first person http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3503 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3503 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:30:00 -0400 The Drudge Report linked to a fake Twitter account purporting to be Jake Gyllenhaal, Mediaite reported. The post directed to the tweet "As a Democrat, I'll say it now, I endorse Mitt Romney For President of the United States #MyVoteIsMake." According to Mediaite, the Drudge http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3505 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3505 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:30:00 -0400 Comedian Frankie Boyle is suing Mirror Group Newspapers for describing him as "racist" in a July 19, 2011 report "Channel 4: We are back on the Boyle," the Guardian reported. According to the Guardian, Boyle's lawyers played "video clips of Boyle's Channel 4 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3502 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3502 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:40:00 -0400 Former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas, who identified himself as an "undocumented immigrant" last year in an essay for the New York Times, is calling for the New York Times and the Associated Press to stop referring to people as "illegal http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3501 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3501 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 South African newspaper The Citizen fired staff member Johann Hattingh after the newspaper published a Photoshopped image, The Citizen's editor Martin Williams reported in a Sept. 28 column. As iMediaEthics reported Sept. 20, The Citizen apologized for Photoshopping the Agence France-Presse http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3462 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3462 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:00:00 -0400 The Bhutan Media Foundation is hosting "10 journalism training programmes in October and November" for "more than 200 participants," according to the Bhutan Observer. Sessions include training on photojournalism, investigative journalism and media http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3498 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3498 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Virginia's Washington and Lee University is hosting its 54th Institute on Ethics in Journalism with a "keynote address" by the New York Times' David Carr, according to a news release on its website. According to the press release: "The title of Carr's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3499 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3499 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:30:00 -0400 Earlier this month, Pakistan's press council named "four jurists to head the Inquiry Commission" for the council, according to the Express Tribune. The Inquiry Commission "will deal with complaints against media houses and journalists." Last month, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3500 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3500 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:15:00 -0400 "One of the problems we have with public policy polling is that a lot of people, probably anywhere from a third to a half, are unengaged on any given issue," iMediaEthics' in-house polling critic David Moore said today in an appearance on MSNBC's Chris Hayes http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3497 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3497 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:10:00 -0400 Two U.S. public editors -- the Washington Post's Patrick Pexton and the New York Times' Margaret Sullivan -- have weighed in this month on their newspapers' coverage of Libya and the Sept. 11, 2012 attack that killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens. Washington Post http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3496 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3496 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:30:00 -0400 Toronto Star public editor Kathy English reported that the Canadian newspaper's "news bureaus in Ottawa, Queen's Park and Toronto city hall" all told her they don't allow "quote approval." As iMediaEthics has written, a July New York Times report http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3495 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3495 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:30:00 -0400 News International paid Richard Horton andpound;42,500 in a settlement for his lawsuit over the Times of London's hacking his email to identify him as an anonymous police blogger, the Guardian reported. Horton sued for "breach of confidence, misuse of private information and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3484 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3484 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:15:00 -0400 Journalist James M Dorsey must identify his anonymous sources for his Sept. article "The World of Soccer: AFC reports to Malaysian Police about Stolen Payment Documents," after a recent Singapore court ruling, according to "media action centre" HotNHitNews.com. The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3467 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3467 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 New York Times freelancer Andrew Goldman apologized to author Jennifer Weiner after commenting on Twitter to her that "Little Freud in me thinks you would have liked to at least have had opportunity to sleep way to top," according to Times public editor Margaret Sullivan. Weiner http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3493 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3493 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:30:00 -0400 The Tunisian government may be charging "children's magazine" Qaws Quzah (Rainbow) over a recent article that detailed the "history of petrol bombs, including instructions and a diagram" that shows how to build them, the Guardian reported. According to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3490 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3490 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:10:00 -0400 Thai TV news anchor Sorrayuth Suthasanachinda defended his ethics and two recent charges from the National Anti-Corruption Commission in a mid-September episode of his "news hour programme," an opinion report by Kavi Chonkittavorn published by Irrawaddy and the Nation Multimedia http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3444 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3444 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:10:00 -0400 Southern Methodist University, located in Dallas, Texas, is having a media ethics lecture later this month, according to the university's Oct. 10 press release. The Oct. 24 free lecture, given by Dallas TV news anchor John McCaa, is the "thirteenth annual Rosine Smith Sammons http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3491 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3491 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Brigham Young University journalism professor Joel Campbell called for journalism students to "have kind of a moral compass in what they do" during an October "lecture series," the university's student newspaper the Universe reported. Likewise, communications http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3487 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3487 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:45:00 -0400 The BBC Trust has asked "former ITV chief executive" Stuart Prebble to review the broadcaster's "coverage of religion, immigration and Europe," according to The Guardian. The Guardian noted that the review was "announced in August" and, according to the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3494 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3494 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The New York Times quoted or pictured six fake names in a Sept. 27 story, "Last Call for College Bars." The article, which reports on Cornell University students, bars, and social media, now carries a Sept. 27 "editors' note" that explains "After the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3481 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3481 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:55:00 -0400 The Associated Press made a "caption addition" that "clarifies" that a girl pictured in the background of an Oct. 8 photo of Mitt Romney looked shocked because "Romney will be posing for a photo directly in front of her and her classmates." The photo http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3489 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3489 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 As iMediaEthics reported previously, Elton John sued the News Corp.-owned Times of London for libel over June 21 articles that he said "falsely linked him to a controversial tax avoidance scheme." But, UK High Court judge Justice Tugendhat ruled against Elton John Oct. 10, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3492 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3492 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:40:00 -0400 Editors from the Hilton Head Island Packet Beaufort Gazette, the Gullah Sentinel and the Savannah Morning News discussed journalism ethics in a recent Beaufort County Library "forum," according to Beaufort Gazette and Island Packet editor Jeff Kidd. Kidd told iMediaEthics by email http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3486 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3486 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The Toronto Star "edited" an editorial from August to remove a reference to "'Jewish only' roads and settlements in the West Bank." The editorial was by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East president Thomas Woodley. The article now carries a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3438 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3438 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:15:00 -0400 In a post for the News Guild, Janelle Hartman recounted how Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert decided to hold off on taking pictures of a car on fire until he helped the driver first. Herbert said of the August incident in Mississippi that: "In this situation, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3465 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3465 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:50:00 -0400 The BBC Trust labeled the airing of a February comment by BBC host Jeremy Clarkson "offensive" and a "regrettable lapse of editorial judgment," the Guardian reported. Clarkson had compared "a Prius car camper van hybrid to 'people with growths on their http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3472 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3472 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:45:00 -0400 The forum Journalism Accelerator is hosting an interesting question for discussion: "How do you manage the ethical minefields of 'access journalism'?" For example, the forum asked about quote approval -- the practice of allowing politicians to OK quotes before publishing http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3485 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3485 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:40:00 -0400 Mitt Romney was a news organization's dream last week, when he resuscitated a moribund campaign with what many feel was a stellar debate performance. Now we're all excitedly examining new polls to tell us exactly how big a bump he will get. And how long it will last (look quickly: It http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3488 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3488 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:00:00 -0400 VIENNA, Austria -- Austrian newspaper publisher Christoph Dichand apologized after Kronen Zeitung was caught using a faked dramatic photograph of a family fleeing Syria's civil war-torn city Aleppo. The picture - published in the country's biggest selling Kronen Zeitung http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3284 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3284 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Oriental Daily News' Nov. 1, 2011 online article and photo of a "suicide of a primary school pupil" was accused of being inaccurate and invasive, according to an October 3, 2012 ruling from the Hong Kong Journalists Association. According to the association, the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3483 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3483 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:00:00 -0400 The journalists described in andldquo;Changing Journalismandrdquo; (Routledge), the readable and summarily dour analysis by a trio of UK media researchers, resemble nothing more than the frog in the increasingly steamy pot of water, heart rate rising, contemplating escape as not merely an option but http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3403 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3403 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:30:00 -0400 The Sunday Times of Malta is appealing a recent court ruling that the newspaper defamed the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN), according to the newspaper's own report. As iMediaEthics wrote last month, the newspaper and its reporter were fined andeuro;11,500 in the ruling against http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3479 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3479 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 In an Oct. 7 column in response to reader complaints about language in the newspaper, The Guardian's readers' editor Chris Elliott explained that the newspaper "has guidance about swearing -- but not other kinds of sexually explicit material that may offend." The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3482 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3482 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:45:00 -0400 The UK Daily Mail apologized and unpublished an article about a teenager's death after his mother complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission, according to a recent PCC report. The Daily Mail also made a "charitable donation" because of the complaint. The apology http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3471 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3471 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:30:00 -0400 "Sixty victims of phone hacking and other press abuses...with the help of Hacked Off" called on the UK prime Minister David Cameron to serve the "public interest" and "consider the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson," who led the Leveson Inquiry into press http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3480 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3480 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:40:00 -0400 The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at Penn State University, apologized and suspended a student writer after he fabricated quotes to attribute to Sue Paterno, the wife of the late football coach Joe Paterno, for a Sept. 7 article, according to an Oct. 1 report by the Daily http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3470 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3470 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The UK Press Complaints Commission ruled against the Halifax Courier for being insensitive in its report on a man's "terminal" illness "malignant mesothelioma," according to the PCC's report on the ruling, which was sent to iMediaEthics. According to Mondo Times, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3477 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3477 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:00:00 -0400 News outlets including Mediaite, MSNBC, Gawker and the New York Times reported "as fact" from a "column that Politico intended as satire," the Times reported. The Politico report, "Paul Ryan vs. The Stench," "conjured a situation in which [Paul] Ryan was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3476 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3476 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan, a six-year-old advocacy group, announced in a press release sent to iMediaEthics Sept. 21 that it "will train journalists on gender sensitive reporting." Through the new training, under White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan's "Nationwide http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3475 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3475 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:20:00 -0400 The Kansas City Star has a "longtime policy" against publishing the "name of Washington's NFL team: the Redskins," according to the newspaper's public editor Derek Donovan. Donovan explained that the word "Redskins" is a "racial epithet, plain and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3474 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3474 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead reported Sept. 27 that the newspaper's "editors agreed" it was inappropriate for freelancer Leah McLaren to write about "her own house which was up for sale" in a column for the newspaper's real estate section. For her http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3473 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3473 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Daily Mail apologized and paid Nicolas Cage "undisclosed damages" in a libel settlement over a September story claiming he was "evading taxes," according to a post on Russell Jones andamp; Walker Solicitors' website. Cage's lawyer, Paul Tweed, is quoted by the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3468 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3468 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:10:00 -0400 BBC hosts Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt apologized after what a BBC spokesperson described as a "not-for-broadcast audio containing an audible swearword" unintentionally aired, the Guardian reported. According to the Guardian, the BBC said "the error was caused by a radio http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3469 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3469 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:15:00 -0400 iMediaEthics wrote last year when former New York governor Eliot Spitzer was sued over an Aug. 2010 article for Slate. The two people suing Spitzer, "former Marsh andamp; McLennan Cos executive" William Gilman and Edward McNenney, weren't named in the article, but they claimed http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3466 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3466 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:35:00 -0400 Italian editor Alessandro Sallusti was sentenced to 14 months in jail for a 2007 article "Italy's highest" court found to be libelous, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported. Sallusti edited the article in question, which "suggested that a juvenile court http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3464 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3464 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 A fake story claiming "Ben Roethlisberger has broken both of his legs in a traffic altercation," circulated this week, Deadspin reported. Roesthlisberger is the Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback. The website hosting the fake report, Global Associated News, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3454 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3454 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:45:00 -0400 Iran's Fars News Agency lifted a fake story by The Onion and ran it as fact, CNN reported. Fars News Agency describes itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency," but the New York Times identifies it as "close to Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3463 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3463 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Yemen Journalists Syndicate is one step closer to creating its ethics code, Al-Shorfa, "a website sponsored by the U.S. Central Command," reported. As we wrote earlier this summer, the syndicate "with support from USAID" started working on an ethics code. According http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3437 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3437 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The New York Times "replaced" an article on Mitt Romney with a "very different" report on Romney mid-September. The original article, andldquo;Behind Romney's Decision to Attack Obama on Libya," included a "critical quote from a Romney senior http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3414 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3414 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:05:00 -0400 Buffalo, New York NBC-affiliate WGRZ-2 wrongly used a photo of the singer Seal with its early September report on actor Michael Clarke Duncan's death, Deadspin reported. The station apologized Sept. 3, calling the photo error "our bad," according to Media Bistro. The http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3456 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3456 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:15:00 -0400 Facing a libel lawsuit, The Sunday Monitor apologized and retracted "defamatory statements connecting [Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni] to land grabbing," Ugandan newspaper New Vision reported. The Monitor is a local Kampala, Uganda newspaper, according to Mondo http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3461 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3461 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Cameroon's National Communication Council advised journalists at a Sept. 11 "press briefing" to maintain journalism ethics, the Cameroon Tribune reported. The council's president Mgr. Joseph Befe Ateba reportedly "warned that media houses in Cameroon which do not http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3446 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3446 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:45:00 -0400 Society of Professional Journalists ethics chair Kevin Smith blogged Sept. 19 about applying the group's ethics code to social media. "The Society of Professional Journalists relies on its current ethics code to be a standard-bearer that can be applied to the varied mediums, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3427 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3427 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:30:00 -0400 The UK Press Complaints Commission won't be investigating the UK Sun's publishing naked pictures of Prince Harry, the BBC reported. In a statement, the palace's spokesperson said that "we have decided not to pursue a complaint" but maintaining the palace's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3459 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3459 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:10:00 -0400 Shepard Smith apologized after Fox News aired live footage of a man killing himself, the New York Times reported. Smith said: "We really messed upandhellip;and we're all very sorry. That didn't belong on TV. We took every precaution we knew how to take to keep that from http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3460 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3460 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Some Mitt Romney supporters have been arguing recently that most of the polls showing Obama surging in swing states, and even nationally, are wrong, because the polls have too many Democrats in the samples. These andldquo;skewedandrdquo; polls, the critics feel, are giving a misleading picture of http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3457 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3457 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The UK Press Complaints Commission criticized two newspapers - the Stourbridge News and the Halesowen News -- for being slow to answer a complaint from the subject of a story, but ruled that they didn't break the commission's privacy guidelines. Newsquest, a "Gannett http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3455 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3455 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 As iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week, the Globe and Mail put Margaret Wente under "disciplinary action" after attribution questions related to a 2009 column. The newspaper also quoted its editor John Stackhouse as saying "The journalism in this instance did not meet the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3452 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3452 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:20:00 -0400 As iMediaEthics has previously written, the UK Sun apologized this month for its 23-year-old "inaccurate and offensive story" that reported "the police's version of events" of "Britain's deadliest sporting disaster" as fact. A recent "independent http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3453 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3453 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 For the first time in years, the UK News Corp's. Sun named its first ombudsman, Philippa Kennedy, to an "indefinite" term to follow through on the newspaper's "commitment to our readers to appoint an ombudsman," a spokesperson for News International said to http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3451 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3451 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:45:00 -0400 The BBC apologized Sept. 25 for a "breach of confidence" in reporting on "a private conversation" with Queen Elizabeth. According to the BBC, its "security correspondent Frank Gardner" discussed his comments with the queen in which she reportedly said that "Abu http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3449 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3449 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The Globe and Mail reported today that its columnist Margaret Wente is under undescribed "disciplinary action" following questions about her attribution and that the newspaper's public editor role will be changed because of its current public editor's handling of the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3448 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3448 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:50:00 -0400 Despite skepticism about polls overall, most Americans have confidence in the news sources they use most. A survey by the Gallup Organization this month (Sept. 6-9, 2012) finds a new low in the number of Americans who trust in the andldquo;mass media such as newspapers, TV, and radio http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3436 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_blog&task=detail&id=3436 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:10:00 -0400 Reporters without Borders slammed a proposed Ukrainian criminal libel law, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty reported. The advocacy group argued that criminal libel could "threaten the very existence of independent journalism." The planned bill "could impose prison http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3394 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3394 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The U.S. Embassy in Manila and the Center for Media Freedom andamp; Responsibility announced they will start a "seminar-workshop on news media ethics for blocktimers," GMA News Online reported. "Blocktimers" are identified as "common in Philippine http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3447 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3447 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:45:00 -0400 The UK Independent on Sunday published a "clarification and apology" to Lord Melvin Bragg for including information about "his private life" in an interview about his "professional work," according to a report recently published by the UK Press Complaints http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3435 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3435 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:30:00 -0400 Kato Kaelin, the bit-part actor and drifter who was living at O.J. Simpson's house in Los Angeles at the time of Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, disputes the New York Post's Cindy Adams' quote attributed to him, Gossip Cop reported. However, while Kaelin said http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3429 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3429 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:30:00 -0400 The New York Times unpublished a quote from a rape victim's blog because it could possibly identify the woman, Times public editor Margaret Sullivan blogged Sept. 21. Sullivan explained that after a reader contacted the Times about the possible identification, the newspaper http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3440 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3440 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:00:00 -0400 The Syrian Freedom Association claims French magazine Charlie Hebdo's publication of cartoons picturing Muhammad were "publicly provoking discrimination, hatred or violence of an ethnic, racial or religious kind," the BBC reported. As we wrote last week, the satirical French http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3434 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3434 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:25:00 -0400 NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos blogged Sept. 12 to remind NPR's reporters that it is inaccurate to refer to the "Democrat Party," after a listener complained. As Schumacher-Matos explained, "'Democratic Party' is correct. 'Democrat Party' has a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3441 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3441 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:00:00 -0400 The U.S. State Department criticized CNN for airing information based on the late U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens' "personal journal," the Daily Mail reported. Politico explained that CNN reported on content from the journal Sept. 19, but it wasn't until Sept. http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3443 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3443 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Algerian newspaper Ennahar defended a photo of Christopher Stevens from accusations of Photoshop, the AFP reported. Stevens, as we have previously written, was killed Sept. 11 in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya. News outlets including the New York Times and the Globe and Mail ran http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3439 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3439 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:40:00 -0400 Fox News used a 2009 photo from Barack Obama's Twitter account in a segment last week to claim Obama was meeting a pirate instead of Benjamin Netanyahu. Fox News' Brian Kilmeade said, "The White House doesn't have the time to meet with the prime minister of Israel, but this http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3402 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3402 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 A Maltese court fined the Sunday Times of Malta and its reporter for libel Sept. 17, Malta Today reported. The newspaper's Aug. 22, 2010 article, "Patients swindled in scam - Top MUMN official investigated" had claimed that "a nurse and a salesman swindled http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3421 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3421 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:00:00 -0400 Sri Lankan newspaper Lakbima News apologized Sept. 16 for a Sept. 9 cartoon that was slammed as unacceptable. The cartoon depicted "the Indian Prime Minister underneath an uplifted sari of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and looking up," as self-described "Sri Lanka's http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3426 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3426 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Estonian newspaper Eesti Ekspress apologized for a "fake ad" in its "humor section" that paired "a photo of prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp" with a weight loss slogan, JTA reported. The newspaper's deputy editor Sulev Vedler is quoted as defending http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3393 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3393 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:15:00 -0400 National Review posted a note Sept. 19 to disclose that its Oct. 1 print issue's cover was an "altered" photo and "should not have been attributed to" Reuters and Newseum, Jim Romenesko reported. The National Review cover shows an image taken from behind Barack Obama http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3431 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3431 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:15:00 -0400 The New York Times announced Sept. 20 that it is banning allowing a "source or a press aide to review, approve or edit" quotes, the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan reported. Sullivan published a memo from the Times that explains "The practice risks giving readers a http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3433 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3433 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:00:00 -0400 Burmese weekly magazine The Voice Weekly, its editor and its publisher were all "charged with defamation" by the Myanmar's military junta for its reporting on the government's mining ministry, the BBC reported. The article claims there was http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3430 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3430 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:00:00 -0400 Malaysian "national news agency" Bernama admitted to publishing and distributing a Photoshopped picture, the Malaysian Insider reported. As Malaysiakini and blogger "Upper Caise" explained, the photo was fake because it used "duplicates of the crowd in the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3432 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3432 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Citizen apologized for Photoshopping an Agence France-Presse picture to remove two bodies for its Sept. 19 front page, Africa's Mail andamp; Guardian reported. The Citizen identifies itself as a "compact tabloid daily newspaper" based in Johannesburg, South http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3428 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3428 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:00:00 -0400 French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published "obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad" this week. The New York Times described the cartoons as "several crude caricatures" including "some of which depict Muhammad naked and in pornographic http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3425 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3425 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 Haitian prime minister Laurent Lamothe and a Florida "businessman" claim the Haiti-Observateur's August and September articles were libelous as well as "outrageous, scandalous and reminiscent of a tabloid publication," the Associated Press reported. According to its http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3417 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3417 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:10:00 -0400 The University of Central Oklahoma's upcoming "annual Media Ethics Conference" will focus on "sports, politics and news" reporting, according to a press release on the university's website. The university's Yvette Walker, the "Edith Gaylord Kinney http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3423 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3423 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:40:00 -0400 Science News will "plan to try to watch out" for any possible appearances of blurred lines between its advertising and news content "to avoid any appearance of a connection that does not exist." This vow comes after the Aug. 25 issue of Science News placed a book review http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3422 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3422 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:30:00 -0400 A.S. Panneerselvan has been named the new readers's editor at the Hindu, according to a report in the Hindu. According to the Hindu, it's "the only newspaper in India that has institutionalised the office of the Readers' Editor, an independent internal news ombudsman http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3424 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3424 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:35:00 -0400 The New York Times adds Michael Lewis to the list of journalists having to let politicians approve quotes before he could run them. We wrote earlier this summer when the New York Times detailed a quote approval practice it said Bloomberg, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Times itself and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3412 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3412 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 A French court granted Prince William and Kate Middleton's request for an injunction against Closer magazine's further publication of photos of Middleton topless, the BBC reported. As we wrote, last week Closer magazine ran the photos of the royal couple sunbathing "on the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3420 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3420 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:00:00 -0400 As we previously wrote, the New York Times defended its publication of a photo of U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, who was killed last week. The State Department called for the photo to be taken off the Times' website, a call which the Times' associate managing editor http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3416 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3416 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The Wall Street Journal unpublished two articles by Jonah Lehrer that "inappropriately reused passages from articles he wrote for the Boston Globe," according to the Journal's corrections page. The two articles in question, from November 2011 and May 2012, are now http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3419 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3419 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:15:00 -0400 The New York Times corrected an article about USA Today's recent re-design to properly name "James Bond's boss." The Sept. 13 correction (one of two on the article), reads: "An earlier version of this article misidentified James Bond's boss. His boss is M, http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3418 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3418 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The Dart Center for Journalism andamp; Trauma is holding a workshop Sept. 21-22 on "Covering Suicide." In an email announcing the workshop, the center's executive director Bruce Shapiro wrote that "the workshop will arm journalists with facts, ethical perspectives and http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3397 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3397 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:00:00 -0400 The Associated Press explained why it included a reference to Bill Clinton's perjury charge related to Monica Lewinsky, the Huffington Post reported. As the Huffington Post explained, "The AP's fact-check...suggests that because Clinton lied in the late 1990s, he isn't http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3383 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3383 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:45:00 -0400 Bolovia's government claims that Bolivian news agency Fides News Agency's report, published by the agency and two newspapers, on the president's Aug. 15 speech led to "diffusion and incitement of racism or discimination," the Knight Center for Journalism in the http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3351 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3351 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:30:00 -0400 Newspaper owner Richard Desmond said he is "taking immediate steps to close down the joint venture" his company Northern and Shell shares with Independent News andamp; Media in publishing the Irish Daily Star after the Daily Star published topless photos of Kate Middleton, the UK http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3415 http://www.imediaethics.org/index.php?option=com_news&task=detail&id=3415 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:40:00 -0400