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How many anonymous sources were put at risk by the Justice Department's snooping into the Associated Press's phone records?
The U.S. Justice Department had obtained, without the Associated Press's knowledge,... |
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Ghana Institute of Journalism rector David Newton called for penalties against media outlets that don't follow journalism standards.
Newton also advocated for the country's journalists abide by journalism ethics... |
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"We're getting the big stories wrong over and over again," CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said recently, according to the Associated Press.
Pelley, who also contributes to 60 Minutes, added that it... |
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iMediaEthics is pleased to report that we were named this week as a finalist in the 2013 Online Media Awards category for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism."
Other finalists in this category are... |
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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... |
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The term "shark-infested waters" is an inaccurate cliche, the Guardian readers' editor Chris Elliott argued in a May 5 column.
Readers took the paper to task after reporting on two American tourists who... |
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The University of Portland's [Oregon] student newspaper The Beacon offered an example of transparency to readers last month.
In a story on college students taking Adderall, "Drugged For Success," the... |
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A "producer error" led MSNBC to quote Vice President Joe Biden out of context from one event (about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya) and apply it to another segment with a completely different meaning,... |
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Howard Kurtz apologized May 5 on his CNN program "Reliable Sources" for his now-retracted Daily Beast article about NBA player Jason... |
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An angry father of a teenager wrongly identified by the New York Post as a possible suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings might sue, the Washington Post reported. His son and another person were depicted in a... |
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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... |
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The Guardian reported that some of its Twitter accounts was hacked this past week. Hacked accounts included the Guardian's Books, Travel and Film accounts.
According to the Guardian, the Syrian... |
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The New York Times corrected an April 7 article that wrongly -- and impossibly -- claimed that 145% of investment management firm International Value Advisers (IVA) Worldwide's "total portfolio is in European... |
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The Scottish Sun was called out by the Press Complaints Commission for being insensitive and invasion of privacy when publishing pictures from a funeral last fall.
The photos showed the family of Sir Chris Hoy at a... |
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Politico, the Washington, D.C.-based political journalism organization, is notorious for using anonymous sources in its reporting and they have taken heat for it before. As Slate's David Weigel put it in his... |
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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... |
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CBS News' Twitter account for 60 Minutes was hacked last Saturday and a phony tweet was posted.
The fake tweet read, pictured above, "Exclusive: Terror is striking the #USA and #Obama is Shamelessly in Bed with... |
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The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked another news site. In recent months the group has hacked BBC Twitter accounts, the AFP's Twitter account, and Al Jazeera's "mobile service."
This time,... |
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The executive editor of UK News Corp-owned newspaper The Sun, Fergus Shanahan, was charged in the UK police's investigation into bribery for "an offence of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office,"... |
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Dylan Byers of Politico has written a bizarre hatchet job of NY Times executive editor Jill Abramson. Apparently, she is a bitch, at least according to not one but “more than a dozen current and former members of... |
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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... |
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The Cape Cod Times apologized to readers for putting an advertisement for a pressure cooker next to a story about the pressure cooker bomb used in the Boston Marathon explosion, Jim Romenesko reported.
"The news... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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"Who is Shaping the News?" Are journalists, corporations, or media owners deciding what gets reported and how?
Those questions will be addressed this Friday, April 5 at the University of... |
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The BBC wrongly identified a South African man named Rufus Lekala as "Gay Marriage" in an on-air segment, the Guardian reported.
Lekala is... |
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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... |
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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 and attorney general with the caption "Gay Couples... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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UK police arrested someone for identifying an alleged sexual offense victim in a tweet, the Guardian reported.
In this case, the tweeter reportedly named the girl who was allegedly a victim of an assault by actor... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Did a firefighter act like a super hero and lift a fire truck with one hand? Apparently, a caption writer for NBC News thinks... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 & Publisher, the AFP announced the hack and warned its... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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In his recent commentary in the New York Times on the 2012 election, Thomas Edsall notes “the persistence of racial resentment” among American voters. While one would be hard-pressed to deny that general... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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"... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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CJR 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... |
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The Tampa Bay Times defended and explained its reporting after a story became national news because its source, Gretchen Molannen, committed... |
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iMediaEthics went to the 49th Street and 7th Avenue N, R and Q subway station and examined the platform where Han was tragically killed Monday, December 3. We used R. Umar Abbasi's published images as a guide to... |
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When the media covers Occupy Wall Street activities, not everyone pictured is a protester - a fact that sometimes seems lost in a lot of photography coming out of those events. In this case, though, I knew one of the... |
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News media has been awash with debate over the front-page photograph by Umar Abbasi in today's New York Post. There are a number of clues in his pictures that the story Abbasi has told about the photograph is... |
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Yesterday, December 3, 2012, a tragedy unfolded in the underground subway station near Times Square, New York. Ki-Suck Han of Queens was allegedly pushed onto the tracks by a deranged man and was struck by on oncoming... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch apologized after making controversial comments about Gaza, the Hollywood Reporter reported. In a Nov. 18 tweet, Murdoch wrote "apologise... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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An anonymous commenter defended her comment about an Idaho Republican party official, the Associated Press reported. As iMediaEthics reported earlier this year, the... |
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch apologized Oct. 18 for a tweet about Hugh Grant. The apology tweet... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas, who identified himself as an "uindocumented immigrant" last year in an essay for the New York Times, is calling for the New York Times and the Associated Press... |
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"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... |
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News International paid Richard Horton £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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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The journalists described in “Changing Journalism” (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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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The UK Press Complaints Commission criticized two newspapers - the Stourbridge News and the Halesowen News -- for being slow to correct errors in reporting, but ruled that they didn't break the commission's privacy... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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A Maltese court fined the Sunday Times of Malta and its reporter for libel, Malta Today reported.
The newspaper's Aug. 22, 2010 article, "Patients swindled in scam - Top MUMN official investigated"... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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The New York Times adds Michael Lewis to the list of journalists having to let politicians approve quotes before he could run... |
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The Dart Center for Journalism & 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... |
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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... |
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British police arrested former UK Times reporter Patrick Foster late last month "related to suspected offenses under the Computer Misuse Act and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice...related to the... |
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Zimbabwe is getting a "media commission to monitor media conduct and ethics," but a pre-existing media council slammed the plans as "undemocratic," Radio Voice of the People (VOP) reported.
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Egyptian TV news anchor Fatma Nabil broke "decades of secular dress code" Sept. 2 by "wearing the hijab" on air, the Guardian reported.
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Bernard Arnault claims that French newspaper Liberation's headline calling him a "rich jerk" is "public insult," "vulgar and violent," the Guardian reported.
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The New York Times' new public editor Margaret Sullivan explained in a Sept. 11 blog post why the Times opted for a "far more muted" coverage of the anniversary of Sept. 11 as opposed to last year's tenth... |
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A Toronto Star error reported that a business closed, when it hasn't, and correcting the record prompted a host of issues, Star public editor Kathy English explained in a recent column. The problem started, English... |
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The Columbia Spectator fired reporter Jade Bonacolta for an article with "plagiarized content" from the New York Times and making up a quote. The Spectator is Columbia University's student... |
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Fake blogposts were published on Amnesty International's blog, Amnesty tweeted Aug. 27.
According to the Associated Press, the hackers posted at least one fake story that "claimed that a research mission... |
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Readers complained about the Globe and Mail's front page photo of "an unsmiling woman in a niqab with the words 'Muslims Among Us' written across the black cloth of the garment," and the headline... |
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Crime novel author RJ Ellory admitted to writing positive Amazon reviews about his books, Gawker reported. As Gawker explained, "fellow crime writer Jeremy Duns" revealed the self-reviews, which prompted... |
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The Toronto Star corrected an August 31 report that claimed a man died from stab wounds, when he didn't.
The correction reads:
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Was August 26 backwards day at the Wall Street Journal? Two corrections posted on the Journal's online corrections page that day suggest so!
The corrections report that the Journal's facts were backwards... |
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The Scottish Daily Mail corrected an April 5 article claiming that a blogger posted "the vilest -- usually sexual -- allegations" about politicians, the Press Complaints Commission reported.
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Joshua Treviño's freelance "commentator" position at the Guardian ended in nine days over an old "offensive tweet" and an undisclosed "potential conflict of interest," the... |
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A few days after the Nov. 15 raids of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s initial camp at New York's Zuccotti Park, a photo of Brandon Watts, a protestor whose face had been bloodied by the police, was... |
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The UK Daily Star published a photo of Simon Cowell with a story on an actor's bid to have a "children's home near his mansion closed," Tabloid Watch spotted.
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As we have written, UK media outlets were asked to not run photos of Prince Harry naked, but the News Corp.-owned Sun decided Aug. 24 to run them anyway.
The Guardian reported that "more than 850... |
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Arthur Brisbane's final column as New York Times public editor repeated his 2010 calls for "transparency, accountability, humility" at the Times across its website, print product, mobile sites and so... |
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch revealed in a memo that he is examining the company's "current internal controls" to "identify ways in which we can enhance them," Radio Australia reported.
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Arizona CBS-affiliate KOLD-TV 13 is paying a blogger $300 after "using his video without permission," Jim Romenesko reported August 14.
The blogger, Michael McKisson, told Romenesko that "the... |
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The government of Myanmar will not make Burmese journalists have their stories reviewed prior to publication, the Associated Press reported.
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Malaysia's Center for Independent Journalism slammed Malaysian journalists who "overstepped their ethical and professional boundaries," and possibly "abused their position" as journalists, the group... |
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The Huffington Post recently published an article on... |
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The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism & Mass Communication's Stephen J.A. Ward suggested in a May 2012 post that there's a new type of media ethics --... |
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We wrote last week when a judge "struck down" an assistant principal's $3 million libel verdict against the Virginian-PIlot over a 2009... |
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The Washington Post will "review" Fareed Zakaria's columns for the newspaper in light of his apology for plagiarism, the New York Times reported.
As we wrote, Zakaria was suspended from Time and CNN after... |
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The Online Journalist Association is creating a "code of ethics for online journalists" this year, the Jakarta Post reported. The association is a group of "journalists from mainstream online media... |
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The Nelson Leader published a "clarification and apology" for a "reader's letter" containing errors about a woman's work "remuneration," which was described as "big bucks," the... |
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Fareed Zakaria apologized for "close similarities" in part of his column for Time magazine and a blog post on CNN to an April New Yorker report.
Zakaaria is an editor-at-large at Time and a CNN host, according... |
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The Western Mail apologized for writing "LOL" in a caption about a man's death, the UK Press Gazette reported. The caption read:
"Mid Wales airport manager Bob Jones, 60, who was killed in... |
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Gannett-owned Milford-Miami Advertiser must pay $100,000 to police officer James Young over a 2010 article accusing him of having "sex with a woman while on the job in 1997," which Young denied, the Cincinnati... |
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The Asian American Journalists Association created a "few guidelines" for reporting on the Aug. 5 shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The group's national president Doris Truong explained to... |
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Duluth Fox-affiliate Fox 21 KQDS's news director Jason Vincent apologized and resigned after one of his Facebook posts circulated, the Duluth News Tribune... |
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CNN apologized for playing the Billy Joel song "Only the Good Die young" after a July 6 report on the July 5 shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, Politico reported.
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An interesting discussion on the ethics of quoting and paraphrasing interviews is going on among journalists and linguists in the comments section of The University of Pennsylvania's Language Log's... |
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Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud claimed "state-owned media" reported "false news" about his client, the Muslim Brotherhood, Ahram reported.
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TIME magazine corrected a July 28 article after apparently lifting a quote and sentence from the New York Post's story reporting about a New York City grocery store's "man aisle." The TIME and Post... |
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As we wrote earlier this week, Jonah Lehrer's book Imagine was revealed to include fake quotes attributed to Bob Dylan. Now, his book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "is running digital ads" recalling the... |
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Iowa NBC-affiliate KWWL was subpoeaned for its "raw, unedited" footage of an interview with the mother of a missing child, Media Bistro's TV Spy reported.
The mother, Misty Cook Morrissey,... |
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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been charged with "conspiring to intercept the communications of at least 600 people between 2000 and 2006" including Brad Pitt, the Associated Press... |
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CNN apologized for playing Pink's song "Stupid Girls" "as an intro into a report about" Sarah Palin, The Hollywood Reporter wrote.
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A UK judge has called for Associated Newspapers to "pay £15,000 in privacy damages" for running "unpixellated pictures of a child whose alleged father is a 'philandering' politician" in... |
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While decisions about what photographs to run are up to editors, what are the responsibilities of the photojournalist to name the subjects of photographs in captions? Captions can go a long way towards humanizing a... |
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Undercover reporting and recording of a public relations firm was in the public interest, the Press Complaints Commission reported.
The PR firm, Bell Pottinger, complained that undercover taping of its executives giving... |
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The Associated Press has new social media guidelines that permit breaking news on Twitter, Journalism.co.uk reported.
As Journalism.co.uk explained, staff should first "provide full details to the appropriate... |
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As we have written, the Spokane Spokesman-Review was recently ordered to identify an anonymous commenter to a local Idaho Republican Party chairwoman who claimed the commenter defamed her.
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Rupert Murdoch resigned this month from the boards of "the NI Group, Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corp Investments in the UK," the UK Telegraph reported.
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ABC News apologized July 20 for linking James Holmes with the Tea Party, Politico reported. Holmes is the suspect in the killing of 12 and injuring of dozens at the Aurora, Colorado Dark Knight Rises midnight... |
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NPR's ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos wrote that the broadcaster practiced "sluggish journalism" by not identifying a source's advocacy group membership in two stories.
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Mitt Romney's campaign has challenged at least two Washington Post reports, and the newspaper has refused to retract the reports, as we have written.
In a July 2 column on the Romney articles, Kessler noted that The... |
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The Toronto Star's public editor Kathy English defended the newspaper's story on the five-year anniversary of Ed Mirvish's death.
Torontoist.com explained in a 2007 article on Mirvish's death that Mirvish... |
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Mali news website Mali Jet ran an old photo from Somalia with its coverage of a recent whipping in Mali, France's News 24 reported.
The photo shows a man who is chest-deep in a hole that is being circulated with... |
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Ireland's Press Ombudsman, John Horgan, spoke July 13 at the UK Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices about Ireland's media regulation system. During his testimony, Horgan addressed Ireland's... |
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The Camberley News and Mail apologized for invading the privacy of a girl by identifying her and her medical condition without her parents' approval, the UK Press Complaints Commission reported. The Camberley News... |
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The London Evening Standard clarified an article after a restaurant complained that the article said it made customers pay for tap water, the Press Complaints Commission reported.
While in one case, a customer did have... |
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The Chicago Sun-Times turned off comments and added an editor's note to an article about the death of an Obama campaign staff member, Alex Okrent.
The editor's note reads:
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The New York Times named its next public editor, Margaret M. Sullivan.
Sullivan's term as the fifth public editor begins Sept. 1, when current Times public editor Arthur Brisbane steps down. According to the... |
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A new website will record changes to The New York Times, CNN, BBC and POLITICO's websites, The Times' public editor Arthur Brisbane highlighted.
Effective June... |
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Utah Valley Magazine published an apology for a photo headline "Women of Color" that accompanied a photo of seven white women in brightly colored clothing, Jim Romenesko... |
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The Center for International Media Ethics' International Media Ethics Day is coming up!
CIME announced on its website the upcoming media ethics day, held on Sept.... |
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The Irish Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday settled a libel lawsuit by apologizing to a man they wrongly called a "convicted drug dealer" in two 2010 stories, the Irish Times... |
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The Washington Post's coverage of the late June storm that knocked out electricity in the D.C. area, "didn't pass the test," ombudsman Patrick Pexton wrote.
Pexton criticized the Post's... |
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The Greensboro, N.C. News & Record will only name crime victims if "there is a compelling reason to do so," according to an e-mail to staffers from the newspaper's editor, Jeff Gauger, published by Jim... |
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News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch admitted in a statement to the Leveson Inquiry that one of his reporters at News of the World "tried to threaten a woman" for one of the newspaper's high-profile stories, the Max... |
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National Public Radio unpublished and replaced an article that partially plagiarized with an editor's note, Poynter's Steve Myers... |
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Zambia got its first Media Council July 6, the Zambia Daily Mail reported.
The council will "conciliate, mediate and arbitrate" complaints about media ethics, and took "three years of planning and... |
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A journalist was arrested and charged for libeling Belarus's president for the second time in the past year, The New York Times reported.
Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza's Andrzej Poczobut, was "indicted... |
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The UK National Council for the Training of Journalists plans to help teach journalists on ethics, the Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported.
The council said in a June 28 submission to the UK Leveson Inquiry into... |
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Milwaukee news radio WTMJ is being sued for an interview the news subject claimed was "ambush journalism," Media Bistro's TV Spy reported.
WTMJ interviewed a school bus driver, Melissa Dumas, about... |
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The Hollywood Reporter wrongly attributed comments from a parody Twitter account to The New York Times public editor.
We wrote earlier this week about the parody Twitter account purporting to be Times public editor... |
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CNN will examine how it erred in its reporting on the health care ruling, Mediaite reported. As we wrote last week, CNN issued corrections through e-mail, Twitter, and its website after initially reporting that the U.S.... |
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The Tel Aviv Journalists Association quit the Israeli Press Council over the council's presidential election, which the association called "unethical," YNet News reported.
According to YNet News, the... |
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The Times of Malta reported that the Catholic Church held a "business breakfast themed Media Ethics," in late June.
At the breakfast, ethical issues of fact checking, spreading rumors, bribery, and... |
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The UK Supreme Court has ordered Glenn Mulcaire, the former News of the World private investigator who hacked phones for the now-closed News Corp. paper, to turn over "key phone-hacking details," such as who at the... |
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The New York Post's Page Six quoted from a parody Twitter account posing as New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane, Poynter's Julie Moos wrote.
The phony Twitter account, @timespublicedit, tweeted jokingly... |
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A Michigan school superintendent resigned a little more than a month after he apologized for plagiarism.
As we wrote in May, Barry was accused of plagiarizing "396 words out of 437" from an education blogger... |
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Irish public broadcaster RTE paid its former reporter Aoife Kavanagh "in the region of €25,000" for resigning after a segment she reported cost the Irish public broadcaster a hefty libel payout, lengthy... |
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The UK Press Complaints Commission rejected a complaint over The Sun's 2011 undercover reporting, according to an adjudication on the PCC's website.
For their Oct. 22 article, "The Sun Goes Undercover for... |
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The BBC Trust issued a mixed ruling on complaints against a BBC Radio 2 program's January coverage of the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that "wrecked" near Italy, killed 32 on... |
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The Sunday Times of London apologized and paid a former politician a libel settlement, the Press Gazette... |
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Related, The Times of London removed claims about a "former medical doctor" for a UK soccer team from an article. Nonetheless, the newspaper is being sued for the claims, but defends... |
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Trinidad and Tobago's president, George Maxwell Richards, called for the media to be independent, the Liberian Observer reported.
Richards also advocated press freedom in his talk at the International Press... |
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A Bloomberg TV ad wrongly claims that "its morning anchor, Betty Liu," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, MSNBC reported.
Bloomberg TV admitted the error, saying to MSNBC:
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New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane questioned the Times magazine's widely-read June 10 article "Prep-School Predators."
Brisbane wrote that the article, on "abuse by teachers at Horace Mann... |
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As a mother of young boys, I have had the age-old discussions with them about safety. I have instructed them rigorously on the many dangers in the world: strangers, drugs, cars,... |
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As we wrote yesterday, Connecticut newspaper New Canaan News apologized after revealing its reporter Paresh Jha fabricated in at least 25 stories. As we noted, Jha won two awards last month from the Connecticut Society... |
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Fiji TV announced a commitment to media ethics and to make its work more ethical, according to a Pacific Media Watch press release. Fiji TV's statement reads:
"Fiji TV acknowledges government’s... |
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The Scottish Sun apologized after unnecessarily identifying children in an April 29 story critical of their father, the PCC reported.
The man, a former teacher named John Forrester, complained that identifying the... |
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Jonah Lehrer apologized this week for re-using his own writing for other publications in his five blog posts for the New Yorker magazine, the New York Times reported. Lehrer is quoted as saying:
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Australian journalism professor Lawrie Zion set up a blog on "Best Practices" to host "best practices initiatives" like accuracy for online media, Journalism.co.uk reported. Zion "said he hopes... |
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The New Yorker added an editor's note to a June 12 article "Why Smart People are Stupid" to note that the author, Jonah Lehrer, self-plagiarized from his October 2011 Wall Street Journal... |
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Toronto Star public editor Kathy English asked readers if "queer" is considered "an offensive word when used as a collective label for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community" and... |
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Three UK newspapers have apologized for wrongly reporting in February that a man named Martin Hoskins "had frozen to death on an overnight fishing trip," Tabloid Watch reported.
The three apologies --... |
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The UK government announced a call to require online sites to provide the identity of anonymous commenters writing information accused of libel, the BBC reported. The UK has been known as a libel tourism destination... |
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The UK police are paying lawyer Mark Lewis a £230,000 libel settlement after the police "implied he lied to" a 2009 Parliament, the BBC reported. Lewis has defended many high profile victims of... |
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Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon resigned for "sharing certain unpublished news articles with Brett McGurk, then a member of the U.S. National Security Council in Iraq," the New York Observer reported a Dow... |
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We wrote earlier this year when a jury awarded a Texas couple $13.7 million in a libel lawsuit against online comments accusing them of "rape, drug dealing and molestation." The comments were posted on... |
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We wrote earlier this month about accusations of plagiarism against a column written by Fox News' Oliver North. North had quoted comments from a "dear friend" Sammy L. Davis, but it turned out... |
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Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden for questioning, CNN reported. As we wrote earlier this week, Assange appealed a UK Supreme Court ruling calling for his extradition, but according to CNN, the Supreme Court... |
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The Guardian didn't intentionally place a promotional supplement on Sri Lanka next to an article critical of Sri Lanka, but the accident will prompt the newspaper's editorial and commercial departments to... |
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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange is appealing the UK Supreme Court ruling calling for his extradition to Sweden, the Associated Press reported.
As we wrote in late May, the UK Supreme Court ruled for Assange to be... |
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According to a recent Mashable report, Forbes.com "authors, whether on staff or freelance, write their own headlines" and "press the public button themselves" and "no one edits their work. No one... |
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The (Long Beach) Beachcomber is selling advertorials, LA Observed reported.
According to the "pitch" from their "advertising rep," republished by LA Observed,
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The Poughkeepsie Journal apologized to the Daily Freeman and readers for a "thin rewrite" of the Freeman's story and some lifted phrases, Jim Romenesko wrote this... |
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