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A discussion on Photoshopping images in the news was recently brought up after a New York Times editor told public editor Margaret Sullivan that she almost doctored a photo of a model to make the model less... |
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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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The UK Press Complaints Commission announced last week that it is working on new guidance related to "transgender issues."
In creating this guidance, the PCC said it plans to "consult with representatives... |
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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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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... |
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Comcast SportsNet Chicago fired sports reporter Susannah Collins earlier this month, according to the sports media website Sherman Report.
The May 3 firing came just days after she botched her comments about a Chicago... |
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South Korean news organization Yonhap News Agency published a strange side-by-side image of South Korea's president Park Geun-hye with President Barack Obama apparently shaking hands. It's odd because it creates an... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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The BBC announced that it fired sports broadcaster Stuart Hall the same day that UK prosecutors confirmed he "pleaded guilty to 14 indecent assaults on young girls" between 1967 and 1986, the Associated Press... |
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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... |
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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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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"... |
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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,... |
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Oops! Yahoo News wrongly used a picture of director John Singleton with a news story about The Office actor John Krasinski joining the upcoming season of Arrested Development.
Gawker, which posted a screenshot of... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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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The Kansas City Star fact checks letters to the editor before publication, according to the newspaper's public editor Derek Donovan.
But, in an April 12 case, the paper missed an error in a letter about Rep. Paul... |
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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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In the four days since the Boston Marathon explosion, 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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The Daily News, the New York Post, the Hollywood Reporter, the 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... |
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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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Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver... |
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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... |
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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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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,... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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A college newspaper is again the subject of a libel lawsuit.
The... |
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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... |
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The UK Metro has unpublished a Jan. 21 article containing a fake quote about the possibility of a Neanderthal clone... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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A student at Florida A & M University has sued two Florida media outlets -- Florida A & M University's The Famuan and ABC-affiliate WFTV -- for wrongly reporting that he was disciplined because of fellow student... |
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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. ... |
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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, €150,000 in damages for libeling him in a 2010 article.... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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ESPN's Grantland questioned Sony Music's 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... |
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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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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, Héctor Timerman.
The... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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Falkland Islands newspaper the Penguin News made up an interview with Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, the Knight Center for Journalism in Americas reported.
The made-up interview was published in the... |
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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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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,"... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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.
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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... |
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Yesterday, CNN deleted information from its live blog on the search for former 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,... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 was going to work for Al Jazeera... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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El Pais ombudsman Tomàs Delclós has responded to the newspaper's high-profile failure in publishing a fake photo purporting to be of Hugo... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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Daily Spanish newspaper El Pais ran a fake photo of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on its front page and briefly online, the Guardian reported. According to Mondo Times, El Pais has a "circulation of... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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'... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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Check out iMediaEthics' top ten fake photos and wrong photos from... |
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CNN's Matt Dornic told iMediaEthics that 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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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)... |
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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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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... |
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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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And yet another apology and financial settlement has been made in the UK 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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A News International spokesperson sent iMediaEthics the following statement in response to the report:
"Statement from Tom Mockridge, Chief Executive Officer, News International
"We are grateful to Lord... |
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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... |
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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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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,... |
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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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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... |
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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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"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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Lord McAlpine, the retired politician who settled with the BBC for £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... |
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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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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... |
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The Journal Register Co.'s Matt DeRienzo addressed the need for prominent corrections in a Nov. 18 column about a significant error in the Register Citizen.
The Register Citizen had reported that the... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 Repulican presidential candidate Herman Cain, according to the... |
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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... |
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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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BBC director-general George Entwistle resigned Nov. 10, "after just 54 days in the job" the day after the British public broadcaster apologized for a child sex abuse report aired on its Newsnight program. In... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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,"... |
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