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Days after the secret subpoenas for phone records of the Associated Press came to light, the Obama administration announced it wants to make it easier for journalists to get similar subpoenas dropped by way of the Free... |
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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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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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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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"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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Ethics in journalism took another blow in Russia last month when the country's Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Alexei Volin, told journalism students and lecturers that reporting wasn't a... |
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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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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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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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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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Kenyan journalists were trained on "media ethics, election reporting and audience-led reporting" last month, according to a UNESCO report.
UNESCO, Kenya's Media Council, BBC Media Action and the Canadian... |
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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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Drone (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) journalism was the subject of an Oct. 22 Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism workshop, according to blogger Judith Townend in a post questioning drone ethics on her... |
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Comedian Frankie Boyle won his libel lawsuit against the UK Daily Mirror, according to the Guardian.
As iMediaEthics wrote last week, Boyle sued over a July 19, 2011 article headlined "Channel 4: We are back... |
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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 Freud Museum in London is hosting a conference on "Media Ethics and Emotional Wellbeing" Nov. 10.
The "one day symposium" runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to the Freud Museum... |
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The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead defended the Canadian newspaper's coverage of teenager Amanda Todd's death as "sensitive and complete."
Stead noted that the newspaper... |
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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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Brigham Young University journalism professor Joel Campbell called for journalism students to "have kind of a moral compass in what they do" during an October "lecture series," the... |
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Editors from the Hilton Head Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette, the Gullah Sentinel and the Savannah Morning News discussed journalism ethics in a recent Beaufort County Library "forum," according to Beaufort Gazette... |
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The forum Journalism Accelerator is hosting an interesting question for discussion: "How do you manage the ethical minefields of 'access journalism'?"
For example, the forum asked about quote approval... |
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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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White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan, a six-year-old advocacy group, announced in a press release sent to iMediaEthics Sept. 21 that it "will train journalists on gender sensitive... |
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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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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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The University of Central Oklahoma's upcoming "annual Media Ethics Conference" will focus on "sports, politics and news" reporting, according to a press release on the university's... |
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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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The University of Washington's Department of Communications is looking for a "full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor who focuses on journalism and communication ethics in a digital age," according to a... |
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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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Pursuing a global version of media ethics is a difficult charge on multiple fronts, akin to deciding on the rules of a new sport while in the middle of a match. Let’s consider two of those obstacles, drawn broadly from... |
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Commentary
CNN recently used much of the front page of its website to advertise Ketel One vodka. The advertisement went live July 12, 2012, and framed its homepage taking up more of the screen than the news. It was... |
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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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The Shelby County Commission is subpoenaing The Commercial Appeal for "the identities of anonymous commenters on its website," the newspaper reported itself.
The Commercial Appeal... |
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Twitter suspended the account of Independent journalist Guy Adams for tweeting the email address of NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel, Reuters reported.
Reuters reported that NBC Sports "confirmed that it had... |
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The New York Times highlighted a quote approval practice with U.S. 2012 presidential campaign reporters recently.
The July 15 New York Times article reported that press offices for presidential election campaigns can... |
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Science journalism ethics were discussed at the late June UK Conference of Science Journalists, the Guardian reported.
Some issues discussed at the annual conference included:
"should science journalists... |
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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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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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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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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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A media summit this week will focus on the media's future, journalism ethics, and objectivity, China's Global Times reported. The event, the World Media Summit, will be held in Moscow July 5-7 and will include... |
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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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UK Prime Minister David Cameron testified before the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices last... |
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Turkey's Media Ethics Platform developed a code of ethics specifically with guidance for online journalism, Turkish journalist Yonca Poyraz Dogan, a member of the platform, wrote recently.
As we have written,... |
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is ending its public editor position, according to a May 25 column by its outgoing public editor Shawn McIntosh.
McIntosh wrote that he is leaving the position for a "new role... |
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Exclusive: Since January 17, iMediaEthics has tried, and failed, to get the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) New York chapter, The Deadline Club, to answer two simple questions about its annual contest, billed as... |
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Former UK prime minister Tony Blair appeared at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices today. According to the Guardian's live blog, he is "the first former prime minister to give evidence to... |
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At a sports journalism workshop focusing on the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Malawi journalists were advised to "observe ethics in sports journalism by focusing much on reporting the performances of the athletes than... |
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As we wrote May 8, the Seattle police subpoenaed Seattle TV news KIRO-7 and five other news outlets (KOMO-4, KING-5 TV, KIRO-7, KCPQ-13 TV, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) for footage from May 1... |
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The Age's editor-in-chief, Paul Ramadge, defended the newspaper's access of the "ALP electoral database in the lead-up to the 2010 state election," the Australian reported.
See here The... |
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In the past year, there have been two reviews of Australia's media. The Finkelstein Inquiry, as we have written, was announced in September 2011 and published in late February. The inquiry called for a... |
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The UK police is charging UK "literary entertainment" magazine the Spectator for "breaching reporting restrictions" over a November article published during the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, the Guardian... |
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Ghana's Journalists Association called for a broadcasting law to help avoid the broadcast of "abusive, threatening, hate speech or otherwise provocative language," Ghana Web... |
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Cambodia's Phnom Penh Post published an article calling for the country to create "an independent self-regulation mechanism and a journalists' code of ethics."
The article was by UNESCO representative... |
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During an April workshop called "Media Coverage Monitoring and Enhancement during the Democratic Transitional Phase" in Egypt, journalists discussed "the negative and positive aspects of the media... |
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We are looking for journalism and design interns for this summer and fall. iMediaEthics is a not-for-profit, non-partisan media ethics news website. (Check out our About Us here.)
iMediaEthics needs journalism... |
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The Seattle Police Department has subpoenaed Seattle news outlets for video of protests earlier this month, the Seattle Stranger's associate editor Eli Sanders reported.
In a May 7 story, CBS-affiliate KIRO-TV 7... |
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India's Press Council chairman Markandey Katju called for a better regulation system for the country's media in an editorial in The Hindu. Katju wrote that his "ideas on this issue have generated some... |
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Turkish journalists and academics discussed the media's effect on children at an April 5 workshop “Medya ve Çocuk” (Media and Children), Today's Zaman... |
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Loyola University Chicago's The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy announced a call for papers for its annual International Symposium on Digital... |
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A December 2011 column by the BBC's Jeremy Clarkson for UK News Corp-owned The Sun prompted "a complaint from five charities" to the UK Press Complaints Commission, according to a PCC's news... |
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The Washington Post's public editor Patrick Pexton weighed in on the recent resignation of Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock.
As we wrote, after Flock resigned from the Washington Post last week, the newspaper... |
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Swaziland's government Press Secretary Percy Simelane called for foreign journalists to abide by ethics and get accreditation before coming to Swalizand to report, The Times of South Africa... |
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A March story in the New York Daily News caught iMediaEthics' publisher Rhonda Roland Shearer's eye.
The story's byline... |
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CNN correspondent Susan Candiotti and CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield both apologized after Candiotti said "profanities" from a Facebook post during an April 8 segment on the shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Media... |
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James Murdoch resigned as BSkyB chairman April 3, USA Today reported. He will still be the deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation, according to USA... |
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Huffington Post bloggers suing the Huffington Post/AOL for a portion of the money AOL paid to acquire Huffington Post last year will not be getting a payday, the Guardian reported.
According to the Guardian, a U.S.... |
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Journalism professor Herbert Lowe discussed how to handle students skipping class to "do journalism" in a recent post for Poynter.
Lowe, a professor at Marquette University, explained that two of his students... |
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Current TV fired TV host Keith Olbermann this past week with four years to go on his contract. According to the New York Times, Olbermann was "just a year into his five-year, $50 million... |
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Four media groups announced they will monitor radio and television outlets to see if the broadcasters violate the Ghana Journalists Association's code of ethics, My Joy Online reported.
The groups -- The Media... |
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UK's Alternative Libel Project proposed a way to avoid "eye-popping costs" in libel lawsuits, Journalism.co.uk reported.
According to the Index on Censorship, the project is "the result of a... |
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Belhaven University's Communications Department is hosting a March 29 media ethics panel, according to a press release on its website.
According to the press release, the conference will include ethics in... |
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Journalists discussed undercover reporting, the UK phone hacking scandal, media reguation, social media and more at a Toronto Star-sponsored March 21 media ethics panel discussion, the Toronto Star... |
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News Corp.-owned Times of London won a Supreme Court appeal in the libel case against its 2006 article on Gary Flood and found the article to be in the public interest, Journalism.co.uk reported. According to the Press... |
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Myanmar's Ministry of Information and UNESCO co-organized a two-day conference earlier this week, Asian news site Asian Correspondent reported.
According to Asian Correspondent, the March 19-20 conference... |
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The Guardian explained in a March 14 post how it verified the "cache of 3,000 emails" from Syria's leader Bashar al... |
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News sites have taken down stories about 13-year-old Malia Obama, one of U.S. President Barack Obama's daughters, Mediaite... |
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Readers questioned the Toronto Star's detailed coverage of the murder of 8-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, Toronto Star public editor Kathy English wrote.
Stafford "vanished" in April 2009 and police... |
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Advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to guarantee the "safety" of Liberian journalist Mae Azango, who reportledy has been threatened following... |
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Morocco's Ministry of Communication addressed media ethics, media regulation and more during a March 10 "study day," Magharebia reported.
Morocco's National Press Syndicate president Younes Moujahid... |
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COMMENTARY
This past week, Sarah McInerney, a reporter for the Sunday Times of Ireland, contacted us for our thoughts on the high profile cases involving Ireland's public broadcaster RTE.
The two big... |
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Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism announced a call for papers from "Faculty, doctoral students and practitioners" for its September 2012 conference "Journalism Ethics:... |
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Columbia Journalism Review's Ryan Chittum questioned Bloomberg News's lack of reporting on its owner, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
As a noteworthy example: Bloomberg's top twenty list... |
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The European Journalism Centre,an "independent, international, non-profit institute dedicated to the highest standards in journalism," is accepting entries for the first Data Journalism Awards until April.
By... |
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PJR Reports criticized some of the Filipino media's coverage of tropical storm Sendong, which hit the Philippines in December of last year, for being insensitive and unhelpful. Sendong led to "more than 1,000... |
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The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication announced a call for papers about media ethics in a recent news announcement on its website
The AEJMC identifies itself as a "nonprofit,... |
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The Australian government published an "independent report" analyzing media regulation called for a new "News Media Council" with regulatory powers over media outlets, UK "financial information"... |
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The Press Complaints Commission announced it is closing to "offer the press a clean break from the past," according to the Associated Press and the Guardian. The PCC has existed for 21 years, the Guardian... |
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Pakistani media violated journalism ethics in its reporting on rape, Pakistan's Express Tribune reported.
Most recently, the media sensationalized news reports on a teenager named Uzma Ayub, who says she was... |
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Canada's Mental Health Commission studied print and broadcast news reports and found that "media coverage of mental illness in Canada is overwhelmingly negative," the Windsor Star reported. The commission... |
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The International Academy of Journalism is accepting applications for its "Journalism in the Digital World" fellowship program until May 7, My Joy Online reported. The academy "develops and organizes... |
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The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation gave the Oklahoma City University's Mass Communications department a $50,000 grant to help pay for the department's "10-episode series" called "Ethics... |
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The Center for International Media Ethics interviewed U.S. journalist Bill Kovach about his career for the center's February 2012 newsletter.
Some of the topics in the center's Q & A included sensationalism... |
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Washington, D.C. reporter Andrea McCarren stepped off the air for a week after her children were "harassed" over her reports, the Washington Post reported.
McCarren had been... |
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The Media Foundation for West Africa and Danish Association of Investigative Journalists hosted a seminar called "National seminar on the programme for African Investigative Reporting," according to a news release... |
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The New England Newspaper & Press Association's Journalism Education Foundation is accepting applications for its annual awards, according to the association's press release.
The scholarships are worth $1,000... |
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Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications hosted a media "syposium" Feb. 23 to discuss how the media reports on "accusations of child sex abuse against sport coaches," the... |
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The Washington Journalism and Media Conference will be held at George Mason University July 8-13, 2012.
The conference is for "high school student leaders" who are "outstanding sophomores and... |
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The Center for Journalism Ethics is holding its annual conference April 13 in Wisconsin at Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. This year's theme is "Ethics & Elections: Media, Money and Power in... |
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The Center for International Media Ethics (CIME) and the Bhutan Media Institute are hosting a forum in Thimphu, Bhutan April 18-April 19, according to an announcement on its... |
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News Corp.'s new weekly Sunday newspaper, the Sun on Sunday, launched Feb. 26 and announced a "commitment to high ethical standards," the Guardian reported.
In a page 12 editorial, "A New Sun Rises... |
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Entries for the 2012 Agahi Awards have been extended to March 5, the awards organization wrote Feb. 24.
The awards are described as the "1st Journalism Awards in Pakistan" and feature 15 categories including... |
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The Media Council of Malawi's media accreditation program may be shut down, BizCommunity.com reported. The Malawi Media Council identifies itself as "an independent, non-profit, non-political and... |
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Pat Buchanan was "dropped" by MSNBC after working for the network for ten years, according to the Associated Press.
Buchanan had been suspended for four months after his latest book Suicide of a Superpower was... |
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Fiji Media Watch questioned a new Fiji media "decree" and its potential effect on media independence, according to Radio Australia. Fiji Media Watch is a group created in response to public criticism of... |
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The Sun's associate editor Trevor Kavanagh weighed in on this past weekend's arrests of five of his newspaper's journalists in the UK investigation into police bribery. Kavanagh labeled the way... |
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During January 2012's Leveson Inquiry into UK press standards, UK group the Science Media Centre recommended a series of guidelines for science reporting, the UK Telegraph and Columbia Journalism Review... |
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The UK police arrested five "senior journalists" from News Corp-owned The Sun and three members of the UK police or public service Feb. 11, the Guardian reported.
The other three... |
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The Press Complaints Commission ruled that the Luton Herald & Post violated the PCC's code of practice with a headline "[Luton and Dunstable] 'pervert is found dead." The Luton Herald & Post is a... |
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The Press Complaints Commission announced Feb. 9 that its director, Stephen Abell, "will be leaving the PCC at the end of February."
According to the PCC's press release on the issue, Abell resigned from... |
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The Indonesian Press Council has released its "cyber media guidelines," which were "officiated" Feb. 3, press council member Zulfiani Lubis told iMediaEthics by e-mail.
We wrote in December... |
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A new blog, Saving Ethical Journalism, was launched in late December 2011 by two journalists, David DesRoches and Patricia Gay.
DesRoches told iMediaEthics they are "looking for contributors." ... |
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The UK police arrested four journalists and a police officer on January 28 as part of an investigation into "police corruption" called Operation Elveden, the Guardian reported.
As we have written, the UK... |
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Malaysia's National Union of Journalists proposed a "fair reporting pledge" for its members, Malaysian news site Malaysia Kini... |
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A former Indian state ombudsman, Santoch N Hegde, called for self-regulation in Mysore's media at a Jan. 26 journalism discussion, Star of Mysore reported. The discussion, "Journalism and Accountability,"... |
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Journalist Julian Sanchez accused the New York Times of publishing a "very light, very lazy rewrite" of a 2008 article he co-wrote with Dave Weigel, "Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?" In his... |
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We have written about the U.S. government's training of journalists in countries previously. In September 2010, the U.S. government sent University of North Texas interim dean Mitchell Land to Liberia to help train... |
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Andrew Adler, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Jewish Times, resigned this week over his controversial article suggesting a "hit" on U.S. President Barack Obama, the Jerusalem Post reported.
See... |
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The Guardian's Roy Greenslade questioned the balance in the UK Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices in a January 11 blogpost.
According to Greenslade, the inquiry has had "inconsistencies" in... |
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Linda Clark, a former political editor for New Zealand TV news outlet, TVNZ, argued that New Zealand's self-regulatory model is "outdated" in a column for the New Zealand Herald.
Clark was "New... |
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The UK broadcast regulator OfCom "revoked the UK license of Iranian state broadcaster Press TV," Journalism.co.uk reported.
According to Journalism.co.uk, the station was warned three months ago about its... |
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German president Christian Wulff apologized for his "angry call" to Bild's editor Kai Diekmann and described the call a "serious mistake" in an interview with ARD and ZDF television, according to the... |
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A Northern Ireland court dismissed the call for the BBC to provide police with its footage from an April 2011 parade, Journalism.co.uk reported. The police wanted the footage to identify participants of "a... |
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The UK Audit Bureau of Circulation [ABC UK] found that Wall Street Journal Europe's arrangement with a Dutch company didn't violate any rules, Paid Content reported. As we wrote in October, the Wall Street... |
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The Manitoba Press Council has begun the process of closing.
According to a Jan. 2 article in the Brandon Sun, "the publishers of the Winnipeg Free Press, the Brandon Sun, the Portage Daily Graphic and the Manitoba... |
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Blogger Crystal Cox was ordered to pay $2.5 million for a defamatory posting on her blog. The case brings up issues of defamation, anonymous sources, shield laws, and who is and isn't a journalist. However, the... |
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The Bahrain Journalists Association is working on finalizing a draft code of ethics, Gulf News reported Jan. 4. The Bahrain Journalists' Association is calling for contributions from the public and... |
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The UK Leveson Inquiry is reviewing the "culture, practice and ethics of the press," as we have written.
The inquiry's hearings started Nov. 14, but the inquiry was launched in July amidst growing... |
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India's prime minister called on the country's journalists to avoid sensationalism in reporting and promote "objectivity and encouragement," Indian news site MoneyControl.com reported.
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The European Journalism Observatory wrote Dec. 28 about Freedom of Expression – A European Challenge, a book on Albania's press and its freedom. The book was written by Albanian journalist Sokol Balla.
The... |
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The owner and CEO of the San Diego Union-Tribune defended their call for the newspaper be a "cheerleader" for San Diego in a Dec. 15 interview with San Diego public broadcasting station KPBS, MediaBistro... |
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A New Jersey township's Board of Education dropped its plan to ban access to certain reporters, the Asbury Park Press reported.
Under the now-dismissed plan, the Jackson school board would essentially be able to... |
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Russian magazine editor Maxim Kovalsky was fired because the magazine, Kommersant Vlast, "published a picture of a ballot paper from last week's parliamentary vote with the words 'Putin, go f---... |
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Media Ethics magazine's co-publisher Tom Cooper sent iMediaEthics a press release about the magazine's fall issue. According to the press release, Media Ethics "will no longer publish a print... |
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iMediaEthics publishes at least two stories on media ethics news each day called Daily Media Picks or Media Briefs. See below the top ten most read daily media picks and briefs from 2011.
10. Did... |
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The Canadian Association of Journalists' ethics advisory committee created an updated "best practices in digital accuracy and corrections."
The committee published its results in mid-November... |
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See our top ten most read 2011 columns, investigations, and book reviews:
10. Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone's Graphic Novel Approach to Journalism: Our Oct. 3 story reviewed NPR's Brooke... |
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Editor's Note: Many college newspapers publish police blotters, which in today's online world, link students to their youthful indiscretions permanently. Often, these crimes are non-violent. Should... |
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The Standard-Examiner's executive editor Andy Howell apologized in a Dec. 17 column for publishing a photoshopped image on its front page Nov. 27.
According to Howell's column, the fake image pictured a... |
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Did ESPN and the Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper violate ethical standards by not revealing accusations against recently fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine?
The Associated Press reported on... |
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The UK National Union of Journalists criticized the UK police's order for BBC News, ITN News and UTV News to give its un-aired video from an August Northern Ireland parade, Journalism.co.uk reported.
According to a... |
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UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt commented in late November that he thinks the UK print regulatory body the Press Complaints Commission will be replaced by a new regulation system with more powers of enforcement, the... |
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Editors Weblog questioned if there should be an "ethical code for cartoonists" in light of Urban Tulsa Weekly cartoonist David Simpson and Columbia Dispatch's Jeff Stahler both being accused of plagiarism. Both... |
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New Zealand may see a "super watchdog" to regulate all media -- whether it be online or in print, traditional or new media, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The proposal was made by New Zealand's Law Commission in a... |
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We've written numerous times on guidelines for reporting on suicides and murders. But, how do you report when the victim worked in the same newsroom?
Kansas City, Missouri TV news station Fox-affiliate... |
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The Harvard Crimson reported that Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Howard Gardner advised that ethics education must be emphasized. Gardner's comments, made in a Dec. 1 speech, included that educators... |
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Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications by Jay Black and Chris Roberts
"Who wins, who loses? Why not follow the rules?" These ethics questions are among those journalists and... |
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The New Yorker' and its film critic David Denby violated an embargo on reviewing the soon-to-be released English film re-make of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Denby's review for its Dec. 12 issue (see here)... |
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The UK Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, spoke to the UK City University London journalism school Dec. 1 about his taking newspapers to court this year. Grieve's speech (see here) was titled "Contempt - A Balancing... |
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Joseph Epstein questioned "how gossip took over the news" in a Nov. 26 post for Salon excerpted from his book "Gossip."
Epstein noted that more and more, gossip reports are published in mainstream... |
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The Organization of News Ombudsmen published a handbook for the public and its ombudsmen (also known as public editor or readers' editor) members. The 51-page guide, "The Modern News Ombudsmen: A User's... |
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RTE is apologizing again for its libelous claims that a Catholic priest raped "an underage girl" and fathered her child. RTE also issued a statement Nov. 23 calling the error "the most serious editorial... |
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James Murdoch resigned from his positions on the boards of two UK publishing groups, News Group Newspapers Limited and Times Newspapers Limited, the UK Telegraph reported.
According to the Telegraph, "The... |
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A Turkish media group has created and published an ethics guide for its country's journalists, the International Center for Journalists reported.
The group has also created a website called Media Ethics Platform... |
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| The chairman of an Australian government inquiry into print media standards suggested that the council start to address all media complaints and that the press council fine journalists and news outlets if they break... |
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During last week's hearings from the Leveson Inquiry (see our report on the first day of the Leveson hearing here), News International's legal representation Rhodri Davies admitted that there was not a "rogue... |
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RTE announced that press ombudsman John Horgan will review the Irish public broadcaster's "editorial processes."
Last month, StinkyJournalism wrote when RTE apologized to priest Father Reynolds after one... |
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BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten defended independent regulation of the UK press at the UK Society of Editors' conference, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Patten argued that government regulation of the... |
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| UK News Corp-owned The Times of London is appealing a 2006 libel case to the UK Supreme Court, Journalism.co.uk reported.
The Times' 2006 story reported "on a police investigation into allegations against Gary Flood,... |
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| The San Antonio Express-News' public editor Bob Richter weighed in on the recently published video of Texas family law judge William Adams "beating his daughter with a belt." -- a video Richter called "brutish... |
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| The Guardian's readers' editor associate editor Leslie Plommer announced the Guardian has created "a new web page -- entitled accuracy and standards" which will host the news outlet's guidelines and standards... |
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| Lebanon's media council, the National Audiovisual Media Council, wants "all news websites" including blogs to "register" with the council, Now Lebanon reported.
The council, which was established in 1996,... |
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| Juan Williams penned an article reflecting on the past 12 months for Fox News Oct. 25. Williams, as StinkyJournalism has written, was fired from NPR Oct. 2010 after commenting on Fox News' Bill O'Reilly show that he... |
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| Indian media watchdog site The Hoot criticized "healthcare coverage in the Indian media" in an Oct. 26 column by Kalpana Sharma.
According to Sharma, "a spot check" of top newspapers in India shows that... |
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The PCC announced Oct. 13 that a former member of Parliament, Lord David Hunt, has been named the print regulatory body's new chairman, Journalism.co.uk reported.
Hunt began his term Oct. 17. In... |
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During a late September media ethics conference, 75 Liberian journalists agreed to "preach peace prior, during and after Liberia's October 11, 2011 presidential and legislative elections," the Heritage... |
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The Montreal Gazette's Misty Narris commented on journalists who cross over to entertainment in a recent column.
Narris highlighted the case of CNN's Anderson Cooper, who both reports news for CNN and crosses... |
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| As StinkyJournalism has previously written, a Quebec, Canada politician has proposed licensing journalists. (See our stories here and here). But now will the UK look into a similar move, following the phone hacking... |
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| StinkyJournalism wrote last month about Quebec culture minister Christine St-Pierre's calls to license journalists. Journalists groups like the Federation of Professional Journalists in Quebec have supported her call, with... |
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Tanzanian journalists attending Tanzania Sports Writers' Association workshop last weekend were advised on sports reporting, the Daily News... |
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| In light of the UK phone hacking scandal, much debate has focused on the purpose and future of the UK press complaints commission, a media regulatory body.
A summary: As Stinky Journalism has written, UK deputy prime... |
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Of the handful of books StinkyJournalism has featured in our Books, Authors and News Organizations series, Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine is easily the most breezy read.
The book used a graphic novel... |
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| Pakistani journalist Amir Zia asserted that his nation's journalists need to carefully watch their reporting for libelous and sensational comments, Pakistan's The Express Tribune reported.
Zia's comments were made... |
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Jacksonville, Florida TV station First Coast News apologized Sept. 16 for inaccurately labeling a man named George H.G. Hall in its stories about "two local pain management clinics that were raided by federal agents and... |
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| Several reporters in Ethiopia made the news this month for being arrested or charged with crimes. One, Argaw Ashine, reportedly claims that his interrogation was a result of being named in an unredacted WikiLeaks cable. ... |
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| Is libel law different online than in print? Or, was a recent Canadian libel suit dismissed just because the comments were opinion?
An Ontario judge dismissed a libel case filed by blogger John Baglow against blogger... |
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| Los Angeles Times readers have again complained about the newspaper's "wraparound" advertisements, LATimes readers representative Deirdre Edgar wrote Sept. 15.
As Edgar explained, the Sept. 15 issue of the... |
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| Michael Arrington announced yesterday that he was leaving TechCrunch after more than a week of confusion about his job and a new AOL-backed investment fund.
TechCrunch describesitself as a six-year-old "technology... |
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| In his Aug. 27 column, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane criticized NYT's "financial news service" section, DealBook, and suggested the site features too much news on the players and ... |
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| A North Dakota community news editor wrote a column protesting his newspaper's owners, North Dakota news site Inforum reported.
The editor, Lee Morris, wrote a "scathing column about concerns" with the newspaper,... |
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Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism. (Credit: UBC Press)
Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism, which describes itself as the "first book on Canadian journalism ethics," focuses on... |
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MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews suggested June 6 that Huma Abedin, wife of Rep. Anthony Weiner, may be “partly responsible” for his behavior, according to Mediaite. Weiner had stated in a... |
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John Hamer is president and co-founder of the Washington News Council. (Credit: Washington News Council)
The Minnesota News Council's January 2011 closing leaves just one news council in the U.S. still active -- the... |
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