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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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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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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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With the Supreme Court considering two cases involving same-sex marriage, it may be useful to review how opposed the public might be to decisions that would strike down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and California’s... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Women in Journalism, which identifies itself as a "networking, campaigning, training and social organisation for women journalists," studied UK newspapers from mid-April to mid-May to survey women's presence on... |
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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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Sri Lankan newspaper Lakbima News apologized Sept. 16 for a Sept. 9 cartoon that was slammed as unacceptable. The cartoon depicted "the Indian Prime Minister underneath an uplifted sari of the Chief Minister of... |
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Egyptian TV news anchor Fatma Nabil broke "decades of secular dress code" Sept. 2 by "wearing the hijab" on air, the Guardian reported.
According to the Guardian, which posted a video of Nabil's... |
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Readers complained about the Globe and Mail's front page photo of "an unsmiling woman in a niqab with the words 'Muslims Among Us' written across the black cloth of the garment," and the headline... |
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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled that an Ontario TV "religious call-in program" broke the ethics code of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, Broadcaster Magazine reported.
Listeners... |
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The Asian American Journalists Association created a "few guidelines" for reporting on the Aug. 5 shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The group's national president Doris Truong explained to... |
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Duluth Fox-affiliate Fox 21 KQDS's news director Jason Vincent apologized and resigned after one of his Facebook posts circulated, the Duluth News Tribune... |
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Hilary Hanson's lede in The Huffington Post August 1 article "Body Painting World Record Attempt Leads to Thong Shortage in Cork, Ireland" read:
“They may have the potato problem under... |
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The New York Times named its next public editor, Margaret M. Sullivan.
Sullivan's term as the fifth public editor begins Sept. 1, when current Times public editor Arthur Brisbane steps down. According to the... |
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Seventeen magazine's editor-in-chief Ann Shoket announced a "commitment" against "airbrushing or Photoshopping," Metro reported.
In a note, Shoket wrote that she had "heard from some girls... |
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As described in an earlier report on this website, a new iMediaEthics poll found about 7 in 10 Americans tolerant of gay marriage – that is, they would not be upset if most or all states recognized such... |
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The Polish Journalists Association's Media Ethics Council found that two Polish radio hosts were xenophobic in comments about the Euro 2012 soccer match between Ukraine and Sweden, Poland's The News... |
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A new PollCheck poll by iMediaEthics reveals a great deal more public tolerance of gay marriage than what most news stories report. Instead of a highly polarized public, in fact about 7 in 10 Americans are “not... |
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SurveyUSA interviewed 893 adults nationwide, Monday 06/04/12 through Wednesday 06/06/12. Research conceptualized and commissioned by iMediaEthics.org. Adults reachable on a home telephone (69% of respondents) were... |
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Toronto Star public editor Kathy English asked readers if "queer" is considered "an offensive word when used as a collective label for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community" and... |
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CNN's Ashleigh Banfield issued a clarification after being criticized for her comments on homosexuality and pedophilia.
Banfield said May 31 that "pedophilia is not by choice" but "homosexuality is a... |
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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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Reno, Navada ABC-affiliate KOLO-TV 8 apologized for a "poorly written play on words" grouping gay marriage in which "sin" like "quickie divorces, prostitution, gambling," Media Bistro's TV... |
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Irish businessman Denis O'Brien sent a letter to Independent Newspapers claiming it has "one of the most concerted and biased campaigns ever waged against any individual" in Ireland, as well as engaging in... |
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Conservative political magazine National Review has fired two employees in the past week because of "racially-inflammatory" comments.
On April 7, the... |
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Rutgers University student satire newspaper The Medium published an April 4 column "What about the good things Hitler did?" under the name of a Jewish student who didn't write the column, the Associated Press... |
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Argentine newspaper Clarin must "publish a rectification" online and in print of a 2009 story headline that a court determined "discriminates against women," according to the Knight Center for Journalism... |
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Cyprus's media ethics committee criticized the Cyprus press for "the way the media deals with foreigners’ deaths, raising issues of “adverse discrimination”," according to the Cyprus... |
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In January, advocacy group White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan, a group that focuses on "involving and sensitizing the media" and campaigning "to end violence against women," announced its plans to create a... |
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TIME magazine apologized, sort of, for featuring a non-Latino on its March 5 cover, titled "Yo Decido: Why Latinos will pick the next President." The cover image (See above) shows twenty faces of men and... |
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The Asian American Journalists Association issued a Feb. 22 "media advisory" for reporting on Jeremy Lin.
Lin is a basketball player for the... |
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Anchor Roland Martin was suspended from CNN over his "homophobic tweets during the Super Bowl," the New York Daily News reported.
Tweets included (here, here and here):
“If a dude at your Super... |
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White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan is hosting a National Conference on Gender and Media in March, the group's Omer Aftab told iMediaEthics by e-mail.
The conference will be held on International Women's Day March 8.... |
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The Weekly Standard, a "weekly conservative magazine," apologized to its e-mail subscribers after its "vetting process broke down" and the site accidentally sent readers a "paid ad from a third... |
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A Pakistani gender issues conference called Gender Sensitive Reporting called for "a gender sensitive code of ethics for media reporting," according to Pakistani news sites The News and DAWN. The conference was... |
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Gawker's Seth Abramovitch was fired Jan. 5 after his blogpost about rapper Kanye West's tweets, the New York Observer reported. Abramovitch's Jan. 5 post (see here) included the "n-word," which Gawker... |
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At least 23 complaints have been filed with the BBC over comments made by Jeremy Clarkson on air Dec. 28. Clarkson "made a string of jokes about the Indian food, clothes, toilets, trains and even the... |
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Four groups are calling for the UK Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices to examine the way media presents and reports on women, the Guardian reported.
The groups -- End Violence Against Women, Equality Now,... |
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The publisher of Jackie magazine, which called Rihanna a "n---- b----," reportledy claimed the magazine did "nothing wrong" with its report. Instead, he argued that Eva Hoeke, the magazine's... |
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Dutch fashion magazine editor Eva Hoeke stepped down this week because of a controversial article about singer Rihanna in which her magazine, Jackie, called Rihanna "the ultimate n**** b****," the Associated... |
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The UK Guardian published a study Dec. 6 revealing that 77.4% of surveyed bylines from seven UK newspapers' June 13 to July 8 editions belong to men, according to Journalism.co.uk.
The Guardian's research... |
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| The Guardian published an article by Harold A. Maio questioning why the media refers to "'the' mentally ill," which Maio says adds a "stigma" to those will mental illnesses.
Maio, described as a... |
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| StinkyJournalism is shocked and disappointed to see the sexist and cavalier commentary by CBS MoneyWatch's Alain Sherter published on CBSNews.com's website.
The story reads:
"Confronted by two topless young women... |
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Boston, Massachusetts Catholic newspaper The Pilot retracted and unpublished a column "suggesting homosexuality is caused by the devil," GantDaily.com reported.
According to GantDaily, the column was retracted... |
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| Brazilian lawyer Isaac Duarte de Barros Júnior was convicted in July 2011 after writing an article for newspaper that contained racist statements, Survival International reported. His December 2008 article was for... |
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| ESPN is being criticized for photoshopping an image of professional football quaterback Michael Vick to make him a white man. The image accompanied ESPN the Magazine's story "What if Michael Vick were... |
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| Preacher Harold Camping tells ABC News to expect the Rapture on May 21, 2011 (Credit: ABC News, screenshot)
Another Apocalypse is predicted for October 21, 2011. Will radio host Harold Camping and his followers again... |
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Valerie Alia, pictured above, presenting her inaugural lecture as Running Stream Professor of Ethics and Identity, Leeds Metropolian University, UK. (Photo provided)The New Media Nation, the latest book by Valerie Alia, a... |
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| ELLE magazine is under fire for its cover photo of plus-size, African-American actress Gabourey Sidibe.
Bloggers are accusing the fashion magazine of lightening Sidibe's skin. Also, ELLE has been criticized for... |
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| This detail of a screenshot from a CNN interview on YouTube shows the results of Pew's most recent poll on Obama's religion. (Credit: YouTube, CNN)
In recent days, there has been a flurry of news stories commenting on recent... |
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Inside Higher Ed writes:
"In September of 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Idaho were both embarrassed when they were forced to admit that they had doctored promotional photographs... |
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| If the Washington Post uses low standardized test scores as evidence for innate female “dimness,” is the same argument for African-Americans' genetic inferiority far... |
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