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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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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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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 Fars News Agency, which has ties to the Iranian government, unpublished an April 8 story claiming Iranian Ali Razeqi created a "time machine," but not before...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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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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The UK Metro has unpublished a Jan. 21 article containing a fake quote about the possibility of a Neanderthal clone... |
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Vanity Fair unpublished a blogpost critical of actress Jessica Chastain because "it ran counter to what a number of people at the magazine believed," Vanity Fair spokesperson Beth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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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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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The Daily Mail's website unpublished a story and photos about actress Evan Rachel Wood's ultrasound after Wood complained on Twitter.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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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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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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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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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 New York Post unpublished an Oct. 31 story reporting that "Mayor Bloomberg will announce later today that passenger cars will be temporarily barred from entering Manhattan," Poynter's Julie Moos... |
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CNN unpublished an article that "did not meet the editorial standards of CNN," Mediaite reported. The story has been replaced with a post disclosing the unpublishing that reads:
"Post... |
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The Toronto Star "edited" an editorial from August to remove a reference to "'Jewish only' roads and settlements in the West Bank." The editorial was by Canadians for Justice and Peace in... |
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The Wall Street Journal unpublished two articles by Jonah Lehrer that "inappropriately reused passages from articles he wrote for the Boston Globe," according to the Journal's corrections page. The... |
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Fake blogposts were published on Amnesty International's blog, Amnesty tweeted Aug. 27.
According to the Associated Press, the hackers posted at least one fake story that "claimed that a research mission... |
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As we wrote yesterday, Arizona newspaper the East Valley Tribune told readersthat it had unpublished "several articles" by an Arizona State University student intern who plagiarized. While the Tribune... |
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The East Valley Tribune announced that it unpublished "several articles" by an unnamed intern who plagiarized. According to the Tribune's note on the plagiarism, "the intern, a student at Arizona... |
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News outlets published a "test story" from the Associated Press by accident, and are now unpublishing the fake sports story. Deadspin explained the story was about a football game between UCLA's Bruins... |
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The Daily Mail unpublished a fake photo purporting to be of Isaac, Tabloid Watch reported. The photo, which Tabloid Watch dated back as early as 2008, was published with an August 24 article on the storm, which is... |
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University of Michigan student-run newspaper The Michigan Daily unpublished a story about Ontario Hockey League's Kitchener Rangers' "hockey recruit " after being threatened with a lawsuit, Jim Romenesko... |
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The Daily Mail unpublished without disclosure "an offensive paragraph" from a July 4 article on "youth unemployment," the Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported.
The article carries an... |
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Reuters' blogging website was hacked again and a fake death story was posted, Agence France-Presse reported.
The fake story claimed that "Saudi Arabia's foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal has... |
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Fake stories were posted to Reuters' blogs August 3 after the "blogging platform" was hacked, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Reuters tweeted about the hack noting that the fake interview "was... |
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National Public Radio unpublished and replaced an article that partially plagiarized with an editor's note, Poynter's Steve Myers... |
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The Wall Street Journal intern who was fired last month for fabrication also "snookered" The Huffington Post, the Atlantic Wire... |
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The New York Post's Page Six quoted from a parody Twitter account posing as New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane, Poynter's Julie Moos wrote.
The phony Twitter account, @timespublicedit, tweeted jokingly... |
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A CNN iReport post wrongly reported that musician Gotye died, blog Zap2it reported. The iReport, which has since been removed and replaced with a notice saying "Story Not Available: This Content is Currently... |
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A Canadian brewery wanted the Montreal Gazette to unpublish a photo of "suspected murderer Luka Magnotta posing with one of its flagship products," the Globe and Mail reported. As CBS News explained, Magnotta... |
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The UK Daily Record unpublished an article about a woman named Mary Reid after her lawyers filed an accuracy complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission.
The article's headline inaccurately indicated that she... |
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South African newspaper City Press, the "third best-selling newspaper in South Africa," "published a picture depicting President Jacob Zuma in a Leninist pose with exposed genitalia," the Guardian's... |
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National Review apologized, corrected and unpublished a story accusing Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of plagiarism, the Huffington Post reported.
National Review's original article,... |
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A fake story that circulated online May 8 claimed that Abraham Lincoln "patented the basic idea" for Facebook with a newspaper called The Springfield Gazette, Memeburn reported.
Nate St. Pierre started the... |
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show took a video segment embellishing claims about Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker off its website, the NJ Star-Ledger reported.
As the Star-Ledger explained, when Booker... |
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The Gloucestershire Echo unpublished an article and apologized to a man named Bob Sayers after the Echo published an article that suggested Sayers was interviewed by the Echo, the UK Press Complaints Commission reported.... |
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Just before April 1, the Bakersfield Californian issued a retraction for an "item in Friday's Outdoors column, by Steve Merlo." According to the retraction, the portion of the column "Foreign trout... |
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Last month, many news outlets removed stories reporting on the spring break trip that U.S. President Barack Obama's 13-year-old daughter Malia took, as we wrote. The outlets, including the Telegraph, the Huffington... |
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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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The UK Daily Mail unpublished a sensational article headlined "Is a Super-Volcano Just 390 Miles from London Ready to Blow?" UK blog Tabloid Watch reported Feb. 28.
The article, about Germany's Laacher See... |
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The Sunday Mercury took down a Dec. 4 article about the death of a man named Francis Haydock after his family complained that it was insensitive and misleading, the UK Press Complaints Commission... |
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The Sun and the Daily Mail each apparently unpublished articles claiming that a woman named Cassandra Smith was killed by her pet Alsatian dog when she was trying to defend her children, Tabloid Watch... |
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Ad Age claims the Daily Mail's Dec. 28 report about an Ad Age poll is wrong because Ad Age never created the poll at the center of the Daily Mail's report. According to Ad Age's Dec. 30 story "We... |
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ESPN's Eamonn Brennan reported Dec. 19 that he had cited quotes that turned out to be fake. Brennan also unpublished his original post with the fake quotes.
According to Brennan, in an earlier story from the... |
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Over the weekend, two high-profile Twitter accounts garnered a good bit of attention -- @RupertMurdoch and @Wendi_Deng.
However, only one of those is a real account -- Rupert Murdoch's. The News Corp CEO... |
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Media Bistro questioned People magazine's correction of its report claiming that a reality TV star left rehab.
According to Media Bistro, People broke the news, which was later re-reported by "everyone from... |
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The Lancashire Evening Post unpublished a comment claiming two firefighters had died, the newspaper noted in a Dec. 26 story about the fake report. The phony report was also spread on social media sites.
The... |
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The New York Times took down a Photoshopped photo of Kim Jong-Il's Dec. 28 funeral, the Times disclosed in a Dec. 28 blog post.
According to the Times, a photo comparison (above or here on the Times' website)... |
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Toronto Star public editor Kathy English published the results of her survey of readers on editorial decisions last week.
English asked readers to weigh in on some controversial editorial decisions the newspaper made in... |
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Washington, D.C. CBS-affiliate WUSA unpublished this week a story that reportedly plagiarized from the Washington Post, Poynter's Julie Moos reported.
According to Poynter, WUSA's president and general manager... |
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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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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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We consulted both scholars and studies for advice on what legality and best practices college newspapers can adopt to serve the public interest while still minimizing harm to students. Scholars like Toronto Star ... |
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The Guardian apologized to News International for its front-page report claiming the company had a Sun journalist "doorstep a barrister involved in the Leveson Inquiry," Press Gazette reported. According to the... |
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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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Reuters "withdrew" a story about Chechen author Polina Zherebtzova after Guardian reporter Miriam Elder questioned its originality, Ad Week reported. While both Reuters' Alissa de Carbonnel and the... |
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Media General-owned NBC-affiliate WJAR Channel 10 apologized for plagiarizing from the Providence Journal, Go Local Prov reported. Channel 10 is based in Rhode Island and the Providence Journal is a daily newspaper... |
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After being accused of plagiarism, the hyperlocal news site Examiner.com apologized for and unpublished the stories in question, Poynter's Jim Romenesko wrote Oct. 7.
The site's vice president of editorial,... |
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StinkyJournalism wrote earlier this week about accusations of plagiarism against architecture news site Arch Daily. An architecture news site and magazine, Architectural Record, claimed that Arch Daily lifted an... |
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As StinkyJournalism wrote briefly last week, an architecture news site, Architecture Record, accused fellow architecture news site Arch Daily of lifting content. The story in question has been removed from Arch... |
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A dramatic tale of a Jerusalem court ordering a dog stoned to death tricked the media in mid-June.
But the strangeness of the phony story went beyond the hoax. It turns out that the BBC published the hoax story... |
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CBS News unpublished all of its "web series" posts from "What's Trending" because "What's Trending" tweeted fake news that Steve Jobs died, Hollywood Reporter reported.
According to... |
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Add a fake dog stoning story to the (long) list of June's hoax stories that includes a Gay Girl in Damascus, the mass grave story, a French TV news station's fake interview with a Syrian ambassador, and a... |
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The ethics of news organizations publishing mug shots is an issue that StinkyJournalism has written about a few times before (see here and... |
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Thanks to the Internet, a simple Google search of a person’s name can now quickly turn up that police record you thought was dismissed...and your neighbors and employer knew nothing... |
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