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Freelance BBC reporter Adam Kirtley, in effect, promoted his wife's public relations clients when interviewing students at Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College, for which his wife's company does publicity, the... |
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An MSNBC graphic wrongly said George Wallace -- who was a segregationist governor of Alabama during portions of the 1960s through the 1980s, and a failed presidential candidate -- was a Republican, when he was a member of... |
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The UK Sun newspaper apologized to aliens for a story saying "Flying saucers [were seen] over British Scientology HQ." Yep, you read that right. The News Corp-owned newspaper said sorry to aliens.
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In a recent clarification, The Toronto Star fessed up to lifting a quote obtained by the Globe and Mail.
The June 4 "news clarification" admitted the newspaper published without credit a comment made by... |
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Rebekah Brooks pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges in the UK police's investigation into abuse by the media.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Brooks entered her pleas in today's "pre-trial... |
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The trial against Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army soldier who admitted earlier this year that he provided hundreds of thousands of leaked documents to WikiLeaks back in 2010, began Monday.
As iMediaEthics wrote in... |
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Parade magazine’s cover photo for the Sunday June 2, 2013 issue used a fake background without disclosing the fact to readers. A second fake photo was also used in the magazine’s cover story.
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National Journal's Ron Fournier called his saying President Barack Obama had started a "jihad against the press" an "inaccurate/irresponsible word choice," in a May 24 apology tweet.
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The San Francisco Chronicle is the latest news outlet to update its style entry on "illegal immigrant," Poynter reported.
Like the Associated Press, the Chronicle won't use the term "illegal... |
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After being hoaxed by a fake Sir Roger Moore interview published by the Daily Mail, Inquisitr senior editor James Johnson told iMediaEthics by email that Inquisitr has added the Daily Mail to its internal "Watch... |
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A few news sites were hoaxed by a fake Craigslist advertisement but soon made corrections after learning the ad wasn't legitimate.
The Craigslist ad showed a series of conversations between Sotheby's employees... |
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With 11 hours to go, Gawker has hit its $200,000 goal to raise money to buy a video that allegedly shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack. But is Gawker donating the $200K to charity if they don't come up with the... |
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The New York Times unpublished "a post and a slide show about Haitian child servants" because a Times photojournalist lied about the identity of his photo subjects and failed to disclose a conflict of interest,... |
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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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Twitter now has a two-step verification process as a way to "better protect your Twitter account," the company announced in a May 22 blogpost.
Users who opt into that extra verification step will first log in... |
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Hackers posted phony messages on the Financial Times' Twitter accounts and Tech Blog, Editors Weblog reported.
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack. As iMediaEthics has written, that... |
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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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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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Can't the New York Post play by the rules? Photo editors know they are supposed to disclose when an image is a "photo illustration" even if the image looks obviously Photoshopped to many.
Sunday, the NY... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Just days after the Associated Press issued new standards on the term "illegal immigrant," USA Today announced a change in its own practices in this regard, Jim Romenesko reported.
In a memo from USA... |
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North Carolina journalists and educators talked about "Ethics in the Media" at a Davidson College panel discussion, according to a news story from the college's website.
Even though the panel was held... |
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After complaints from an anthropologist, the Globe and Mail will now capitalize "First Nation" in stories and update its style book, according to Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead.
While Stead... |
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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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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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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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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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An on-air graphic from Lexington, Kentucky NBC-affiliate Lex18 reported: "5 arrested in math lab bust."
Wait, a MATH lab? Were the perpetrators misusing pi? Making illegal shortcuts on their long... |
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Fake "political, anti-Semitic and comical" tweets were posted by hackers on "several BBC Twitter accounts' last week, the Associated Press reported.
Hacking group the Syrian Electronic Army claimed... |
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the ongoing case against Private Bradley Manning, the military prosecutor, Capt. Angel Overgaard, revealed that if the New York Times had first received the restricted government documents leaked by Manning, instead of... |
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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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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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Norman P. Lewis, assistant professor in journalism for University of Florida, writes about a lesser-known form of plagiarism in his paper, “Idea Plagiarism: Journalism’s Ultimate Heist.”
Dr. Lewis... |
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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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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:
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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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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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Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead noted that the newspaper's website corrected "an online headline" for a Nov. 28 story about Israel and Palestine because its was inaccurate. But iMediaEthics found that... |
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After Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren's "rocky start" on social media, the New York Times "is assigning an editor on the foreign desk in New York to work closely with Ms. Rudoren on her social media... |
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The UK Press Complaints Commission ruled that it was OK for the Farnham Herald to use information and a photo from an assault victim's Facebook page in a story that identified the victim.
The newspaper defended its... |
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The Tabloid Watch blog highlighted an interesting UK Daily Mail correction this past week. In its corrections column, the Mail explained that it wrongly reported Nov. 27 that both of Parliament member Fiona Bruce's... |
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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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Here is the UK Leveson Inquiry Report.
We will be reporting more soon.
Meanwhile, here is the text from the report's cover:
AN INQUIRY INTO THE CULTURE, PRACTICES AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS
The Right... |
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The Associated Press removed "homophobia" and "ethnic cleansing" from its stylebook, Politico reported.
According to Politico, AP Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn explained, for example, why... |
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New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan blogged that the caption accompanying the Times' photo of Gaza school girls "could have been clearer and more informative" but wasn't "Orwellian," as... |
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Manipur journalists participated in a "one-day consultative workshop" titled "Media Ethics in the Reporting of Rape Cases," Hueiyen News Service reported. Manipur is a state in India.
At the Nov. 24... |
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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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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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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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The UK Sun apologized to an Italian man for saying he was the father of seven children, the UK Press Complaints Commission reported.
The Sun's apology was published Oct. 13, but the PCC published its report on the... |
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There's a new conduct code for Somaliland journalists, the Somaliland Sun reported.
The code advises against sensationalism, invasion of privacy, "hidden cameras," and bias. Further, the code calls... |
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Kazakhstan journalists have a new code of ethics, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty reported.
The code was launched by the government's Ministry of Culture and Information earlier this week as "an instrument of... |
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Five Zambian "media houses" said they will "sacrificially fund" Zambia's Media Council, the Zambian Daily Mail reported.
According to the Times of Zambia, the funding is for the council's... |
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The 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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Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead argued that "it's okay to pick a winner in a debate" for news coverage.
In her Oct. 18 blogpost, Stead addressed readers complaints about accusations of bias... |
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The Los Angeles Times corrected an Oct. 18 article that confused astronaut Neil Armstrong with cyclist Lance Armstrong.
The article's headline originally read "After Nike drops Neil Armstrong: Other athletes... |
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An anonymous commenter defended her comment about an Idaho Republican party official, the Associated Press reported. As iMediaEthics reported earlier this year, the... |
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch apologized Oct. 18 for a tweet about Hugh Grant. The apology tweet... |
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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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An Ecuadorean judge ruled that El Universo newspaper violated the privacy of children by "publishing photographs of underage children with President Rafael Correa," the Knight Center for Journalism in the... |
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Malawi Voice reporter Justice Mponda has been charged with "false publication and criminal libel" over an article claiming the country's president was resigning. The information came from a phony Facebook... |
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The Drudge Report linked to a fake Twitter account purporting to be Jake Gyllenhaal, Mediaite reported.
The post directed to the tweet "As a Democrat, I'll say it now, I endorse Mitt Romney For President of the... |
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"One of the problems we have with public policy polling is that a lot of people, probably anywhere from a third to a half, are unengaged on any given issue," iMediaEthics' in-house polling critic David Moore... |
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News International paid Richard Horton £42,500 in a settlement for his lawsuit over the Times of London's hacking his email to identify him as an anonymous police blogger, the Guardian reported.
Horton sued for... |
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Journalist James M Dorsey must identify his anonymous sources for his Sept. article "The World of Soccer: AFC reports to Malaysian Police about Stolen Payment Documents," after a recent Singapore court ruling,... |
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The Tunisian government may be charging "children's magazine" Qaws Quzah (Rainbow) over a recent article that detailed the "history of petrol bombs, including instructions and a diagram" that shows... |
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Thai TV news anchor Sorrayuth Suthasanachinda defended his ethics and two recent charges from the National Anti-Corruption Commission in a mid-September episode of his "news hour programme," an opinion report by... |
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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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The Toronto Star "edited" an editorial from August to remove a reference to "'Jewish only' roads and settlements in the West Bank." The editorial was by Canadians for Justice and Peace in... |
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In a post for the News Guild, Janelle Hartman recounted how Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert decided to hold off on taking pictures of a car on fire until he helped the driver first.
Herbert said of... |
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The 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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BBC hosts Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt apologized after what a BBC spokesperson described as a "not-for-broadcast audio containing an audible swearword" unintentionally aired, the Guardian... |
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iMediaEthics wrote last year when former New York governor Eliot Spitzer was sued over an Aug. 2010 article for Slate. The two people suing Spitzer, "former Marsh & McLennan Cos executive" William Gilman and... |
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Italian editor Alessandro Sallusti was sentenced to 14 months in jail for a 2007 article "Italy's highest" court found to be libelous, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported.
Sallusti edited the... |
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A fake story claiming "Ben Roethlisberger has broken both of his legs in a traffic altercation," circulated this week, Deadspin reported. Roesthlisberger is the Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback.
The... |
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Buffalo, New York NBC-affiliate WGRZ-2 wrongly used a photo of the singer Seal with its early September report on actor Michael Clarke Duncan's death, Deadspin reported.
The station apologized Sept. 3, calling the... |
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Facing a libel lawsuit, The Sunday Monitor apologized and retracted "defamatory statements connecting [Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni] to land grabbing," New Vision reported.
The Monitor is a... |
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Cameroon's National Communication Council advised journalists at a Sept. 11 "press briefing" to maintain journalism ethics, the Cameroon Tribune reported.
The council's president Mgr. Joseph Befe Ateba... |
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Society of Professional Journalists ethics chair Kevin Smith blogged Sept. 19 about applying the group's ethics code to social media.
"The Society of Professional Journalists relies on its current ethics code... |
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Reporters without Borders slammed a proposed Ukrainian criminal libel law, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty reported.
The advocacy group argued that criminal libel could "threaten the very existence of independent... |
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The Syrian Freedom Association claims French magazine Charlie Hebdo's publication of cartoons picturing Muhammad were "publicly provoking discrimination, hatred or violence of an ethnic, racial or religious... |
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NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos blogged Sept. 12 to remind NPR's reporters that it is inaccurate to refer to the "Democrat Party," after a listener complained.
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Estonian newspaper Eesti Ekspress apologized for a "fake ad" in its "humor section" that paired "a photo of prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp" with a weight loss slogan, JTA... |
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The New York Times announced Sept. 20 that it is banning allowing a "source or a press aide to review, approve or edit" quotes, the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan... |
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Haitian prime minister Laurent Lamothe and a Florida "businessman" claim the Haiti-Observateur's August and September articles were libelous as well as "outrageous, scandalous and reminiscent of a tabloid... |
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The 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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Science News will "plan to try to watch out" for any possible appearances of blurred lines between its advertising and news content "to avoid any appearance of a connection that does not exist." This vow... |
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A.S. Panneerselvan has been named the new readers' editor at The Hindu, according to a report in The Hindu.
According to The Hindu, it's "the only newspaper in India that has institutionalised the office of... |
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The New York Times corrected an article about USA Today's recent re-design to properly name "James Bond's boss."
The Sept. 13 correction (one of two on the article), reads:
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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 Associated Press explained why it included a reference to Bill Clinton's perjury charge related to Monica Lewinsky, the Huffington Post reported.
As the Huffington Post explained, "The AP's... |
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Bolovia's government claims that Bolivian news agency Fides News Agency's report, published by the agency and two newspapers, on the president's Aug. 15 speech led to "diffusion and incitement of racism or... |
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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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British police arrested former UK Times reporter Patrick Foster late last month "related to suspected offenses under the Computer Misuse Act and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice...related to the... |
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Zimbabwe is getting a "media commission to monitor media conduct and ethics," but a pre-existing media council slammed the plans as "undemocratic," Radio Voice of the People (VOP) reported.
According... |
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iMediaEthics previously highlighted a phony Twitter account purporting to be Angelina Jolie. As we wrote this summer, Balkan media outlets were hoaxed by the account and reported the fake Jolie tweets.
But, Cafe... |
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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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Bernard Arnault claims that French newspaper Liberation's headline calling him a "rich jerk" is "public insult," "vulgar and violent," the Guardian reported.
Arnault, whom the Guardian... |
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The government of Nigerian state Ogun's Information and Strategy commissioner Alhaji Yusuf Olaniyonu claims that an Aug. 9 Compass Newspaper's article was "false" and libelous, the Nigerian Observer News... |
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The New York Times' new public editor Margaret Sullivan explained in a Sept. 11 blog post why the Times opted for a "far more muted" coverage of the anniversary of Sept. 11 as opposed to last year's tenth... |
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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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Emilio Palacio, a reporter for Ecuador's El Universo newspaper, has obtained asylum from the U.S., the Guardian reported.
As we have written, Palicio and three others from the newspaper were sentenced to jail... |
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The Toronto Star corrected an August 31 report that claimed a man died from stab wounds, when he didn't.
The correction reads:
"An Aug. 31 article about the Centre for Addiction, Recovery and... |
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The FCC fined New York City Spanish radio station WSKQ $16,000 for a five-year-old "prank call" in which a staff member "called a woman pretending to be someone from of a local hospital, telling the... |
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The Orlando Sentinel published its positive reaction to a Mitt Romney speech before the event happened, Jim Romenesko reported.
According to Romenesko, the Sentinel's Mike Lafferty said "the text was... |
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Spanish magazine Magazine de Fuera de Serie Photoshopped Michelle Obama's face into "the iconic Portrait d'une négresse by French neoclassical painter Marie-Guillemine Benoist" for a cover photo,... |
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Was August 26 backwards day at the Wall Street Journal? Two corrections posted on the Journal's online corrections page that day suggest so!
The corrections report that the Journal's facts were backwards... |
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The Scottish Daily Mail corrected an April 5 article claiming that a blogger posted "the vilest -- usually sexual -- allegations" about politicians, the Press Complaints Commission reported.
The blogger, Mark... |
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The News Corp.-owned Sunday Times apologized for putting a "speech bubble" over a photo of a man holding the Olympic torch after the man, Wayne Jenkins, complained to the PCC that it was misleading.
The Times... |
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The UK Daily Star published a photo of Simon Cowell with a story on an actor's bid to have a "children's home near his mansion closed," Tabloid Watch spotted.
The photo was swapped out with an actual... |
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Yesterday, astronaut Neil Armstrong died. NBC News wrongly reported that singer Neil Young died, according to Mediaite, which said NBC News "quickly corrected."
The article in question now carries an... |
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The BBC's weatherman, Phillip Avery, apologized August 19 for predicting a "dry and hot day" when it ended up being a stormy one, the NY Daily News reported.
Avery apologized to "anyone who has had... |
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The Washington Post corrected a blogpost and a tweet that claimed a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama was Photoshopped.
As visual journalist Charles Apple pointed out, the Washington Post tweeted August 22... |
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch revealed in a memo that he is examining the company's "current internal controls" to "identify ways in which we can enhance them," Radio Australia reported.
Murdoch... |
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Arizona CBS-affiliate KOLD-TV 13 is paying a blogger $300 after "using his video without permission," Jim Romenesko reported August 14.
The blogger, Michael McKisson, told Romenesko that "the... |
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Politico's David Catanese apologized in a memo for his tweets on Todd Akin's rape comments, the Huffington Post reported.
As we wrote, Politico announced that Catanese wouldn't report on Akin because of his... |
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The government of Myanmar will not make Burmese journalists have their stories reviewed prior to publication, the Associated Press reported.
According to the AP:
"Officials from the government's press... |
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CNN said it was "a mistake" to show "a map of India's Punjab province" in a report on South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose parents are Punjabi, Politico reported.
"But it is unclear... |
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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 Washington Post will "review" Fareed Zakaria's columns for the newspaper in light of his apology for plagiarism, the New York Times reported.
As we wrote, Zakaria was suspended from Time and CNN after... |
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The Online Journalist Association is creating a "code of ethics for online journalists" this year, the Jakarta Post reported. The association is a group of "journalists from mainstream online media... |
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The Nelson Leader published a "clarification and apology" for a "reader's letter" containing errors about a woman's work "remuneration," which was described as "big bucks," the... |
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CNN added a correction to an August 8 opinion article on "white power music concerts" and their "music scene."
The article related the music to the recent shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, writing... |
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The Western Mail apologized for writing "LOL" in a caption about a man's death, the UK Press Gazette reported. The caption read:
"Mid Wales airport manager Bob Jones, 60, who was killed in... |
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The UK Telegraph apologized after erring in the nationality of an Olympics athlete, the Irish Independent reported.
The Telegraph had mis-identified Irish boxer Katie Taylor as British, according to the Guardian's... |
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Gannett-owned Milford-Miami Advertiser must pay $100,000 to police officer James Young over a 2010 article accusing him of having "sex with a woman while on the job in 1997," which Young denied, the Cincinnati... |
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Duluth Fox-affiliate Fox 21 KQDS's news director Jason Vincent apologized and resigned after one of his Facebook posts circulated, the Duluth News Tribune... |
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CNN apologized for playing the Billy Joel song "Only the Good Die young" after a July 6 report on the July 5 shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, Politico reported.
The apology read:
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Earlier this week, we highlighted two Myanmar weeklies that said the government "suspended...indefinitely" their publications.
But, both Voice Weekly and Envoy will be publishing again by August 18, Reuters... |
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An interesting discussion on the ethics of quoting and paraphrasing interviews is going on among journalists and linguists in the comments section of The University of Pennsylvania's Language Log's... |
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Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud claimed "state-owned media" reported "false news" about his client, the Muslim Brotherhood, Ahram reported.
In question is a story "quoting Muslim Brotherhood... |
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TIME magazine corrected a July 28 article after apparently lifting a quote and sentence from the New York Post's story reporting about a New York City grocery store's "man aisle." The TIME and Post... |
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ESPN wants "a judge to dismiss a part of Laurie Fine’s libel lawsuit" against the network because the network said it was "was accurate coverage of a legal document and court hearing," the Syracuse... |
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What brings a pop band, animals, and sexually-transmitted diseases together?
A recent correction from the UK Sun. The News Corp-owned newspaper corrected an April 21 story that "inaccurately suggested that... |
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The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead responded in a recent blog post to reader concerns that the Canadian newspaper isn't devoting enough Olympic coverage to Canadian athletes. "Several readers... |
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As we wrote earlier this week, Jonah Lehrer's book Imagine was revealed to include fake quotes attributed to Bob Dylan. Now, his book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "is running digital ads" recalling the... |
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The UK Sunday Express apologized for its June 2011 story claiming a UK school "taught extreme Islam," the Guardian reported.
The school, King Fahad Academy, sued the newspaper for libel and defended... |
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TMZ retracted a July story claiming singer Janet Jackson slapped her niece Paris Jackson, the daughter of Michael Jackson. and called her a "spoiled little bitch," Media Bistro's Fishbowl LA... |
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Iowa NBC-affiliate KWWL was subpoeaned for its "raw, unedited" footage of an interview with the mother of a missing child, Media Bistro's TV Spy reported.
The mother, Misty Cook Morrissey,... |
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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been charged with "conspiring to intercept the communications of at least 600 people between 2000 and 2006" including Brad Pitt, the Associated Press... |
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CNN apologized for playing Pink's song "Stupid Girls" "as an intro into a report about" Sarah Palin, The Hollywood Reporter wrote.
The Hollywood Reporter reported a CNN spokesperson said,... |
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Washington Post readers complained that the newspaper's publishing four front-page pictures of James Holmes gave "attention" or "potential for copycats," ombudsman Patrick Pexton wrote.
Pexton... |
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A UK judge has called for Associated Newspapers to "pay £15,000 in privacy damages" for running "unpixellated pictures of a child whose alleged father is a 'philandering' politician" in... |
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People paid singer Charlotte Church libel damages and her court fees for its 2011 fake story that she drunkenly proposed to her boyfriend at a karaoke bar, the UK Telegraph reported.
People is a weekly Mirror Group... |
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The Associated Press has new social media guidelines that permit breaking news on Twitter, Journalism.co.uk reported.
As Journalism.co.uk explained, staff should first "provide full details to the appropriate... |
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As we have written, the Spokane Spokesman-Review was recently ordered to identify an anonymous commenter to a local Idaho Republican Party chairwoman who claimed the commenter defamed her.
The commenter,... |
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Rupert Murdoch resigned this month from the boards of "the NI Group, Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corp Investments in the UK," the UK Telegraph reported.
News Corporation is quoted as saying that... |
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CBS News denies an Orlando Sentinel report that it sent flowers to George Zimmerman's family, Media Bistro's TV Newser reported.
The Orlando Sentinel's July 16 article reported outright that "CBS News... |
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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 Toronto Star's public editor Kathy English defended the newspaper's story on the five-year anniversary of Ed Mirvish's death.
Torontoist.com explained in a 2007 article on Mirvish's death that Mirvish... |
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NBC's Today show used footage of National Football League player Jerrod Johnson during its July 17 report on and interview with Michael Vick, Mediaite reported.
Website Guyism and then TV Newser wrote about the... |
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The London Evening Standard clarified an article after a restaurant complained that the article said it made customers pay for tap water, the Press Complaints Commission reported.
While in one case, a customer did have... |
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The Chicago Sun-Times turned off comments and added an editor's note to an article about the death of an Obama campaign staff member, Alex Okrent.
The editor's note reads:
"EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to... |
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Mitt Romney's campaign has criticized The Washington Post's reporting on the candidate twice this summer, as we've written.
And now, the campaign... |
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Utah Valley Magazine published an apology for a photo headline "Women of Color" that accompanied a photo of seven white women in brightly colored clothing, Jim Romenesko... |
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The Center for International Media Ethics' International Media Ethics Day is coming up!
CIME announced on its website the upcoming media ethics day, held on Sept.... |
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As we wrote last week, Seventeen's editor announced that the magazine doesn't photoshop bodies and will be transparent about changes to photos that appear in its editorial side of the magazine. Teenager Julia Bluhm... |
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KTLA's entertainment reporter, Sam Rubin, called out Gawker for a post about his Twitter account. Gawker had reported on Rubin's Twitter account tweeting the n-word to a rapper and later deleting the tweet and... |
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