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March 19, 2013 06:00 AM EST

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...

Wait, Wash Post Now Says 'Plus-Size' Swedish Mannequins NOT Hoax, Corrects Error

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Wait, Wash Post Now Says 'Plus-Size' Swedish Mannequins NOT Hoax, Corrects Error

March 19, 2013 05:00 AM EST

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...

Current Editor of UK Sunday People Newspaper Arrested in Phone Hacking Scandal

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Current Editor of UK Sunday People Newspaper Arrested in Phone Hacking Scandal

March 18, 2013 06:00 AM EST

NY Daily News vs. NY Post Fact Wars? Was teacher impregnated by 17- or 18-year-old student?

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NY Daily News vs. NY Post Fact Wars? Was teacher impregnated by 17- or 18-year-old student?

By: Sydney Smith, Rhonda Roland Shearer

March 13, 2013 05:00 PM EST

UK Police Arrest Tweeter After Naming Alleged Child Sex Assault Victim

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UK Police Arrest Tweeter After Naming Alleged Child Sex Assault Victim

March 12, 2013 06:00 AM EST

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...

Vanity Fair no longer 'surprised' Jessica Chastain 'hailed' for Zero Dark Thirty acting, unpublishes critique

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Vanity Fair no longer 'surprised' Jessica Chastain 'hailed' for Zero Dark Thirty acting, unpublishes critique

March 10, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Vanity Fair unpublished a blogpost critical of actress Jessica Chastain because "it ran counter to what a number of people at the magazine believed," Vanity Fair spokesperson Beth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. ...

3 Reasons Not to Trust the UK Daily Mail's Reporting on Severed Head Photo

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3 Reasons Not to Trust the UK Daily Mail's Reporting on Severed Head Photo

March 10, 2013 05:00 AM EST

Fox News 50-Word Rip-Off was 'Reporting Error,' Unpublishes Whole Story for Plagiarism

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Fox News 50-Word Rip-Off was 'Reporting Error,' Unpublishes Whole Story for Plagiarism

March 06, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Super Hero Firefighter? NBC News Caption Said 'Fireman Holds Up a Fire Truck' in Sinkhole

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Super Hero Firefighter? NBC News Caption Said 'Fireman Holds Up a Fire Truck' in Sinkhole

By: Sydney Smith, Rhonda Roland Shearer

March 05, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Did a firefighter act like a super hero and lift a fire truck with one hand? Apparently, a caption writer for NBC News thinks...

Should Bolivian Journalists Use A Dead 14-Year-Old's Facebook Photo?

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Should Bolivian Journalists Use A Dead 14-Year-Old's Facebook Photo?

March 05, 2013 05:00 AM EST

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...

More Deception? Another Jonah Lehrer Book Pulped By Publisher

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More Deception? Another Jonah Lehrer Book Pulped By Publisher

March 04, 2013 02:25 PM EST

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...

Was BusinessWeek Cover Racist? Editor-in-Chief Says 'We'd do it differently ' if given second chance

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Was BusinessWeek Cover Racist? Editor-in-Chief Says 'We'd do it differently ' if given second chance

March 04, 2013 11:15 AM EST

Anonymous sources cited for Clive Davis 'fact checking' of Kelly Clarkson? Really?

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Anonymous sources cited for Clive Davis 'fact checking' of Kelly Clarkson? Really?

March 02, 2013 06:00 AM EST

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...

Why Transcripts Might Not Match NPR Programs, Ombudsman Explains

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Why Transcripts Might Not Match NPR Programs, Ombudsman Explains

March 02, 2013 05:00 AM EST

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...

Ombudsman-Lite? WashPost to Replace Ombudsman with Readers Rep

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Ombudsman-Lite? WashPost to Replace Ombudsman with Readers Rep

March 01, 2013 04:50 PM EST

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...

Why Newspaper Published Fake Interview with Politician, Called it 'A Little Piece of Satire'

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Why Newspaper Published Fake Interview with Politician, Called it 'A Little Piece of Satire'

March 01, 2013 07:00 AM EST

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...

NBC: We 'Fairly and accurately reported' on George Zimmerman's 911 Trayvon Martin Call

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NBC: We 'Fairly and accurately reported' on George Zimmerman's 911 Trayvon Martin Call

March 01, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Bradley Manning Takes 'Full Responsibiity,' Pleads Guilty to 10 Criminal Counts

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Bradley Manning Takes 'Full Responsibiity,' Pleads Guilty to 10 Criminal Counts

February 28, 2013 06:00 PM EST

NYT David Brooks on his Sequestration Column: 'I probably went a bit too far'

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NYT David Brooks on his Sequestration Column: 'I probably went a bit too far'

February 26, 2013 06:00 AM EST

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...

Sorry for Oscars C-Word Tweet about Quvenzhane Wallis, The Onion's CEO Says

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Sorry for Oscars C-Word Tweet about Quvenzhane Wallis, The Onion's CEO Says