by Sydney Smith on Sep 21, 2017
PBS names Madhulika Sikka its next public editor, ombudsman
Madhulika Sikka will be PBS's next ombudsman, iMediaEthics has learned from PBS. Sikka is a former executive editor of National...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 21, 2017
NYTimes Errs in Book Review on Campus Rape, ‘Blurred Lines’
If reviewers are going to call out authors for factual errors, they better be sure they have their own facts...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 20, 2017
Village Voice Reviewing Kevin Deutsch’s Freelance Article on Filipino Drug War
iMediaEthics has been closely covering Kevin Deutsch, the former Newsday and New York Daily News staffer who has more than...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 20, 2017
Freelancer Dave Lozo loses gig after calling ESPN public editor ‘dumbest person’
This past week has seen a Twitter controversy within a larger, political controversy. It started with ESPN commentator Jemele Hill's...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 19, 2017
Scottish Newspapers Made it Possible to ID Sex Crime Victim
The Daily Record and the Paisley Daily Express, based in Glasgow, Scotland, made it possible for a sex crime victim...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 19, 2017
Toronto Star Undercover Reporting at Fiera Foods Plant was in Public Interest, Public Editor Says
It was in the public interest and "most certainly justified" for the Toronto Star to go undercover at Toronto industrial...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 18, 2017
WSJ, Getty unpublish fake photographs from phony conflict photographer
A fake conflict photographer using the name Eduardo Martins sold stolen photos to news outlets like Getty Images that ended...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 18, 2017
ESPN public editor responds to Jemele Hill tweets, ESPN says ‘not a political organization’
ESPN public editor Jim Brady weighed in on the Jemele Hill tweets calling Donald Trump a white supremacist that stirred...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 17, 2017
Carter Page, former Trump adviser, suing over Huffington Post, Yahoo News articles
Carter Page, a former adviser to then presidential candidate Donald Trump, is suing Oath, the parent company of Yahoo News...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 17, 2017
New York Post unpublishes, corrects Kid Rock, Sharpton stories
The New York Post unpublished two stories about Kid Rock and Al Sharpton after finally admitting it had been duped...