by Sydney Smith on Aug 31, 2014
#IceBucketChallenge: Fake News story says ALS Assoc. not using donations for research?
The ALS Association isn't ripping off its countless new donors, the association said this weekend in response to a news...
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by Sydney Smith on Aug 30, 2014
Architect Zaha Hadid accused of ‘no concern’ for dead laborers when construction never began, sues NY Review of Books
The New York Review of Books wrongly claimed architect Zaha Hadid had "no concern" for construction workers killed working on...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 29, 2014
Public Editor: New Yorker Mag said NYT Reporting on Plagiarism was ‘political attack’
Accusations of plagiarism against author Rick Perlstein were "a political attack ... dressed up as a journalistic ethics controversy," the...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 28, 2014
Sorry we said your son had ‘heroin Dependency,’ PCC complaint gets apology
Oops? The Middlesborough Evening Gazette wrongly reported a man who died in March was hooked on heroin. The Gazette article...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 28, 2014
Fox News criticized for conflating Muslims, ISIS in James Foley report, AAJA wants apology
The Asian American Journalists Association called for Fox News to apologize after host Andrea Tantaros' comments about ISIS, Muslims and...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 27, 2014
‘No content has been Deleted,’ Patch explains why stories have gone missing
Did hyperlocal news site Patch delete a mass amount of stories? That's how it appeared when David Rotenstein, a historian...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 27, 2014
Sorry for telling you to ‘get sexual’ with your TAs, Canadian univ paper says
The Western Gazette, the student newspaper for the Univ. of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, apologized for an article telling...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2014
Fmr Times Journalist hacked Police officer’s e-mail but won’t be tried
Former Times of London journalist Patrick Foster, who hacked a police officer's e-mail account in order to identify him as...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2014
Philadelphia paper fires editor after Asian slur ‘Me Too, Chinky Winky, Dinky Doo’
The Philadelphia Public Record published Asian racial slurs in its Aug. 21 issue, Philadelphia Magazine reported. In a caption for...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2014
Calling Michael Brown ‘No Angel’ a ‘Blunder,’ NYTimes public editor says
It was "regrettable" that the New York Times called Michael Brown, the 18-year-old killed by a police officer in Ferguson,...