by Sydney Smith on Mar 13, 2012
Rebekah Brooks Arrested Again in Phone Hacking Investigation
Six people, including former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks, were arrested March 13 for questioning...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 12, 2012
AWARDS: 1st Data Journalism Awards this Year, Awards will Promote & Set Best Practices, Standards
The European Journalism Centre,an "independent, international, non-profit institute dedicated to the highest standards in journalism," is accepting entries for the...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 12, 2012
Irish Broadcasting Authority: RTE Unfair in Airing Unverified Tweet During Debate, RTE Apologizes
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld former Irish presidential candidate Sean Gallagher's complaint over RTE's airing the contents of a...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2012
Phone Hacking Scandal: Complaint over Leveson Testimony, Reported Suicide Attempts by Sun Journos, Claims NOTW Hacked Priest
Could Leveson Testimony Conflict with Prosecutions? As we wrote earlier this month, UK police official Sue Akers told the Leveson...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2012
New Corrections & Complaints Process Proposed for the BBC
The BBC proposed a "'faster, simpler and easier to understand' complaints process" in a March 8 press release. Some of...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 10, 2012
Filipino Media Criticized for Coverage of Tropical Storm
PJR Reports criticized some of the Filipino media's coverage of tropical storm Sendong, which hit the Philippines in December of...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2012
Bulgarian Media Council on Nikolay Barekov Tearing up Newspaper
Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media ruled that it was OK for TV7's host Nikolay Barekov to rip up a newspaper...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS: AEJMC Calls for Media Ethics Papers
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication announced a call for papers about media ethics in a recent...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2012
Mirror Group Newspapers to Pay £75,000 for Libelous Claim man is Sex Offender
Mirror Group Newspapers must pay a man " £75,000 in damages" for The People's libelous claims in a September 2010...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2012
Australian Govt. Inquiry into Press Calls for Govt Funded, Independent Regulator
The Australian government published an "independent report" analyzing media regulation called for a new "News Media Council" with regulatory powers...