by Sydney Smith on Apr 28, 2010
New York Times caught reporting third hoax story in April?
For the third time this month, The New York Times’ City Room blog may have been caught reporting a hoax...
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by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2010
More bloggers call themselves journalists. Does it matter?
A new study published by PRWeek and PR Newswire indicates that 52% of bloggers consider themselves journalists. This is a...
by George F. Bishop , David W. Moore on Apr 05, 2010
We are Poll Skeptics, Not Poll Cynics
Each of us has been involved in the polling enterprise for over thirty-five years, so this skepticism about media polling...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 04, 2010
New York Times Hoaxed, Ran April Fools’ Prank about White House blogger
The New York Times got “punked” this April Fools' Day by a New York personal injury attorney. The newspaper, it...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2010
Should Newspapers Delete Published Police Records? Editors explain policies
Thanks to the Internet, a simple Google search of a person’s name can now quickly turn up that police record you...
by Molika Ashford on Mar 08, 2010
CJR Study : Magazines’ Web Content Copy editing is done ‘Less Rigorously’
This week, the Columbia Journalism Review published the results of their survey of editorial practices at magazine Web sites (Web...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 01, 2010
Canadian Journalists Told Stop Hugging Olympic Athletes
Murray Brewster in The Canadian Press reports that a "sobering" email went out last week "to television reporters and personalities with...
by Molika Ashford on Feb 17, 2010
Luge Video Controversy Mirrors Haiti Quake Images
In the wake of January’s tragic earthquake in Haiti, iMediaEthics covered the debate over the media’s use of graphic images from...
by Molika Ashford on Feb 07, 2010
NY Times reports : Farming-out media content produces major risks
iMediaEthics recently wrote about ethical issues in the partnership between the Washington Post and upstart financial news service, the Fiscal Times....
by Molika Ashford on Jan 26, 2010
Study Finds Mainstream Media, Not New Media, Write Most “New” Stories in Baltimore
A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that 95% of original stories (those with new information)...