by Sydney Smith on Sep 18, 2018
Former mayor complains after news outlet says she was dead
A local UK news outlet, HemelToday.co.uk, claimed that Gillian Chapman, the former mayor of the Borough of Dacorum, had died...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 17, 2018
Australian Broadcaster Claimed Family Responsible for Deaths in Floods
Australian broadcaster Alan Jones and two Macquarie Media-owned radio stations, 2GB and 4BC, must pay nearly Australian $4 million (almost...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 16, 2018
NPR will ask Trump Administration Officials if They Signed Non-Disclosure Agreements
NPR staff will now ask interviewees who are or were affiliated with the Trump administration if they signed a non-disclosure...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 15, 2018
OK to Quote from Reader E-mail, Not Invasion, Media Council Says
It was OK to publish quotes from an e-mail from a reader to a journalist since the writer didn't indicate...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 14, 2018
Nikki Haley Curtain Article Gave ‘Unfair Impression,’ New York Times admits
The New York Times admitted its article about a $52,701 curtain purchase gave an "unfair impression" that Nikki Haley, the...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 14, 2018
NPR: Freelancer Recycled interviews in 157 Reports
NPR completed its review of Danielle Karson's freelance work for the organization. It found "at least 157 of those reports"...
by on Sep 13, 2018
DC Metro Theater Arts deletes review of ‘insensitive glorification of 19th-century Orientalism’
DC Metro Theater Arts, a performing arts website for Washington D.C., unpublished this summer a review of the play The Mikado after...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 12, 2018
Indigenous Report on Australia’s Channel Seven Broke Broadcast Rules
A program on Australia's Channel Seven suggested that a "'generation' of young Indigenous children [were] being abused." This disturbing pronouncement...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2018
Who will be next PBS public editor? Madhulika Sikka leaves for WashPost
The search for a new PBS ombudsman, or public editor, is on again. Madhulika Sikka, who had been in the role...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2018
Mail Online’s bogus Heimlich story finally gets correction
Earlier this year, the UK Mail Online claimed an Irish comedian performed the Heimlich maneuver on a fan who was...