by Sydney Smith on May 26, 2012
Burmese Mag Doesn’t have to Name Author of Article Accused of Libel
Burmese weekly magazine The Voice doesn't have to name a reporter behind a March story being sued for libel, the...
International Media Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on May 25, 2012
Daily Record Apologized but Broke PCC Code with Graphic Photo of Man Killed in Car Accident
The Daily Record violated the Press Complaints Commission's code of conduct in publishing a graphic photo of a man killed...
by Sydney Smith on May 24, 2012
Chinese TV Host’s Social Media Posts Call for Gov to ‘clean out the foreign trash’
Chinese TV host Yang Rui claims ChinaGeeks.org editor Charlie Custer "damaged his reputation" by claiming Yang was xenophobic for a...
by Sydney Smith on May 23, 2012
Anchor Weekly Kicked out of Newspapers Association for a year over Plagiarism
The Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association suspended the Anchor Weekly for a year, according to an Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association press...
by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2012
UK News Outlets Correct, Apologize, Pay for Wrong Al Qaeda Claims
Several UK news outlets apologized and corrected stories about an Algerian man named Farid Boukemiche, Tabloid Watch reported. The news outlets...
by Sydney Smith on May 20, 2012
More Libel Claims against RTE for Mission to Prey Program
Kenyan bishop Philip Sulumeti is suing Irish public broadcaster RTE for its claims in the 2011 Prime Time Investigates "Mission...
by Sydney Smith on May 19, 2012
Australia’s The Age Defends 2010 Report on Political Database of Personal Info
The Age's editor-in-chief, Paul Ramadge, defended the newspaper's access of the "ALP electoral database in the lead-up to the 2010...
by Sydney Smith on May 18, 2012
New Press Council in Burma to replace Censorship Board?
Myanmar will get a press council next month, Burmese "independent news media group" Irrawaddy reported. According to Burmese news site...
by Sydney Smith on May 17, 2012
Mexican News outlets Took $ from Politician for ‘Sponsorship’
Mexican news outlets reportedly took money from Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto for "mentions," the Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported....