by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2014
BuzzFeed’s 29 Embarrassing culture errors, One wrong
BuzzFeed recently posted an article entitled "29 Embarrassing Things You Should Absolutely Avoid While Traveling Abroad." Unfortunately, BuzzFeed got one...
International Media Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2014
S African TV News Fallout, Broadcast Pistorius trial witness photo
Last week, South African TV news station eNCA apologized after showing a photo of a witness in the Oscar Pistorius...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2014
NYT No longer predicts Fmr Ukraine prez will be executed after Kiev trial, Corrects
The New York Times "referred imprecisely to [the] possible fate" of Viktor F. Yanukovych in a Feb. 25 article about...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 07, 2014
Informed Consent: Are Journalists Informing Sources About Possible Interview Fall Out?
Should journalists do more to inform sources of potential fallout from being interviewed? What are the real-world consequences for media...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 06, 2014
Reeva Steenkamp’s family needed money, NBC News Pays them
NBC News is paying Reeva Steenkamp's family "a very modest licensing fee," the Washington Post's Paul Farhi reported. Steenkamp was...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 02, 2014
Were Paparazzi photos of Irish RTE TV anchor taken from ‘in the bushes’?
Irish Daily Mirror editor John Keirans admitted that it was a "mistake" to publish undercover photos of RTE news anchor...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 01, 2014
Maltese journalists to get new ethics code
The Institute of Maltese Journalists is planning to set up a new code of ethics this year, Malta Today reported....
by Sydney Smith on Feb 28, 2014
Seriously? 8 Rape Victims IDed, Error called a ‘Boo-Boo’
The Swaziland Observer identified eight alleged rape victims in a Feb. 18 front page story, Richard Rooney reported on the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 25, 2014
Man on Fire in Ukraine Front page photo criticized in Globe & Mail
On Feb. 19, The Globe and Mail published a graphic front-page photograph of a man on fire in Ukraine. The image shows...