by Sydney Smith on Dec 27, 2014
News of the World’s Jules Stenson Admits Phone Hacking
And yet another News of the World editor has fessed up to phone hacking. Jules Stenson pleaded guilty to conspiring...
Media Business Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Dec 28, 2014
Top 10 Wrong & Fake Photos of 2014
This year, we at iMediaEthics were pleased to see that news outlets didn't appear to publish nearly as many fake...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 29, 2014
8 Best New York Times Corrections in 2014
In compiling our year-end corrections round-up, we realized many of our favorites this year came from the newspaper of record....
by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2014
NC Newspaper explains why it used anonymous sources
The News & Record, a daily newspaper in Greensboro, N.C., decided to use anonymous sources to report on the firing...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2014
Patch Editor Can Protect Anonymous Source, Illinois Appellate Court rules
Patch.com editor Joseph Hosey will not have to identify his source used in reporting on a double murder last year...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 02, 2015
Toronto Star ran 172 fewer Corrections in 2014 than in 2013
The Toronto Star published 813 corrections in 2014 - a little more than 2 a day, according to the newspaper's...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 07, 2015
Globe & Mail: 40% Less Corrections in 2014, than 2013
The Globe and Mail published 450 corrections in 2014, public editor Sylvia Stead reported. Stead noted that while it's "certainly...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 07, 2015
Which News Outlets Will & Won’t Show Charlie Hebdo Cartoons? Part 2
More news outlets have announced they aren't going to show certain cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, whose...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 08, 2015
Banksy didn’t do Charlie Hebdo Pencil Cartoon, News Outlets Duped
A cartoon attributed to the elusive graffiti artist Banksy responding to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday went...