by Sydney Smith on Sep 09, 2011
Business Insider Will Give Anyone Anonymity?
Does Business Insider have one of the most lax anonymous source policies? The business news blog's CEO, Henry Blodget, revealed...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 08, 2011
Yahoo News Unpublishes Post Accused of Racism?
Yahoo News has unpublished an aggregated story and image that led to charges of racism, according to the author of the original...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 06, 2011
2 UK News Sites Hacked on ‘World Hackers’ Day?’
UK news sites the Telegraph and the Register were hacked and had their traffic re-routed to another non-related site, Journalism.co.uk...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
NYT Business Editor Ingrassia Rejects Ombudsman’s Criticism of Dealbook
In his Aug. 27 column, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane criticized NYT's "financial news service" section, DealBook, and suggested the site...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
Does Al Sharpton Know Endorsement Guidelines for MSNBC?
Al Sharpton, who was recently hired as an MSNBC host, reportedly told the Wall Street Journal he thought he could...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 03, 2011
Le Monde: French Govt. Searched Reporter’s Phone Records to Find out Anonymous Source’s identity
French newspaper Le Monde has alleged that French president Nicolas Sarkozy's secret services "spied on one of its journalists to...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 01, 2011
Chicago CBS-Affiliate Denies Racism Charges, Apologizes again for Out-of-Context Quote
As iMediaEthics previously wrote, the Chicago CBS-affiliate WBBM apologized after taking a four-year-old boy's comments on guns out of context. In...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 31, 2011
News International Reviewing Standards
News International, which is the parent company for News Corp's UK news outlets, told Yahoo News it is reviewing its...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 27, 2011
Ghana Media Influenced by Politicians?
Cornelius Pratt argued that there is "a distinction between journalism as a duty and journalism as a mission," Ghana Broadcasting...