by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2020
Kentucky editor fired for outing coworker’s source?
WAVE-3 , a Louisville, Kentucky NBC-affiliate, fired assignment editor Aaron Ellis after he apparently outed another reporter's source. According to...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2020
Calgary Herald sent ‘strong message’ with apology over drunk Tonto cartoon
The Calgary Herald appropriately responded to criticism of an "inappropriate" cartoon showing the Lone Ranger character Tonto apparently drunk at...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2020
CBC: OK to ‘interpret’ Don Cherry comments
Hockey analyst Don Cherry was fired from Sportsnet last year over his comments about immigrants, but the network just now...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 14, 2020
Tavis Smiley must pay $1.5 million to PBS, jury found he broke morals clause
Talk show host Tavis Smiley broke Public Broadcasting Service's morals clause and now must pay $1.5 million to the network,...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 14, 2020
Coronavirus errors: More news media corrections include how to disinfect
NPR's March 13 correction: "In an update of this post on March 12, the total number of world cases was...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 14, 2020
BBC: OK to call Brexit rally ‘very white’
It was OK for BBC host Geeta Guru-Murthy to call a Brexit rally "very white," the BBC itself concluded last...
by David W. Moore on Mar 19, 2020
Did Nate Silver Help Elect Trump? Maybe…
A recent article in the Washington Post suggested that President Donald Trump’s election may have been helped by probability forecasts...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 23, 2020
Corrections: North Dakota vs South Dakota, Picasso & Steve Wynn,
1. Balkan versus Baltics: A March 17 New York Times correction mixed up where Albania is. The correction reads: "An article on...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 24, 2020
Was a UK man really killed by Yorkshire pudding?
The UK Daily Star reported that a man was killed by a Yorkshire pudding after choking. But the man's daughter...