by Sydney Smith on Dec 12, 2010
Irish Newspaper Republishes Defamatory Comments
The Star Sunday newspaper was found guilty of contempt and defamation after it "deliberately repeated false and defamatory statements," the...
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by Sydney Smith on Dec 13, 2010
WikiLeaks, Media Ethics Discussions Going Hand in Hand?
WikiLeaks has dominated news stories the past two weeks as constant feeds of news updates are published. iMediaEthics searched on Google...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 15, 2010
SPJ Member on Giving a Hat Tip
Media critic Jason Salzman wrote on Big Media, "home of the Rocky Mountain Media Watch Archive," about crediting bloggers and traditional media...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 16, 2010
500 Reader Complaints Over Richard Littlejohn’s Daily Mail Jody McIntyre Column
A Daily Mail column has provoked serious reader disapproval, The Guardian reported. As of Dec. 14, more than 500 complaints were reportedly...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 17, 2010
UK Press Complaints Commission to Approve Where Corrections are Placed
Effective Jan. 1, UK newspapers must pre-determine with the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) "the prominence of corrections stemming from a complaint,"...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 17, 2010
Is Chicago Trib’s MugShots Publishing More Ethical than St. Petersburg Times?
The ethics of news organizations publishing mugshots is an issue that iMediaEthics has written about a few times before (see here...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 18, 2010
‘Using Tweets to Interview’ : Are 140 Character Twinterviews the Future of Journalism?
Media Bistro's Fishbowl DC wondered if "Twinterviews" is the "new journalism" ? Twinterviews says it is a combination of Twitter +...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 18, 2010
TIME Person of the Year: TIME Readers Pick Julian Assange, TIME Vetoes and Picks Mark Zuckerberg
Even though readers selected Julian Assange as TIME magazine's Person of the Year, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, "who finished 10th...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 19, 2010
WSJ Corrects Trend Story: Fewer 4BR+ Manhattan Apartments, NOT More
Sandy Mattingly blogged Dec. 14, criticizing the Wall Street Journal for its recent trend story about "large Manhattan families snubbing...