by Sydney Smith on Feb 09, 2016
How The Guardian Labels Content Paid for by Advertisers or Companies
Last month, The Guardian changed how it labels content that is paid for by companies or advertisers, readers editor Chris...
Media Business Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2016
Nashville Story on Allegations of Extortion, Bribery & Blackmail Gets TV Station Sued
A Tennessee District Attorney General, Glenn Funk, is suing Nashville's NewsChannel 5 WTVF and its reporter Phil Williams for libel over a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 07, 2016
GQ UK must pay £10,000 for Contempt over Phone Hacking Story
GQ UK has to pay a £10,000 fine (about $15,000 U.S.) over a story the magazine published during the UK phone...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 05, 2016
Melissa Click Suspended from Univ. of Missouri, Must do Community Service after Protest Incident
Melissa Click, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri's Department of Communication, must complete 20 hours of community service...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 02, 2016
New Ombudsman for Canadian Broadcasting Corp’s French Services
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has named Guy Gendron its next ombudsman for French Services, CBC / Radio-Canada. CBC also has...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 28, 2016
Why was Israel replaced by Palestine in NPR Map? NPR Editor’s Note explains unpublishing
National Public Radio deleted a map illustration of the Middle East and North Africa that labeled Israel as Palestine and...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 27, 2016
Melissa Click Charged with 3rd Degree Assault over Mizzou Protest
Melissa Click, the assistant professor at the University of Missouri's communications department who called for "muscle" during a November student...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2016
Local UK paper IDs ‘Caped Crusader’ on ‘Circumstantial Evidence,’ a ‘Serious Failure’ of Accuracy, says IPSO, UK regulator
Who was that masked man? A local UK newspaper thought it knew, but unleashed the UK regulator when it identified...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 19, 2016
Plagiarism in 3 Washington Post articles, 8 Paragraphs didn’t credit Government Executive
Three Washington Post articles by staffer Lisa Rein plagiarized from government news website Government Executive, the Post's Erik Wemple reported. Government...