by Sydney Smith on Mar 03, 2014
‘Mass panic’ in the Philippines from Fake News Report
Philippines national news station ABS-CBN apologized after its false report "caused a mass panic." ABS-CBN had reported Feb. 24 on...
Sci/Tech/Health Journalism Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Feb 26, 2014
Why Mark Zuckerberg Octopus Cartoon Evokes ‘Nazi Propaganda,’ German Paper Apologizes
German cartoonist Burkhard Mohr apologized after his cartoon of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was accused of anti-Semitism and invoking "Nazi propaganda."...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 06, 2014
‘Mental Illness’ Story Gone Wrong at The Michigan Daily, Newspaper apologizes, retracts
The Michigan Daily issued one heck of a retraction and apology for an article about mental illness. The article included...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 04, 2014
Hoax: North Korea didn’t send 17-year-old astronaut to the Sun
No, North Korea didn't land a teenaged astronaut on the sun in the dark of night. Irish satire site Waterford...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 03, 2014
3 Errors in Google Android Stories Guardian Shouldn’t Have Published
The Guardian prematurely published an article on Google Android software, according to a correction published in its Jan. 30 Corrections...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 29, 2014
Clueless ‘skinny white woman’ writes about ‘heavy set’ black woman in yoga, Goes viral
What if a clueless "skinny white woman" has fantasies about what a "heavy set" black woman in her yoga class...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2014
Guardian may re-publish Emma Keller Post on Lisa Adams, ‘I continue to regret not giving her notice,’ Keller says
Emma Keller should have told Lisa Adams, who has stage-4 breast cancer, that she was writing about her, Guardian readers...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 14, 2014
No Apologies, NYT ‘Readers misread my point,’ says Bill Keller RE His Adams Cancer Column
Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller claimed readers who criticized his opinion article for the Times about Lisa...
by Andrew E. Smith , David W. Moore on Jan 13, 2014
GfK Web-Based Polls: Why Do AP, Pew, CBS, and Other Media Trust Them? A Recent GfK Poll Raises Doubts
STORY HIGHLIGHTS : In November, iMediaEthics tested Pew's October poll results on trans fat: Pew's phone poll (conducted by PSRAI)...