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Daily Star Published Photo of Person who wasn’t missing in Ariana Grande Manchester Bombing

In the panic after the Manchester bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert earlier this year, which killed 22 and…

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Corrections: Sorry we said you were transgender, Which Thomas Frank & Where’s Kosovo?

iMediaEthics rounds up interesting and newsworthy corrections every few weeks. Check out our latest collection! 1. The New York Times…

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‘World leaders were duped over global warming?’ IPSO rules against Mail on Sunday’s climate change story

The UK Mail on Sunday claimed "world leaders were duped over global warming" and had been "convinced" to invest to…

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PBS names Madhulika Sikka its next public editor, ombudsman

Madhulika Sikka will be PBS's next ombudsman, iMediaEthics has learned from PBS. Sikka is a former executive editor of National…

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NYTimes Errs in Book Review on Campus Rape, ‘Blurred Lines’

If reviewers are going to call out authors for factual errors, they better be sure they have their own facts…

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Village Voice Reviewing Kevin Deutsch’s Freelance Article on Filipino Drug War

iMediaEthics has been closely covering Kevin Deutsch, the former Newsday and New York Daily News staffer who has more than…

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Freelancer Dave Lozo loses gig after calling ESPN public editor ‘dumbest person’

This past week has seen a Twitter controversy within a larger, political controversy. It started with ESPN commentator Jemele Hill's…

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Scottish Newspapers Made it Possible to ID Sex Crime Victim

The Daily Record and the Paisley Daily Express, based in Glasgow, Scotland, made it possible for a sex crime victim…

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Toronto Star Undercover Reporting at Fiera Foods Plant was in Public Interest, Public Editor Says

It was in the public interest and "most certainly justified" for the Toronto Star to go undercover at Toronto industrial…

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WSJ, Getty unpublish fake photographs from phony conflict photographer

A fake conflict photographer using the name Eduardo Martins sold stolen photos to news outlets like Getty Images that ended…

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