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OfCom Rejects 17 Complaints over Fatima Manji Reporting on Nice Truck Attack

Seventeen people complained to UK broadcast regulator OfCom over Channel 4 having Fatima Manji, a Muslim reporter who wears a…

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Melania Trump to sue Daily Mail for Escort Story

Melania Trump, wife of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, is suing the Daily Mail for libel after the newspaper published…

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IMPRESS Releases Draft Ethics Code

IMPRESS, a new press regulator in the UK that strives to compete with the Independent Press Standards Organisation, has released…

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Scottish Politician Tommy Sheridan gets to Keep £200,000 News of the World Defamation Verdict

Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan gets to hold on to the  £200,000 defamation payout he was awarded from the now-closed UK newspaper News…

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Daily Record Apologizes after Women Complains she shouldn’t have been in John Tweedie Story

The Scottish Daily Record published a story in May about police detective John Tweedie, who was cleared of charges for "throwing his…

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More Olympics Errors: Tennis Records & Simone Biles versus Gabby Douglas

The Olympics are still ongoing, so there are still errors in the media. Below, the latest, including the record for…

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Gawker.com is Closing [Nick Denton Memo]

Gawker.com is closing. In an announcement on its website this afternoon, Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter reported that the site will…

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2 Readers Reps on Future of Online Commenting

Online commenting seems to constantly be a problem for news organizations, with NPR deciding to drop the feature on its…

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NPR Ending Online Commenting Next Week after 8 Years

National Public Radio is getting rid of online commenting. In an announcement today, NPR acknowledged "our success depends on our…

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Katinka Hosszu’s Libel Lawsuit against Swimming World for Performance Enhanced Drugs Question Dismissed

Katinka Hosszu may have won another Olympic medal but she lost her libel lawsuit against Swimming World magazine. The Hungarian…

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