Kansas City Star Apologizes for Rape Op-Ed that ‘Should Never Have Been Published’
The Kansas City Star deleted a column suggesting if women are raped while drunk, it's their own fault. Laura Herrick's controversial…
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John Gorman’s Dallas Shooting Tweets Get him Cut from Sports Illustrated’s The Cauldron
Sports Illustrated's sports site The Cauldron won't use freelancer John Gorman anymore after his tweets on the Dallas shooting. In them,…
Dallas Police Shootings: To Get Breaking News Right, NPR Corrects When Facts Are Wrong
News outlets that get it wrong often simply update stories without a correction. Breaking news stories are particularly fertile ground for…
Clinton-Trump Matchup: Conflicting Polls from USA Today and Reuters
On July 5, two different media organizations announced contradictory trends in the presidential election contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald…
Examiner.com Closing Next Week, 2 iMediaEthics Investigations Found Fact Check Fails
Online journalism platform Examiner.com is closing effective July 10th, San Francisco CBS-affiliate KPIX reported. The news was announced to Examiner.com…
Irish Newspaper Pays Bank of Ireland Employee, Apologizes for Suggesting he was Inside Man in Bank Heist
The Sunday World is paying a Bank of Ireland employee after suggesting he was involved as the inside man in a…
Examiner.com burned by reporter’s 3 wildfire fundraiser stories, YouCaring deletes $10K campaign
Multiple stories were unpublished from Examiner.com, following a three month long iMediaEthics investigation. This is the second time in 2016…
Mitchell Goldhar’s Defamation Lawsuit against Haaretz ‘Not a Case of Libel Tourism,’ Canadian Court Rules
A recent lawsuit ruling in Canada over a story about a soccer team in Israel raises the issue of libel tourism,…
Stephen Jennings Gets ‘Substantial’ Settlement over New Zealand Site’s Ethics Claims
New Zealand news publisher Fairfax Media apologized again and paid a "substantial" amount of money to New Zealand-born former billionaire…
What are the Top 2 Ethics Issues in UK Media? IMPRESS Releases Info from Public Consultations & Poll
Accuracy and privacy in the media are two top areas the UK public cares about, according to new survey of people…