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#IceBucketChallenge: Fake News story says ALS Assoc. not using donations for research?

The ALS Association isn't ripping off its countless new donors, the association said this weekend in response to a fake…

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Architect Zaha Hadid accused of ‘no concern’ for dead laborers when construction never began, sues NY Review of Books

The New York Review of Books wrongly claimed architect Zaha Hadid had "no concern" for construction workers killed working on…

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Public Editor: New Yorker Mag said NYT Reporting on Plagiarism was ‘political attack’

Accusations of plagiarism against author Rick Perlstein were "a political attack ... dressed up as a journalistic ethics controversy," the…

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Sorry we said your son had ‘heroin Dependency,’ PCC complaint gets apology

Oops? The Middlesborough Evening Gazette wrongly reported a man who died in March was hooked on heroin.  The Gazette article…

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Fox News criticized for conflating Muslims, ISIS in James Foley report, AAJA wants apology

The Asian American Journalists Association called for Fox News to apologize after host Andrea Tantaros' comments about ISIS, Muslims and…

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Did Newspaper Fake Quote? Sexual Assault Victim Wrongly IDed

UK newspaper The Kentish Gazette provided enough information about a sexual assault victim that readers could identify her. The newspaper's…

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‘No content has been Deleted,’ Patch explains why stories have gone missing

Did hyperlocal news site Patch delete a mass amount of stories? That's how it appeared when David Rotenstein, a historian…

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ESPN: Michael Sam showering report didn’t ‘meet the standards we have set in reporting on LGBT-related topics’

ESPN apologized for its reporting on Michael Sam's showering habits as an NFL player. “ESPN regrets the manner in which…

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Sorry for telling you to ‘get sexual’ with your TAs, Canadian univ paper says

The Western Gazette, the student newspaper for the Univ. of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, apologized for an article telling…

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Fmr Times Journalist hacked Police officer’s e-mail but won’t be tried

Former Times of London journalist Patrick Foster, who hacked a police officer's e-mail account in order to identify him as…

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