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ESPN Defends Bernie Fine Reporting as ‘Accurate Coverage of a Legal Document’

ESPN wants "a judge to dismiss a part of Laurie Fine’s libel lawsuit" against the network because the network said…

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Complaints about Egyptian Media Coverage of Muslim Brotherhood

 Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud claimed "state-owned media" reported "false news" about his client, the Muslim Brotherhood, Ahram reported. In question is a…

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Myanmar Media Outlets Censored, Publications Suspended this Summer

Even though the Myanmar government announced last year it was ending prior censorship at 178 of its 358 media outlets…

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TIME Corrects Story to add Attribution after Complaint

TIME magazine corrected a July 28 article after apparently lifting a quote and sentence from the New York Post's story…

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The Sun Corrects Animals, STDs & Boy Band One Direction Story after PCC Complaint

What brings a pop band, animals, and sexually-transmitted diseases together? A recent correction from the UK Sun.  The News Corp-owned…

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Canadian Mayor Claims Website Ran Libel and Errors, Doesn’t Take Press Council Up on Offer to Mediate

After being criticized by the local mayor, The Rossland Telegraph wrote that it follows the British Columbia's Press Council's Code…

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Reuters Blog Unpublishes Fake Stories about Syria Posted by Hackers

Fake stories were posted to Reuters' blogs August 3 after the "blogging platform" was hacked, the Wall Street Journal reported.…

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Wash Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler: ‘I Prefer to Stick with non-WaPo Content’

We heard back from Glenn Kessler, the columnist for the Washington Post's Fact Checker. Kessler was recently awash in controversy.…

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Irish Examiner says ‘NO’ to Fark Racial Stereotype

Commentary Hilary Hanson's lede in The Huffington Post August 1 article "Body Painting World Record Attempt Leads to Thong Shortage…

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Globe and Mail Public Editor on Complaints: Not enough Canadians in Olympic Coverage?

The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead responded in a recent blog post to reader concerns that the Canadian…

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