American Journalism Review Advises on Aggregation
American Journalism Review's Michaelle Bond collected the "best practices" for "aggregating without aggravating." Referencing Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco's complaints over Huffington…
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Phony Travel Reviews to be Reviewed
iMediaEthics wrote earlier this year when TripAdvisor was accused of hosting 27,000 defamatory reviews. Now, Forbes is reporting that the UK…
Le Monde: French Govt. Searched Reporter’s Phone Records to Find out Anonymous Source’s identity
French newspaper Le Monde has alleged that French president Nicolas Sarkozy's secret services "spied on one of its journalists to…
The Australian Apologizes, Retracts after ‘Erroneous’ Report on PM Julia Gillard
Rupert Murdoch-owned The Australian retracted, corrected, and apologized for publishing fake claims about Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, the Guardian…
WikiLeaks Accuses Guardian of Breaking Agreement, Providing Password to Now Leaked CableGate Docs, Guardian Denies
WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of 250,000 + leaked U.S. diplomatic cables last November. Initially, the leak-publishing website linked…
WikiLeaks Publishes all Diplomatic Cables, Unredacted
In light of the leak of a full unredacted copy of the diplomatic cables that make up what WIkiLeaks calls…
Chicago CBS-Affiliate Denies Racism Charges, Apologizes again for Out-of-Context Quote
As iMediaEthics previously wrote, the Chicago CBS-affiliate WBBM apologized after taking a four-year-old boy's comments on guns out of context. In…
Protesters accuse Thailand Reporter Somjit Nawakruasunthorn of Breaking Ethics Standards
Ten "red-shirt supporters" protested a Thailand reporter Somjit Nawakruasunthorn who interviewed the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, the Bangkok Post reported.…
Daily Express Incorrectly Reports Net Migration Statistic as Immigration
The blog Tabloid Watch called out the UK Daily Express for incorrectly reporting statistics in an Aug 26 cover story.…
Court Orders Canadian Blogger’s Identity to be Outed
An anonymous blogger who posted comments accused of defamation will be revealed, according to Law Times News. The blogger, who…