Ghana Media Influenced by Politicians?
Cornelius Pratt argued that there is "a distinction between journalism as a duty and journalism as a mission," Ghana Broadcasting…
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Sweet & Maxwell Research: More Libel Lawsuits against Bloggers, Social Media Users This Year
Legal information group Sweet & Maxwell produced research indicating that libel lawsuits originating from social networking and blog sites have…
Four Australian Journalists Lose Jobs after Misleading Viewers
Four journalists for Australian news station Channel 9 have lost their jobs after it was revealed the station's reporters weren't…
CNN’s iReport Advises on Fact Checking, Sourcing
A recent report from CNN's "eight-week series about storytelling and reporting skills, iReport Boot Camp, focused on fact checking and sourcing.…
New York Times Won’t Correct 2009 Rio Treaty Editorial, MediaBugs Says
MediaBugs wrote about former Outside magazine editor Hal Espen's attempts to get the New York Times to correct an error…
NDakota Reporter Lee Morris Quits, Claims Newspaper Suppresses Critical Letters to the Editor
A North Dakota community news editor wrote a column protesting his newspaper's owners, North Dakota news site Inforum reported.The editor,…
Blogger Behind Fake Quotes Attributed to NYT Columnist Paul Krugman
Blogger Carlos Graterol of the Campaign Fix blog admitted recently that he was posing as New York Times columnist Paul…
Dan Gillmor on Op-Eds:
Dan Gillmor criticized the media's willingness to publish op-eds that are ghost-written or essentially "public relations tactics" in a column…
N.C. Court Dismisses Libel Lawsuit Against Indian TV News for Reporting ‘Rumors,’ Says No Jurisdiction
A North Carolina court dismissed a $12 million libel lawsuit against Indian TV networks Sun TV Network, CNN-IBN, New Delhi…
No More ‘Fairness Doctrine’
The Federal Communications Commission axed "the Fairness Doctrine and 83 other 'outdated and obsolete media-related rules,'" Fox News reported. According…