Michigan State Senator Proposes Bill to License Journalists, Purposely Causes Debate
Michigan State Senator Bruce Patterson (R-Wayne County) has introduced a bill that would license journalists in the state of Michigan. The bill…
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News Organizations Cut Costs by Not Flying with President Obama
The New York Times wrote May 23 that many news organizations are cutting costs by not sending reporters with President…
Ben Franklin Project Pushes for More Transparency and Reader Involvement in 19 Daily Newspapers
To mark Independence Day, all Journal Register newspapers will try out the Benjamin Franklin Project on July 4. The Journal Register Company has…
Newsweek Corrects Photo Caption To Disclose Image is Illustration
Four of the soldiers pictured appear twice. The Newsweek photo suggests there are 11 soldiers, but there are really only…
Fox News’ Obama Speech Video : Was it intentionally edited to remove applause?
Bloggers questioned if Fox News removed 12 seconds of applause from the May 22 commencement speech Barack Obama gave at West Point.…
Nat Geo Calls out Photographer William Lascelles for Submitting Fake Photo to Contest
In its June 2010 issue, National Geographic published a column calling out photographer William Lascelles for submitting altered photographs to…
Irish Film Institute Discovers News Photo Really a War Film Still
The Irish Film Institute has discovered that a long-used news photo is not a documentation of a 1920 event, but…
AP Reports Their Fact Checking Stories as the Most Clicked, Most Linked
Greg Sargent blogged on The Washington Post’s Plum Line May 19 about the Associated Press’s “strong fact-checking work.” Sargent reported that…
Journalists Question the Ethics of Sarah Ferguson Sting
When News of the World caught Sarah Ferguson on camera accepting money from "fake sheikh" Mazher Mahmoud for access to her ex-husband,…
Las Vegas Review-Journal Sues Websites for Reposting Its Articles
RGJ.com reported May 30 that the Las Vegas Review-Journal is suing Web sites that have copied Review-Journal stories on to…