Herald de Paris calls Gawker out for plagiarism, no transparency
News website Herald de Paris is calling gossip Web site Gawker out for plagiarism. Gawker’s reaction? According to Herald de…
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Wyoming Judge Issues, then Lifts Restraining Order Against Newspapers
A Wyoming judge lifted May 25 a temporary restraining order keeping two newspapers from publishing stories on a community college…
Should Anonymous Commenters Be Treated Like Sources By News Sites?
One important change made when Great Britain's The Times and Sunday Times re-launched their Web sites May 25 was the…
Eyeball editing: Print media’s overuse of spell-checker creates howlers
Robert Buckman's Faux Pas Files column highlights common spelling errors in headlines, subheds, and cutlines. As promised, after castigating my…
Free Press Launches MediaFail Web site, user-generated examples of bad media
The New York Times’s Media Decoder blog reported May 24 that the nonprofit organization Free Press “has built a Digglike…
How Immigration Poll Majorities Are Born In The USA
Pollsters around the country are asking if voters are for or against the new Arizona immigration law. Problem is, a…
Readers criticize The New York Times’ City Room blog about the late Hank Jones
Is it ethical for a reporter to go in a recently deceased man’s apartment and then write a blog entry…
New York Times’ Reports on Richard Blumenthal Questioned by Media Outlets
Starting May 17, The New York Times has published several articles and a 58-second video to call Richard Blumenthal out…
Shield Laws Update: Called not a journalist by NJ Courts, Blogger explains her case
A New Jersey appeals court recently ruled that blogger and investigator Shellee Hale is not a journalist and therefore not…
Wichita Eagle Court Reporter Ron Sylvester Doesn’t Disclose His Wife’s Firm Represents "Pill Mill" Defendants
Wichita Eagle reporter Ron Sylvester has live tweeted from the court room extensively on the cases related to "pill mill"…