Sued for plagiarism? It can cost you money….
Everybody knows that plagiarism can get you fired from a job or expelled from a university, but less known is that plagiarism…
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Today is Robert Buckman's inaugural column on StinkyJournalism. Buckman,Ph,D., is an associate professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and…
Jeffrey Goldberg: ‘Atlantic’s Web site has no fact-checking standards’
Columbia Journalism Review's recent study of magazine's Web sites asked editors if their Internet content was copy edited and fact…
Are You Journalist Enough for a Press Pass?
The perennial “new media” question of who is and who isn’t a journalist also includes: Who gets a press pass? Yes,…
Toyota Says Whole ABC News Acceleration Test (Not Just Video) Was Faulty
iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week about ABC News’ manipulated video supposedly showing a test of unplanned acceleration in a Toyota vehicle.…
Can Media Bias Ever Be Good? The Ethics of Environment ‘Bias’
Fairness, balance, objectivity, truth, bias… These words get used a lot in discussions of journalistic ethics. But not every journalist…
Dodge City Reporter Claire O’Brien Fired After Reporters’ Privilege Fight
The embattled Kansas reporter Claire O’Brien--who refused to reveal a confidential source and story notes from her jailhouse interview to Ford County…
ABC News Fakes ‘Live-Action’ Video of Toyota Test
Just as in print stories, images and videos that are broadcast on television are subject to editing. And, just as manipulating…
To Catch a Plagiarist, Set a Trap: More on Zachary Kouwe
In the aftermath of Zachary Kouwe’s plagiarism and departure from the New York Times, Clark Hoyt, the Times' reader’s editor…
CJR Study : Magazines’ Web Content Copy editing is done ‘Less Rigorously’
This week, the Columbia Journalism Review published the results of their survey of editorial practices at magazine Web sites (Web…