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.…
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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 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…
Robert Niles : Journalism Should Embrace Online News Aggregation
“What’s the difference between aggregation and creating journalism?” Robert Niles asks in a March 2 post at the Online Journalism…
Los Angeles Times Sells Its Front Page For Disney Ad
In 2008, when a fake newspaper front page made a splash with commuters in New York City, the spoof turned out to be…
Good Housekeeping Seal Needed for Journalism?
This week saw studies from the Pew Research Center and the Society for New Communications Research documenting how the landscapes of…
Nature (Journal) responds to charge that Jared Diamond’s book review had undisclosed conflict
Last week, iMediaEthics critiqued Nature magazine for publishing a book review by geographer and popular science writer Jared Diamond that lacked…