New York Times Wary of Advertising Tweets
If anything, the walls between advertising and reporting (a necessary sisterhood in traditional, for-profit media) should be shored up. But with…
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Ethics of Low- to No-Paying Journalism Jobs
One of the disturbing features of an expanding online journalism presence (coupled with a troubled industry) is a growing heap of free…
Update: Editor & Publisher Operating Interim-Blog
Editor & Publisher, a 125-year old magazine covering the newspaper industry, shut its doors December 31. We reported earlier on a…
Censorship of Illinois Student Paper The Statesman Raises Ethical Questions
For high school journalists, it doesn’t always take a Supreme Court Justice to silence the press. Adlai E. Stevenson High…
Politico Lists the Year’s Worst Media Blunders
If iMediaEthics' most popular stories of the year, or Craig Silverman’s best of the worst list of media corrections weren’t enough…
Media Ethics Site, The Hoot, Watches Indian Media
We are on hiatus here at iMediaEthics, so today's post is brief. A media watchdog site in India, "The Hoot,…
David Goldman Custody Battle: NBC Defends Against Charge of “Checkbook Journalism”
After NBC offered David Goldman and his son Sean a free plane ride back to the United States from Brazil…
Frontline’s David Fanning Condemns “Sponsorship” in Public Broadcasting
iMediaEthics recently wrote about the ethical questions raised by new kinds of corporate sponsorship for public radio, and we highlighted NPR…
TMZ Hoaxed : Mistakes Playboy Photo For an Image of John F. Kennedy
Media hoaxes don’t appear to take a break for the holidays and, luckily, neither do hoax-breakers. Monday, celebrity news website…
Tiger Woods Beats Out 9/11 for Most Consecutive New York Post Cover Stories: 20 Times in a Row
It looks like Tiger Woods has another trophy to add to the mantle above his fireplace. That is, the beleaguered…