First Fauxtography…Now Fauxdio? Montage of Obama Words on BBC
TonyK at Harmless Sky blog discovered that the BBC treated Obama's inaugural speech as if it were a magnetic poetry…
Latest News
Russia Today Uses Video Clips from Titanic for Arctic Ocean Exploration News
"I'll never let go. I promise. I'll never let go." Recognize these lines? If you were around in the late…
Grant Created for Citizen Journalists
MSNBC.com reports that YouTube and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting have teamed up to award an aspiring journalist a…
New PR Firm Poses Ethical Test for Journalists
“Handling conflicts of interest - ensuring clear loyalties and clean hands - is emerging as perhaps the signature ethical challenge…
Consumer Alert…NY TIMES Wants Citizen Journalists’ Photos:
The New York Times wants to publish your inauguration photos. Sounds exciting right? Maybe not. Read the fine print of…
Profiling is Alive and Well in the Dog World: Pitbull didn’t maul California owner
Once again, pit bulls are the target of slow news day filler. On December 19, Gerald Adelmund, 60, of Riverside,…
BBC Misquotes Famous Author Dorothy Rowe on Religion
A BBC radio program, What Do You Believe, took author Dorothy Rowe's comments about religion and spun them into a…
Part I: The Unspoken Peril for "Citizen Journalists"
Citizen journalists provide content to for-profit media outlets without getting paid. It turns out since content has value, IRS rules…
Accidental Plagiarism Leads To Bigger Question: Editor and Publisher Lifts AP
While reading the article "More News Sharing Content -- Cutting Competition" on Editor and Publisher (E&P), I noticed there was…