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Sun ‘Tran and Wife’ Headline on Wedding Notice got 7 complaints to IPSO

The UK Sun upset readers when it published a front page story on a transgender couple who got married. Why?…

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Corrections: Moses got water from Iraq? Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks

iMediaEthics latest correction round-up includes Moses and millenials. Moses did not bring water from Iraq. The Wall Street Journal reported…

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BBC Wrongly said Muslim scholar said ‘Jews are descended from pigs’

The BBC claimed Dr. Haitham al-Haddad, a Muslim jurist and judge for the Islamic Sharia Council, said that "Jews were descended…

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Weekly Chicago Newspaper fires Editor over payment from political candidate

The Chicago Defender, a weekly African-American newspaper in Chicago, fired its managing editor, Mary L. Datcher, because of her work…

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Why the Toronto Star is not using a mugshot of accused serial killer Bruce McArthur

Even though some readers were upset, the Toronto Star will continue to publish Facebook photos of Bruce McArthur, the Canadian…

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ABC co-host faces blowback after ‘insensitive’ interview with disability advocate Carly Findlay

Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio cohost Jon Faine admitted "a number of his questions and comments were insensitive" when interviewing Carly…

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Austin ABC-affiliate cans closed captioning company after bombing victim called ‘monkey’

Austin ABC-affiliate KVUE called Austin bombing victim Draylen Mason "this young man." But closed captioning wrongly claimed the reporter called…

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Intercept Issues Correction on ICE & Facebook Story, Says Editor Inserted Errors

The Intercept posted a significant correction in a March 26 story, "ICE uses Facebook data to find and track suspects,…

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Kerslake Report on What Media did Wrong in Reporting on Manchester bombing

Did UK media ethically report on the Manchester bombing at the Ariana Grande concert last year? The May 2017 suicide…

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Will ESPN get a new public editor? Jim Brady ends his term

Jim Brady, who was appointed ESPN's sixth public editor in November 2015, published his final column in that role this month.…

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