Why the Toronto Star Stopped identifying an 11-year-old girl who made up Hijab Attack
An 11-year-old Toronto girl claimed earlier this month that her hijab had been cut on her way to school. The…
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Irish magazine Village sued over Sexual Harassment Editorial
Village, an Irish political and cultural magazine, published an editorial about the "peaceful revolution" against sexual harassment leading to the…
10th Annual Top Ten Dubious Polling Awards
Editor’s note: Every January, iMediaEthics’ polling director David W. Moore assembles the top ten “Dubious Polling Awards” for iMediaEthics. The tongue-in-cheek awards…
Corrections Roundup: Megadeth or Megadeath? Not the owner of a Cockfighting Ring
Sometimes, the error isn't as noteworthy as the context. In 2015, the Wall Street Journal misspelled the name of the…
News UK settles 4 phone hacking cases, avoids trial
News Corp. UK settled four phone hacking cases this week related to 79 articles published in the now-closed News of…
Belfast Telegraph Didn’t Contact Man It Claimed Stalked, Harassed & Threatened to Shoot Former Girlfriend
The Belfast Telegraph reported a woman's claims her "obsessed former boyfriend" had harassed her, threatened to shoot her, and stalked…
Der Spiegel’s Editor-in-Chief’s Twitter hacked, posted fake apology to Turkey over News Reporting
No, Klaus Brinkbaumer, editor-in-chief of Germany's Der Spiegel, did not apologize for the news magazine's reporting on Turkey. But a…
NPR Corrects ‘Major Mistakes’ in nearly year-old WWII ‘American-Internment Atrocity’ piece
NPR published several corrections of "major mistakes" as well as a second editor's note on an eleven-month-old story headlined, "The…
Top 10 Media Ethics Issues of 2017
As in recent years, iMediaEthics has assembled our list of what we found to be ten of the most important…
Japanese public broadcaster NHK tweets fake North Korean missile alert
A North Korean missile heading to Japan? Japanese public broadcaster NHK terrified millions of people on Jan. 16 when it…