by Sydney Smith on Sep 17, 2013
EVENT: Media Ethics on Immigration, ‘Changing Media’ at ASU’s Cronkite School
Three New York Times public editors -- past public editors Clark Hoyt and Barney Calame and current public editor Margaret...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 15, 2013
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer’s 2013 Traffic Jam Story From 2010; Daily Beast, ABC Corrects
ABC News' Diane Sawyer corrected a Sept. 5, 2013 report about a traffic jam in China because the story was...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 13, 2013
Should Society of Professional Journalists Change its Name? Resolution Failed, but SPJ Prez is creating Task Force
The U.S.-based Society of Professional Journalists voted against changing its name to the Society for Professional Journalism during the 2013...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 12, 2013
Deseret News Finds Five More Columns with Attribution Issues, Suspends Unpaid Columnists for a Month
Utah-based daily newspaper The Deseret News suspended the publication of a column by Linda and Richard Eyre for a month...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2013
Wall Street Journal Reveals Syria Op-Ed Writer Affiliated w/ Syrian Emergency Task Force
The Wall Street Journal failed to disclose that Elizabeth O'Bagy, the author of its August 30 op-ed on Syria, works...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2013
Syria Op-Ed Writer Elizabeth O’Bagy Fired, Not a PhD, WSJ Fact Checking her OpEd
The Wall Street Journal told Politico that it didn't know op-ed writer Elizabeth O'Bagy had an "affiliation with the Syrian...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 10, 2013
People Mag Publishes Pic of Wrong Woman Reportedly Dating Google’s Sergey Brin
People magazine misidentified a random woman as Google employee Amanda Rosenberg, Gawker-owned Silicon Valley blog Valleywag reported. Since late August,...
by David W. Moore on Sep 10, 2013
7 Polls Show Slim Opening for Obama to Make Case for Air Strikes Against Syria
Seven polls were published on Monday, Sept. 9 about the proposed air strikes against Syria. The polls were sponsored by...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 09, 2013
PsyBlog Unpublishes Post Similar to NYTimes After iMediaEthics Inquiry
PsyBlog unpublished a blogpost after an iMediaEthics inquiry about proper attribution. PsyBlog's author, Jeremy Dean, told iMediaEthics he deleted his...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2013
Bloomberg to Get Ombudsman to Handle Complaints, Standards Editor for Accuracy
Bloomberg LP, which is the parent company for media outlets including Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, said last month that...