by Sydney Smith on Dec 27, 2012
Hoaxes, Fake Quotes & Fake Stories: Best of 2012
10) CNBC hoaxed by email interview about NBA Escorts Seven months after his story claiming escort services were financially suffering...
10) CNBC hoaxed by email interview about NBA Escorts Seven months after his story claiming escort services were financially suffering...
Igniting much controversy, the White Plains Journal News, a daily newspaper in White Plains, N.Y., published a list and map detailing...
Mediaite misidentified Randi Zuckerberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's brother in a story about a private photo of the Zuckerberg...
Norman P. Lewis, assistant professor in journalism for University of Florida, writes about a lesser-known form of plagiarism in his...
Der Spiegel apologized after reporting former U.S. president George H. W. Bush had died. Bush has been in the hospital recently...
Local TV sports anchor Randy Shaver and his news director Jane Helmke defended against any possible conflict of interest in...
Journalists including New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan were tricked by a phony Twitter account posing as author Philip...
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz complained after the New York Times "egregiously misquoted" him in a front-page story last month on...
George Will commented last month on ABC's This Week Sunday that “Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying....
In light of reader criticism of reporting on December's Connecticut school shootings, two public editors -- NPR's Edward Schumacher-Matos and...