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...
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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 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 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 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 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...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 18, 2013
3 Media Missteps in Navy Yard Shootings Reporting
The Sept. 16 Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C., produced a flurry of media missteps, misidentifications, and photojournalism errors. CBS...
by David W. Moore on Sep 18, 2013
The Curious Case of a Democratic-Leaning Pollster Admitting It Withheld Poll Results That Favored a Republican
Last week, Public Policy Polling revealed it had conducted a poll in Colorado Senate District 3 prior to the recall...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 19, 2013
Bloomberg New Standards Editor ‘Inside News’; Ombudsman, ‘Outside News’
Bloomberg L.P. has appointed its first standards editor and its first ombudsman. The company named former New York Times public...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 21, 2013
How New York Times Got Putin Op-Ed and Why it Published it
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan blogged Sept. 12 about Russian president Vladimir Putin's high-profile op-ed for the Times....