by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
Portrait Photographer Drops Lawsuit Over Copyrighted Photo of Shooting Victim
A portrait photographer, Jon Wolf, dropped his lawsuit on Feb. 14 against "nearly three dozen media outlets" for using a...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2011
Breitbart Sued by Shirley Sherrod for Libel, Video Edits
Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA official who was quickly fired last year after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart published an edited...
by David W. Moore on Feb 14, 2011
Do Egyptians Really Want ‘Democracy?’ Reinterpreting the Pew Report
According to a recent Pew Global Attitudes Project article, a Pew poll of Muslims in Egypt last year found that...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 13, 2011
Twitter Ethics? Should Wrong Tweets Be Deleted or Corrected?
Should news organizations delete the inaccurate information? Or should they issue a correction tweet? iMediaEthics has written about this topic before...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2011
NYT Published Cows Fell From Planes, Duped by Urban Legend
Earlier this week, the New York Times corrected a Jan. 16 article about "drilling for oil off the coast of...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2011
Regret the Error’s Craig Silverman Offers Free Book in exchange for “Accuracy Checklist”
Craig Silverman, who runs the website Regret the Error and wrote the book by the same name, offered journalists a free...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2011
Washington Post Adds Feature to Request Corrections
In a Feb. 8 blogpost, the Washington Post announced the new "correction submit form." The feedback form is on the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2011
CIA calls AP ‘Reckless’ for ‘Partially’ Naming CIA Officers in Investigative Report
The CIA criticized the Associated Press for "partially identifying several current and former officers," YahooNews reported. The identification was made...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 11, 2011
US Weekly, TIME Hoaxed By Fake Palin Quotes about Deporting Christina Aguilera
Both US Weekly and TIME apparently were hoaxed by a satire article claiming Sarah Palin called out Christina Aguilera for...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 10, 2011
NY Daily News Unpublished Stories by Freelancer Rob Sgobbo For Faking Sources in Village Voice
As iMediaEthics previously reported, in January the Village Voice retracted and apologized for one of its stories by Rob Sgobbo, a...