by Katie Rolnick on Oct 29, 2009
British Documentary Starsuckers Takes Aim at News Media
Starting this weekend, audiences in the UK will come face to face with their own obsession: celebrity. In the new...
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by Katie Rolnick on Oct 28, 2009
Stephen J. A. Ward Goes Meta with Social Media Guidelines
Last week, we wrote about National Public Radio's recent release of social media guidelines, close on the heels of the...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 28, 2009
Yo! Columbia Journalism Grad Students Bring the Beat to Ethics, Rapping Ethics Guidelines
If you find the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics a dry read -- or simply prefer to have...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 27, 2009
Did the White House Try to Block Fox News’ Access to “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg?
We've been following the feud between the White House and Fox News. What supposedly began as an attempt by the...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 27, 2009
Fact-Checking Media Matters’s claim: Fox & Friends’ Wrong On Two Polling Questions?
MediaMatters.org, a progressive website dedicated to correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, brought up two instances of bad poll...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 26, 2009
Bioethicist Cites Bad Flu Reporting, Asks: Can We Really Expect Any Better From Journalism?
The spring and fall flu seasons this year have spurred a flood of sensationalist medical reporting focused on the H1N1...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 26, 2009
Former NY Times Reporter Linda Greenhouse Tells Young Journalists To Put Truth Before Facts
In the October 21 edition of the Cornell Daily Sun, reporter Dani Neuharth-Keusch gives a rundown of the previous day’s lecture on...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 25, 2009
NPR Joins the Pack of Media Outlets Issuing Social Media Guidelines
Last week National Public Radio joined ranks with the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and others by issuing social...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 24, 2009
Joe Romm, Climate Progress Blog, Criticised for Quote Feeding: He defends it’s “exceedingly common” among journalists
One of the first rules of honest journalism is to approach a source or subject with an open mind. Sure,...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 24, 2009
Reuters Falls For Chamber Of Commerce Hoax: Says Report Could Have Affected Markets
Reuters (and subsequently The New York Times and Washington Post) fell for a hoax press release issued by the farcical...