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The Skinny on the Fat Murderer Hoax: Media Need to Update Stories

When a story catches international attention, but turns out to be a hoax, should media update and clarify original stories...

After Jayson Blair spoke to students at Virginia’s Washington and Lee University this fall, many may have hoped that this...

In a December 8 commentary on Minnesota Public Radio’s online news site, Haddayr Copley-Woods, a journalist and blogger posed the...

Last week it was announced that Editor & Publisher, a source iMediaEthics has long appreciated, would be shutting down January 1....

NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard focused her December 14 column on Planet Money, an NPR podcast/blog and its relationship to its monied-sponsor,...

Shrinking ranks of staff journalists and a growing pool of freelancers pose ethical problems both for the rights and safety...

Reporters are expected to identify sources; using anonymous sources drains a certain level of credibility from a story, as former...

December presents an opportunity for newspapers and other media venues to print an uplifting or solemn retrospective on the year: best...

There’s been a lot of media commentary on the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of...

With so many newspapers trying to figure out how to get their readers to pay for web content, it was...