by Sydney Smith on Jan 25, 2012
NYTimes Corrects: 46 Million U.S. people not on Xanax
The New York Times issued a Jan. 22 correction to its Jan. 15 opinion article that incorrectly reported in its...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2012
News Corp Paying More than £1 million + Legal Costs to 37 Phone Hacking Victims, Including Jude Law
News International will pay "well over £1 million" and legal costs to News of the World phone hacking victims, the...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2012
PressTV Loses its OfCom License
The UK broadcast regulator OfCom "revoked the UK license of Iranian state broadcaster Press TV," Journalism.co.uk reported. According to Journalism.co.uk,...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2012
New Fact Check Site FlackCheck Checks Political Ads, Journalism
The University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center started a website called Flackcheck.org to "fact check political ads and political...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2012
New Zealand’s Media Regulation ‘Outdated,’ former NZ Journalist Says
Linda Clark, a former political editor for New Zealand TV news outlet, TVNZ, argued that New Zealand's self-regulatory model is...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2012
SC Voters Sent e-mail Posing as CNN Jan.19
Last week, an e-mail posing as a CNN news alert was "sent to Republican activists in South Carolina" on Jan....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 23, 2012
Nigerian Newspaper Attacked, Says Attack was Retaliaton for Running Story Govt Didn’t Like
Nigeria's National Union of Journalists president Muhammed Garba weighed in on "recent attack on the Kano regional office of Media...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 23, 2012
Jewish Times Apologizes, Retracts Story Suggesting a ‘Hit’ on Obama
Jewish newspaper the Atlanta Jewish Times is retracting its column that suggested putting a "hit" on U.S. president Barack Obama,...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 22, 2012
NBC Reporter’s DUI Prompts Source-Reporter Ethics Questions
The Washington Times' Gayle Falkenthal questioned in December the "distance reporters need to maintain from their sources" after the police...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 22, 2012
Bahrain Journalists Association Published Ethics Code Jan. 20
The Bahrain Journalists Association finalized its code of ethics and published it Jan. 20, according to Bahrain News Agency. We...