by Sydney Smith on Apr 20, 2012
New Shield Law to Protect Sources in Tribal Court Cases
Journalists "in tribal court cases" -- even if they're not with a tribal news outlet -- now have a shield...
Anonymous Sources
by Sydney Smith on Apr 13, 2012
Subpoena Calls for Confidential Tapes in Researchers’ IRA Interviews
The Police Service of Northern Ireland wants U.S.-based Irish reporter Ed Moloney and his researcher Anthony McIntyre to identify his...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 10, 2012
NYDaily News Story on Rabbit Has 3 Bylines, Anonymous Sourcing?
A March story in the New York Daily News caught iMediaEthics' publisher Rhonda Roland Shearer's eye. The story's byline carried...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 07, 2012
NBC News Producer Fired in Investigation into Selectively Edited George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin 911 Call
An NBC News producer was fired April 5 as a result of the NBC News investigation into how an edited...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 24, 2012
AP Names Govt Officials Who Asked to be Anonymous during Sunshine Week
The Associated Press ignored a White House request for anonymity, Yahoo News Dylan Stableford reported. According to Yahoo News, the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 24, 2012
News Orgs Back NYT’s James Risen’s Bid to Protect Anonymous Sources
"More than two dozen news organizations" have asked Virginia's U.S. district court in a "friend-of-the-court brief" to allow New York...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2012
UK Journalists Union Questions Anonymous Source Protection in News Corp Investigation
UK's National Union of Journalists argued that the UK arrests of journalists and searches of their homes is violating "press...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 06, 2012
Michele Bachmann Calls for the Boston Globe to Retract Story
U.S. congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed the Boston Globe's story "that speculated she'd be throwing her support behind Mitt Romney" during his...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 04, 2012
3 Anonymous Sources to be named for Australian Defamation Suit
An Australian Supreme Court called for three journalists from Australia's The Age newspaper to identify three anonymous sources in order...