Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

German Media Falls for Wikipedia Prank…But Claim They Were Victims

The Local, an English language German news site, reports that the German press ran to Wikipedia to research the country’s...

Apparently, The New York Post was more concerned about catchy consonance captions than accurately reporting the facts in a recent...

Reporters sometimes make it all too obvious that they haven’t done sufficient research before publishing a story. A routine web...

Donald W. Meyers, Salt Lake Tribune, reports that the typo on the front page of Brigham Young University's The Daily...

The Plum Line, Greg Sargent's blog, reported that ABC News made a inaccurate factual claim in a headline by adding...

WorldNetDaily (WND) published an exclusive report: "Bogus GI rape photos used as Arab propaganda" (05/04/04). They reveal in their report...

This is #1 in a series of iMediaEthics blog posts that will respond to Jared Diamond’s and New Yorker’s exclusive statements...

This is #2 in a series of imediaethics.org blog posts that respond to Jared Diamond’s and New Yorker’s exclusive statements...

Chris Dunn, in her blog, Words and Light: An exploration of (photo) journalism, first refers to the Newseum Guidebook cover...