Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Boston Herald suspends Ron Borges after Tom Brady salary hoax

The Boston Herald suspended sports columnist Ron Borges after he was duped by a hoaxer posing as New England Patriots...

In their recent columns, two Canadian public editors, Sylvia Stead of the Globe and Mail and Kathy English of the...

The Athens Banner-Herald's web edition, OnlineAthens, was thrown for a loss by a fake interview with someone posing as former...

The Branding Iron, the student newspaper for the University of Wyoming, published a story that featured fake quotes and plagiarized...

Maybe the reporters and editors at The Daily Telegraph should go back to school because they just flunked interpretive reading. To...

Fake news is all the talk in mainstream and social media, but student publications have largely been left out of...

People magazine unpublished a profile of a man who was allegedly killed in the Las Vegas shooting earlier this month....

It would seem to be the blockbuster business story of the millennium. That is, two of the biggest companies and...

Unsigned professional football player Colin Kaepernick didn't tell CBS he would stand for the national anthem if he was signed...