by Sydney Smith on May 24, 2012
Chinese TV Host’s Social Media Posts Call for Gov to ‘clean out the foreign trash’
Chinese TV host Yang Rui claims ChinaGeeks.org editor Charlie Custer "damaged his reputation" by claiming Yang was xenophobic for a...
Hate Speech
by Sydney Smith on May 09, 2012
Ghana Journalists Association Wants Broadcasting Law to Regulate, Enforce Ethics & Standards
Ghana's Journalists Association called for a broadcasting law to help avoid the broadcast of "abusive, threatening, hate speech or otherwise...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2012
Ghana’s National Media Commission: No Inflammatory, Discriminatory or Inciting Language Please
Ghana's National Media Commission issued a statement about the media's publication of "inflammatory language, especially hate speech and language which...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 10, 2012
Jewish Rutgers Student Files Bias Complaint after Satire Article Praising Hitler
Rutgers University student satire newspaper The Medium published an April 4 column "What about the good things Hitler did?" under...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 09, 2012
CNN Apologizes for F-Word, N-Word Use; 2nd Time N-Word Aired in Past Month
CNN correspondent Susan Candiotti and CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield both apologized after Candiotti said "profanities" from a Facebook post during...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2012
Gawker’s Seth Abramovitch Fired for Post with Racial Slur
Gawker's Seth Abramovitch was fired Jan. 5 after his blogpost about rapper Kanye West's tweets, the New York Observer reported....
by Sydney Smith on Dec 29, 2011
Jackie Magazine Un-apologizes for Rihanna Racial Slur?
The publisher of Jackie magazine, which called Rihanna a "n---- b----," reportedly claimed the magazine did "nothing wrong" with its...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 27, 2011
Toronto Star Readers Weigh in on Editorial Decisions in Public Editor’s Annual Survey
Toronto Star public editor Kathy English published the results of her survey of readers on editorial decisions last week. English...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 21, 2011
Eva Hoeke Out as Magazine Editor after Rihanna Racial Slur
Dutch fashion magazine editor Eva Hoeke stepped down this week because of a controversial article about singer Rihanna in which her...