by Sydney Smith on Oct 06, 2018
Piers Morgan Veteran Segment didn’t include statement from criticized org
ITV's Good Morning Britain aired a segment about a homeless veteran and a petition with more than half-a-million signatures to...
Ombudsmen/Press Councils
by Sydney Smith on Sep 30, 2018
Is Location of Suicide Too Much Info to Publish?
Best practices for reporting on suicide dictate that journalists shouldn't provide too much information about how someone died. But does...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 29, 2018
Editor misread article, wrote bad headline
The Oxford Mail, a daily newspaper in Oxford, England, claimed a local mayor was "forced to hand over the chains." But,...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 26, 2018
New Journalistic Standards Guide for all TorStar publications
The Toronto Star and all Torstar publications have a new Journalistic Standards Guide, public editor Kathy English reported. Torstar includes...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 18, 2018
Former mayor complains after news outlet says she was dead
A local UK news outlet, HemelToday.co.uk, claimed that Gillian Chapman, the former mayor of the Borough of Dacorum, had died...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 16, 2018
NPR will ask Trump Administration Officials if They Signed Non-Disclosure Agreements
NPR staff will now ask interviewees who are or were affiliated with the Trump administration if they signed a non-disclosure...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 15, 2018
OK to Quote from Reader E-mail, Not Invasion, Media Council Says
It was OK to publish quotes from an e-mail from a reader to a journalist since the writer didn't indicate...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 12, 2018
Indigenous Report on Australia’s Channel Seven Broke Broadcast Rules
A program on Australia's Channel Seven suggested that a "'generation' of young Indigenous children [were] being abused." This disturbing pronouncement...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2018
Who will be next PBS public editor? Madhulika Sikka leaves for WashPost
The search for a new PBS ombudsman, or public editor, is on again. Madhulika Sikka, who had been in the role...