by Sydney Smith on May 23, 2014
#Bringourgirlsback Photos NOT from Nigeria, Mislabeled on Social Media, BBC, CBC
Social media and two media outlets have used photos from Guinea-Bissau in their coverage of the Nigerian school girls kidnapped...
Photojournalism Ethics
by Sydney Smith on Apr 25, 2014
NY Daily News IDs WRONG boy in Conn. HS girl Stabbing story, Suspect still unnamed
Speeding to be first, The New York Daily News made a giant, damaging error today by wrongly IDing a teenager...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 21, 2014
Paul Weller’s 3 Children to be paid by Daily Mail for Privacy Violation
UK musician Paul Weller testified in court that he told the photographer to stop taking pictures of his children but...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 17, 2014
UK Mirror Uses Stock photo of U.S. Child for UK poverty story
The UK Daily Mirror used a dramatic stock photo of a U.S. girl without saying so to illustrate a report...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 13, 2014
Why the Guardian published photo of grief-stricken MH370 family member
A "small handful" of readers complained about the Guardian's decision to publish a front-page photo of an emotional family member...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 06, 2014
No More Paparazzi Pics of Celeb kids, Celeb Magazines Promise
Celebrity website Celebuzz announced in late March that it will no longer publish paparazzi photos of celebrities' children. Numerous outlets...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 24, 2014
Obamas Photoshopped into Apes, Belgian newspaper apologizes for ‘tasteless joke’
Belgian newspaper De Morgen apologized for doctoring photos to show Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. De Morgen is a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 25, 2014
Man on Fire in Ukraine Front page photo criticized in Globe & Mail
On Feb. 19, The Globe and Mail published a graphic front-page photograph of a man on fire in Ukraine. The image shows...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 23, 2014
Burma President Photoshopped Into Dancer, Media Ethics Fail?
“We are trying to promote ethics among journalists, so I am upset by this," Ko Ko, the editor of The...