by Sydney Smith on Jan 07, 2015
Globe & Mail: 40% Less Corrections in 2014, than 2013
The Globe and Mail published 450 corrections in 2014, public editor Sylvia Stead reported. Stead noted that while it's "certainly...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 07, 2015
Which News Outlets Will & Won’t Show Charlie Hebdo Cartoons? Part 2
More news outlets have announced they aren't going to show certain cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, whose...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 07, 2015
AP Unpublishes ‘Piss Christ’ Photo after Charlie Hebdo due to Provocativeness
The Associated Press unpublished a 1989 photograph "Piss Christ" from its site after the Washington Examiner claimed it was unfair...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2015
Fake North Korea Twitter Account Dupes Wash Post, Newsweek, Slate, Fox News, Reuters
Major news outlets were duped by a fake Twitter account purporting to be run by the North Korean government despite...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 05, 2015
Mike Huckabee Leaves Fox News because he may run for President
Mike Huckabee ended his weekly Fox News program this weekend to avoid a potential conflict of interest in case he...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 02, 2015
Toronto Star ran 172 fewer Corrections in 2014 than in 2013
The Toronto Star published 813 corrections in 2014 - a little more than 2 a day, according to the newspaper's...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2014
Patch Editor Can Protect Anonymous Source, Illinois Appellate Court rules
Patch.com editor Joseph Hosey will not have to identify his source used in reporting on a double murder last year...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 29, 2014
8 Best New York Times Corrections in 2014
In compiling our year-end corrections round-up, we realized many of our favorites this year came from the newspaper of record....
by Sydney Smith on Dec 27, 2014
Was Baltimore TV News edit ‘Kill a Cop’ an error?
After a protester complained, Baltimore TV news station Fox's WBFF, admitted that it mis-edited a video of police protesters at the...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 23, 2014
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. changes position, not scrubbing fired host Jian Ghomeshi’s work from CBC news site
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. decided against scrubbing fired host Jian Ghomeshi's work from its website after readers and viewers complained. Earlier...