by Sydney Smith on Aug 15, 2010
Tips for ‘dealing with grief-stricken families’ from Journalism Prof
How can reporters write about deaths without speaking to the family of the deceased? Are there ways that reporters can...
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by Sydney Smith on Aug 14, 2010
WikiLeaks Part II: Secret Afghan Documents, News source or news site?
While it's openly an advocacy and whistleblower safe haven, WikiLeaks has also caused a stir by crossing into gray journalistic...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 13, 2010
WikiLeaks Part I: What Do We Know About WikiLeaks?
The late July publication of thousands of secret U.S. documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by the mysterious website...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 12, 2010
UnPublishing? WaPo Public Editor addresses requests to remove content
The Washington Post's public editor Andrew Alexander is the latest to weigh in on the unpublishing debate. "Unpublishing" is the word...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 11, 2010
CNN Mexican Cartel Story Features Unsupported Headline –
A CNN story last week may have grabbed readers' attention with its interesting but inaccurate title claiming that the FBI sees al...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 10, 2010
Basketball Player Anthony Davis May Sue Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is under fire for its publication of two anonymously sourced reports that the University of Kentucky intended...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 09, 2010
Do JournoList e-mails show journalists plotted?
Each time The Daily Caller publishes a set of e-mails from JournoList, the now-defunct listserv started and formerly operated by...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 08, 2010
Fred Barnes said not on ‘conservative team,’ Yet Republican Party pays him to speak
Journalist Fred Barnes wrote July 22 for the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page slamming liberal colleagues for disregarding the tenets...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 07, 2010
Historian and Wife Apologize, Pay Two Authors Defamed in Online “Poison Pen” Reviews
Professor Orlando Figes, the high-profile London historian who earlier this year fessed up to writing defamatory anonymous reviews of competitors' work on...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 06, 2010
Is anonymous commenting ending on the web? New York Post writer thinks so…
The New York Post's Annie Karni wrote in a July 18 column that she believes recent lawsuits indicate Internet anonymity...