by Sydney Smith on Jul 28, 2010
Media Roundup: Shirley Sherrod’s Firing and the Media
Georgia state official Shirley Sherrod was fired from her post as state director for rural development of the U.S. Department...
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by Sydney Smith on Jul 27, 2010
Advertiser’s logo featured during WABC-TV New York’s news broadcasts
Television news continues the current media trend to blur the boundary between advertising and news content to reap profits. The...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 26, 2010
Dallas News reporter finds doctored photo in Getty Images collection
Guy Reynolds, a photo editor at The Dallas News, wrote July 18 about his discovery that a Getty Images photo...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 25, 2010
NYTPicker calls out New York Times Reporter Brian Stelter for iPhone endorsement
The NYT Picker wrote July 16 that New York Times reporter Brian Stelter breached the newspaper's ethics policy on July...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 24, 2010
Fauxtography Classic: Famous World War II Photo Staged, Manipulated
A Soviet World War II photo inspired by the famous Iwo Jima flag raising image was both manipulated and staged, bloggers...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 22, 2010
Journalist Donald Rosenberg Suing Newspaper, Orchestra for His Removal From Music Beat
A reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer is suing both the newspaper and the Cleveland Orchestra. The reporter, Donald Rosenberg,...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 21, 2010
Pakistan Journalist Babar Ayaz Calls for Activated Press Council
Pakistani journalist Babar Ayaz called for the long delayed Pakistan's press council to be finally set up, in a June...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 19, 2010
Should Documentary Filmmakers be treated like Investigative Journalists? Amazon Crude Documentary footage up for grabs
Are documentary filmmakers in the same camp as investigative journalists? Should they be protected by the same source protection journalists...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 18, 2010
Australian Journalist Matt De Groot, Reported From Closed Doors Meeting
A journalist attended a conference the media had initially been invited to and heard a political figure speaking frankly about...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 17, 2010
More Reporters Fired for Sharing Opinions, Jokes in Online Postings
More reporters fired: One CNN reporter and four Arkansas TV reporters were fired in early July for things they posted...