by Sydney Smith on May 30, 2010
Should Anonymous Commenters Be Treated Like Sources By News Sites?
One important change made when Great Britain's The Times and Sunday Times re-launched their Web sites May 25 was the...
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by Robert Buckman on May 29, 2010
Eyeball editing: Print media’s overuse of spell-checker creates howlers
As promised, after castigating my broadcast colleagues in the last column for their sloppiness and over-reliance on spell-checkers in writing...
by Sydney Smith on May 29, 2010
Free Press Launches MediaFail Web site, user-generated examples of bad media
The New York Times’s Media Decoder blog reported May 24 that the nonprofit organization Free Press “has built a Digglike...
by George F. Bishop on May 28, 2010
How Immigration Poll Majorities Are Born In The USA
Virtually every legitimate- or junk-poll these days turns up a majority (or seeming majority) in favor of the recently passed...
by Sydney Smith on May 28, 2010
Readers criticize The New York Times’ City Room blog about the late Hank Jones
Is it ethical for a reporter to go in a recently deceased man’s apartment and then write a blog entry...
by Sydney Smith on May 27, 2010
New York Times’ Reports on Richard Blumenthal Questioned by Media Outlets
Starting May 17, The New York Times has published several articles and a 58-second video to call Richard Blumenthal out...
by Sydney Smith on May 26, 2010
Shield Laws Update: Called not a journalist by NJ Courts, Blogger explains her case
A New Jersey appeals court recently ruled that blogger and investigator Shellee Hale is not a journalist and therefore not...
by Sydney Smith on May 25, 2010
WGN Ch. 9 Chicago Partners With L.L.Bean, Brands Reporters With Logo
Phil Rosenthal reported in The Chicago Tribune May 19 that WGN Channel 9 and L.L.Bean have partnered, exchanging L.L.Bean outerwear for a...
by Sydney Smith on May 24, 2010
Australian Media Controversy: Is outing a gay politician in the public’s interest?
Australian media is currently figuring out the difference between what’s of public interest and what’s interesting. Australian broadcast news Channel...
by Sydney Smith on May 23, 2010
Washington Post’s Public Editor Says the Paper is Improving its Corrections System
The Washington Post’s public editor Andrew Alexander blogged May 18 that the newspaper’s corrections problem is finally improving Alexander wrote that “readers...