by Sydney Smith on Jan 22, 2018
Corrections Roundup: Megadeth or Megadeath? Not the owner of a Cockfighting Ring
Sometimes, the error isn't as noteworthy as the context. In 2015, the Wall Street Journal misspelled the name of the...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 21, 2018
News UK settles 4 phone hacking cases, avoids trial
News Corp. UK settled four phone hacking cases this week related to 79 articles published in the now-closed News of...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 20, 2018
Belfast Telegraph Didn’t Contact Man It Claimed Stalked, Harassed & Threatened to Shoot Former Girlfriend
The Belfast Telegraph reported a woman's claims her "obsessed former boyfriend" had harassed her, threatened to shoot her, and stalked...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 19, 2018
Der Spiegel’s Editor-in-Chief’s Twitter hacked, posted fake apology to Turkey over News Reporting
No, Klaus Brinkbaumer, editor-in-chief of Germany's Der Spiegel, did not apologize for the news magazine's reporting on Turkey. But a...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 18, 2018
NPR Corrects ‘Major Mistakes’ in nearly year-old WWII ‘American-Internment Atrocity’ piece
NPR published several corrections of "major mistakes" as well as a second editor's note on an eleven-month-old story headlined, "The...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2018
Top 10 Media Ethics Issues of 2017
As in recent years, iMediaEthics has assembled our list of what we found to be ten of the most important...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2018
Japanese public broadcaster NHK tweets fake North Korean missile alert
A North Korean missile heading to Japan? Japanese public broadcaster NHK terrified millions of people on Jan. 16 when it...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2018
Why NPR Didn’t & Then Did Use ‘S–thole’ in reporting on Trump’s Immigration Comments
As all the world knows by now, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly used the word "shithole" in references to Haiti...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 15, 2018
UK Telegraph Erred & Singled out Black Student in Cambridge Univ. Diversity Article
A few months ago, the Daily Telegraph upset readers when it falsely claimed Cambridge University student Lola Olufemi called for...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 14, 2018
How Press Covers Courts, Deaths & Social Media: UK Regulator Offers Guidance for Public
The UK press regulator, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, wants the public to be "more confident in engaging with the...