by Sydney Smith on Aug 08, 2013
Libel Lawsuit against New Yorker Dismissed, Judge says Actual Malice Not Proven
Federal judge J. Paul Oetken dismissed Peter Paul Biro's libel lawsuit against the New Yorker magazine over its July 2010...
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by Sydney Smith on Aug 08, 2013
China’s Xinhua Hoaxed by Satire Story, Jeff Bezos Didn’t buy WashPost by Accident
China government-run Xinhua News was hoaxed by a satirical story claiming Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accidentally bought the Washington Post....
by Sydney Smith on Aug 08, 2013
BuzzFeed Takes Down Graphic Photo of Murdered Woman
BuzzFeed published and later took down a graphic photo of a murdered woman. The photo was posted by her husband,...
by Michael Schwartz on Aug 07, 2013
UK Sun Mocks Barcelona Manager’s Throat Cancer
Fans reacted to The UK Sun's use of two tasteless puns in a photo caption accompanying its report on former...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 06, 2013
Bloomberg Axes Editor for Fabrice Tourre Verdict Error
John Pickering was fired as an editor for Bloomberg News after he got the verdict wrong in a headline for a...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 05, 2013
AFP Bans criticism of ‘other media’ in Social Media Guideline Update
Agence France-Presse released new social media guidelines in mid-July. The guidelines call for the wire service's journalists to maintain "impartiality"...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 03, 2013
Forbes Writer who Wrongly Called Irish President Homosexual Resigns
David Monagan quit Forbes after wrongly reporting that Ireland's president Michael D. Higgins is an "acknowledged homosexual." As iMediaEthics previously...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 02, 2013
Sex Crime Victim: ‘Felt less-than-Human’ After Student Newspaper’s ‘Rap Pun’
Staff of Boston University's "independent student newspaper" the Daily Free Press will have to take "mandatory sensitivity training" after complaints...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 02, 2013
MTV Lebanon Airs Video of Suicide, Says No ‘bleeding corpse’ makes it OK
MTV Lebanon aired a video clip of a woman committing suicide, Magda Abu-Fadil, the director of Media Unlimited in Lebanon,...
by David W. Moore on Aug 01, 2013
Pew’s ‘America is Polarized’ Theme – Wrong Again!
It’s not clear why Pew seems so intent on characterizing the American public as “polarized.” That is the message in...