by Sydney Smith on Jan 08, 2019
ESPN played ‘Dixie’ with Andrew Luck, Civil War graphic
ESPN broadcast a graphic depicting the quarterback for the NFL Indianapolis Colts, Andrew Luck, as a Union general during the...
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by on Jan 07, 2019
JonBenet Ramsey’s brother settles defamation suit against CBS
JonBenet Ramsey's brother, Burke Ramsey, settled his libel lawsuit against CBS for its Sept. 2016 documentary The Case of: JonBenet...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2019
Canadian TV News claimed mosques wouldn’t let women on worksite
Canada's TVA Nouvelles, a French TV broadcast news station, admitted it aired "inaccurate and unfounded" information in a news story...
by on Jan 05, 2019
2018’s Top 15 Eye-catching Corrections
15. Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins was detained in South Africa in 2018. But the UK Mirror had to correct after...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 04, 2019
UK news story on suicide could have caused copycat deaths, regulator rules
The UK Northampton Chronicle & Echo broke guidelines for reporting on suicide by publishing way too much information about the...
by Sydney Smith , Sydney Smith on Jan 04, 2019
Le Monde sorry its Macron image suggested Nazism
Le Monde's editor Luc Bronner apologized for a front-page illustration that readers thought compared President Emmanuel Macron to Hitler. The...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 03, 2019
Der Spiegel: Reporter Collected Donations for Fake Syrian Orphan, Charges to be Pressed
Der Spiegel is pressing charges against former reporter Claas Relotius, who the German magazine revealed had faked interviews and articles....
by on Jan 02, 2019
NPR’s Mueller investigation story had ‘sloppy editing,’ wasn’t labeled analysis
An NPR article on the Robert Mueller investigation had "sloppy editing" and failed to include the "analysis" label, NPR public...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 01, 2019
Latvia gets Media Ethics Council
Latvian journalism organizations created a media ethics council this month. The Latvian media ethics council plans to have a journalism...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 31, 2018
Washington Examiner unpublishes shutdown article, ‘did not meet’ editorial standards
The Washington Examiner unpublished an article about the government shutdown because it "did not meet the Washington Examiner's editorial standards."...