by Sydney Smith on Dec 05, 2017
Mail Online Wrongly Reported 10-Day-Old Tweet as News
Tweets, like milk, should come with expiration dates. Case in point: The Mail Online wrongly claimed that a truck drove...
International Media Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Nov 30, 2017
Graphic photos of car accident an invasion of privacy, Australian press council says
News.com.au published graphic photos of a two-car accident that killed a woman just after it happened. Doing so was an...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 28, 2017
Mail Online pays out over Katie Hopkins’ false claim, ends contract with columnist
Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins falsely claimed a British teacher, Jackie Teale, took her class to a Donald Trump protest. Not...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 17, 2017
BBC and NPR duped by fake Twitter account for Zanu-PF?
Shortly after the military coup that arrested President Robert Mugabe apparently to remove him from office in Zimbabwe, both the...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 06, 2017
Times of London didn’t ask company about internal investigation claim
The Times of London reported that the Glasgow City Council was accused of corruption and cronyism and that there was...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2017
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s lawsuit against AP thrown out
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska's libel lawsuit against the Associated Press was dismissed. Deripaska, the CEO of United Company RUSAL, sued...
by David W. Moore on Oct 17, 2017
Do nearly half of Republicans want war with North Korea?
A new Quinnipiac poll suggests that nearly half of all American adults who identify as Republicans support a preemptive strike...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 02, 2017
Canadian govt secret revealed: Will gay Chechens seeking to leave Russia now pay the price?
If it was a Canadian government secret, it's no longer secret now, thanks to the Globe & Mail. Will gay...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 27, 2017
Fake news gets China correspondent Oscar Garschagen fired by Dutch newspaper
Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad fired reporter Oscar Garschagen, a correspondent in China, because of "serious mistakes" following allegations of fake quotes and...