by Sydney Smith on May 02, 2015
Don’t Pose as Hospital Staff to Cover Kate Middleton & Royal Baby, Royal Prank DJ Mel Greig warns
Mel Greig, one of the two Australian radio hosts who prank-called King Edwards VII hospital in 2012 to try to...
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by Sydney Smith on Apr 29, 2015
UK Times Wrong to Publish 2006 Photo of Murder Suspect with Fmr Co-Worker
The Times of London invaded the privacy of a random woman when reporting on a a man charged with murder...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 28, 2015
UK Prison Documentary had Nudity, 78 Bleeped words, & F-Bomb, Must meet with Media regulator
Local Welsh TV channel Made in Cardiff crossed the line with British broadcast regulator OfCom, the regulator said in its...
by David W. Moore on Apr 28, 2015
Why Bloomberg’s Poll on Income Inequality is Misleading
What do Americans think of income inequality? In two recent polls, we get very different views of Americans’ views about...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 28, 2015
It’s Ethics Week: Minimize Harm, SPJ reminds
This week is Ethics Week for the Society of Professional Journalists. This year's theme is "Minimize Harm," the SPJ's ethics...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 27, 2015
Sex Tape Suicide Coverage gets 48 Slovenian Journalists in Trouble with Ethics Group
Almost 50 Slovenian journalists were slammed by the Association of Slovenian Journalists' ethics group for their reporting on a sex...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 24, 2015
Writer complains after Mail lifts his work, weirdly lists him on byline
The Daily Mail lifted work from a writer for Vice's Motherboard, but listed him in the byline for the article....
by Sydney Smith on Apr 23, 2015
California’s Daily Nexus Retracts Endorsement, Paper didn’t follow ‘appropriate’ endorsement process
The Daily Nexus, the student newspaper for the University of California, Santa Barbara, retracted an endorsement for a student election....
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2015
Sun Columnist Compares Migrants to Cockroaches, 250K complain on Change.org petition
Readers complained but the Sun has so far stood by columnist Katie Hopkins who recently compared African migrants to "cockroaches,'...