by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2015
Jon Stewart takes on Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story on Daily Show
Jon Stewart often takes the media to task for its bad reporting, but the Comedy Central host of the Daily...
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by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2015
Nate Silver to Vox: ‘Stop stealing’ FiveThirtyEight’s charts
Data journalist Nate Silver called out news site Vox for "stealing" charts from other outlets, including his own site, fivethirtyeight.com....
by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2015
Journalism Award Finalists Announced, ‘Mirror’ Winners announced in June
Syracuse University's Newhouse School announced the finalists for its annual Mirror Awards today. Finalists include journalists at Yahoo, Columbia Journalism...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 13, 2015
There was a warrant for Walter Scott, AP erred by saying no
Was there a warrant out for Walter Scott, the 50-year-old South Carolina man killed by North Charleston police officer Michael...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 10, 2015
Don’t say Germanwings Pilot Committed Suicide, NPR advises
National Public Radio advised its staff against using the word "suicide" to describe Germanwings pilot Andrea Lubitz, who crashed a...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 10, 2015
BuzzFeed reinstates unpublished critical story about Dove ad campaign
BuzzFeed unpublished and then re-instated a blogpost about Dove soap, a BuzzFeed advertiser. The article is now back on BuzzFeed's...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 07, 2015
‘Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music,’ MSNBC Guest Says
MSNBC had to apologize after a guest suggested country music makes people want to kill Muslims, Mediaite reported. The topic...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 07, 2015
Imus commentator said Apple’s Tim Cook is a ‘bigot,’ Fox Business Network apologizes
Is Apple's Tim Cook a "bigot" for his Washington Post column on Indiana's "religious freedom" law? A commentator on Don...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 07, 2015
Media Beat: Insider guides to Columbia J School’s Rolling Stone Report
This weekend, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism released its long-awaited investigation into the failures that led Rolling Stone to...