by Katie Rolnick on Oct 31, 2009
Is October National Hoax Month?
Apparently, October is National Hoax Month -- or so it would seem, given the proliferation of fraudulent stories that appeared...
Media Business Ethics News
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 31, 2009
Old vs. New: The Poynter Kent State Ethics Workshop Looks at Emerging Media
Last month, at the fifth annual Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop, Poynter Institute colleagues discussed the role of traditional...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 28, 2009
Stephen J. A. Ward Goes Meta with Social Media Guidelines
Last week, we wrote about National Public Radio's recent release of social media guidelines, close on the heels of the...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 28, 2009
Yo! Columbia Journalism Grad Students Bring the Beat to Ethics, Rapping Ethics Guidelines
If you find the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics a dry read -- or simply prefer to have...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 27, 2009
Fact-Checking Media Matters’s claim: Fox & Friends’ Wrong On Two Polling Questions?
MediaMatters.org, a progressive website dedicated to correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, brought up two instances of bad poll...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 26, 2009
Former NY Times Reporter Linda Greenhouse Tells Young Journalists To Put Truth Before Facts
In the October 21 edition of the Cornell Daily Sun, reporter Dani Neuharth-Keusch gives a rundown of the previous day’s lecture on...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 25, 2009
NPR Joins the Pack of Media Outlets Issuing Social Media Guidelines
Last week National Public Radio joined ranks with the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and others by issuing social...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 19, 2009
Where Would Journalism Be Without Journalists? Atlantic Writer Mark Bowden Takes a Look
With the rise of 24-hour cable TV came the need for more and more content. But without the funds to...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 16, 2009
Las Vegas TV Station Accuses Competitors of Disguising Ads as News
During this summer's recession, while news outlets were struggling to make ends meet, three TV stations in Las Vegas might...