by Sydney Smith on Nov 27, 2018
Cancer Researcher can sue NYTimes over letter sent before publication
A New York Times' article about Ohio State University cancer researcher Dr. Carlo Croce, published in March 2017, prompted Croce to...
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by Sydney Smith on Nov 22, 2018
Not Discriminatory or Inaccurate to Report on story of Man ‘Abandoned’ as Baby
Wales Online's article about a man's reunion with his birth mother's family after DNA tests upset the woman's daughter, who...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 20, 2018
BuzzFeed adds guidelines for reporting on mass shootings
BuzzFeed now has ethics guidelines for covering mass shootings. The guidance was added to the BuzzFeed News Standards and Ethics...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 11, 2018
Corrections: Witches Hexing Tax Collectors, Graphics Errors, NPR corrections
Check out iMediaEthics' latest roundup of corrections: 1, NPR added a witchy correction about Romanian witches threatening to hex tax...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 10, 2018
OK to report on Child’s Death, IPSO says
It's not an invasion of privacy to report that someone died, even if the deceased is a child, the UK...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 08, 2018
Houston Chronicle: 122 Sources can’t be found, 8 Mike Ward stories retracted
The Houston Chronicle completed its review of former reporter Mike Ward's work. In it, the newspaper revealed that it couldn't...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 07, 2018
Sky News Australia axes host for calling Chinese ‘slanty-eyed, yellow-skinned’
Sky News Australia fired host Ross Cameron after he called Chinese people "black-haired, slanty-eyed [and] yellow-skinned," the Guardian reported. Cameron...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 04, 2018
NPR published fewer corrections in past 4 months, but still too many, Editor says
NPR standards editor Mark Memmott wanted NPR's corrections count to be cut down in half by last month, but the...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 02, 2018
2nd Newspaper Apologizes for ‘Field Guide to Liberals’ Cartoon
The Rochester Business Journal will no longer publish editorial cartoons after upsetting readers with an Oct. 19 cartoon, the Rochester...