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NPR Releases Photo Caption Guidelines

What standards does National Public Radio hold its photo captions to? Homepage editor Stephanie Federico laid out its guidelines for...

A BuzzFeed UK advertorial (also known as native advertising and sponsored content) for the company Dylon was deceptive and readers...

Actor Sean Penn interviewed Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo, aka Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, for Rolling Stone magazine. And El...

The UK Crown Prosecution Service said it was done investigating phone hacking at News Corp.- and Trinity Mirror-owned newspapers last...

The UK Mirror published a story about a man's blisters from a spider bite that was based entirely on his...

BuzzFeed went online, found something nasty happening to a random person, and then told everyone about it. This is news?...

Australia's WA Today wrongly said a local Catholic school teacher was fired after controversial photos of her surfaced. But, it turns out...

The Globe and Mail published "around 40" corrections each month in 2015, public editor Sylvia Stead reported. That is "down...

Below, see iMediaEthics' round-up of the top ten cases of fabrication, hoaxes and pranks on the media in 2015. ...