by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2017
Monica Crowley not going to White House, doesn’t comment on plagiarism accusations
After more than a week of silence in the face of numerous plagiarism accusations, Monica Crowley spoke out Monday --...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 10, 2017
Why BuzzFeed published Unverified Trump Intel Dossier (And Why Others Didn’t)
Everyone is abuzz after BuzzFeed published an unverified document alleging to be a round-up of Donald Trump intel memos. BuzzFeed...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 09, 2017
Monica Crowley Plagiarism Scandal: What Happened
In the wake of her appointment as the senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council under Donald...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 14, 2016
Julia Ioffe Apologizes for Donald, Ivanka Trump Tweet, Politico ends contract early
Politico ended its contract with Julia Ioffe early after she tweeted that "either [Donald] Trump is f***ing his daughter or...
by on Dec 13, 2016
iMediaEthics’ 5 Most Read Polling Articles from 2016
David W. Moore, iMediaEthics' polling director, has written frequently throughout 2016 about polling issues, polling standards and problematic polls. Given...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 10, 2016
Russian Propaganda & Fake News Article in Washington Post gets correction & editor’s note
Two weeks after publication, the Washington Post added a nearly 150-word editor's note to an article claiming "a sophisticated Russian...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 08, 2016
NPR: There’s No ‘Political Litmus Test’ for Live Interviews
Elizabeth Jensen, the National Public Radio ombudsman, weighed in last month on two interviews that aired over the network-- one...
by David W. Moore on Nov 30, 2016
Poll Discrepancies as Justification for Vote Recount
Part of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s justification for a vote recount in Pennsylvania is the “discontinuity between pre-election...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 30, 2016
Ivanka Trump would Mace Donald Trump? Quote is a Conan O’Brien Joke, not a real Ivanka Trump Quote
Fake news has been a major topic of discussion this month. Despite the significant attention devoted to the problem of...