by Sydney Smith on Feb 11, 2011
UK PCC Rules Publication of Civil Servant’s Public Tweets OK
The UK Press Complaints Commission backed two newspapers' decisions to publish public tweets from a public Twitter account, Journalism.co.uk reported....
Sci/Tech/Health Journalism Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2011
Washington Post’s Anonymous Sources Criticized by Reader
Reader John Burpo of Springfield, Va. criticized the Washington Post's anonymous sources reliance in its Feb. 1 story on health care. In...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 02, 2011
New York Times Updates: LED Smiles NOT a Trend
The New York Times, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Toronto Star, and many other news outlets all reported about a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 02, 2011
MSNBC Rachel Maddow Hoaxed by Satire Site ChristWire.org
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was recently duped by an Internet satire website. That is, The Rachel Maddow Show reported information from...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2011
Dallas Morning News Defends Hospital Medicare Test Fail Story
A Dallas Morning News editor responded to criticism by a local doctor, Dr. Ron Anderson, over one of the newspaper's stories. ...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 15, 2011
Do Media Regret Twitter Errors? How To Correct Tweets
News outlets typically issue corrections whenever they publish incorrect information. However, as more and more news outlets venture onto Twitter...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 05, 2011
Photos Don’t Lose Copyright After Being Posted on Twitter
A United States court ruled that "publishing something on Twitter is not the same as relinquishing ownership," Time.com reported. The...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 22, 2010
Mashable Predicts 2011 News Media Trends
Mashable's Vadim Lavrusik proposed his ten "predictions for the news media" for the coming year in a Dec. 20 blogpost....
by Sydney Smith on Nov 24, 2010
UK Express Publishes Story Based on Fake Twitter Account for Sophie Dahl
The UK Daily Express published an article based on a fake Twitter account, Regret the Error reported. The May 24...