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UK Express corrects transgender claim after Star retraction
The UK Express corrected a three-year-old article in late January, a year after another news outlet retracted the same claims....
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DC Metro Theater Arts deletes review of ‘insensitive glorification of 19th-century Orientalism’
DC Metro Theater Arts, a performing arts website for Washington D.C., unpublished this summer a review of the play The Mikado after...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 12, 2018
Indigenous Report on Australia’s Channel Seven Broke Broadcast Rules
A program on Australia's Channel Seven suggested that a "'generation' of young Indigenous children [were] being abused." This disturbing pronouncement...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2018
Who will be next PBS public editor? Madhulika Sikka leaves for WashPost
The search for a new PBS ombudsman, or public editor, is on again. Madhulika Sikka, who had been in the role...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2018
Mail Online’s bogus Heimlich story finally gets correction
Earlier this year, the UK Mail Online claimed an Irish comedian performed the Heimlich maneuver on a fan who was...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 10, 2018
Houston Chronicle reporter resigns, paper can’t find sources
The Houston Chronicle cannot find sources from reporter Mike Ward's recent work, leading to Ward's resignation from the newspaper. Nancy...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 10, 2018
5 Questions New York Times’ anonymous OpEd raises
The New York Times' decision last week to publish an op-ed by an anonymous author has stirred considerable controversy and...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 09, 2018
Belfast Telegraph’s story on same-sex partnership not an invasion of privacy
It was OK for the Belfast Telegraph to report on the same-sex civil partnership of two women, even though the...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 08, 2018
Globe & Mail Opinion Article Needed more Transparency, public editor says
The Globe and Mail should have provided more transparency in describing a columnist's background and ties to the topic he...