by Danielle Mastropiero on Apr 01, 2009
Reddit Ads Designed to Look Like Content
Do you remember thumbing through a newspaper and stumbling across an advertisement cleverly disguised to look like an article? Rest...
US Media Ethics News
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 31, 2009
Is Yelp Guilty of Removing Bad Reviews for Advertisers?
Although business review Web site Yelp may seem like a grassroots exchange of helpful information about businesses between Internet users,...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 30, 2009
CBS GREG GUMBEL’S TECHNICAL FOUL:
UPDATE 4/1/09 2:18 PM EST: One day following iMediaEthics' report, Greg Gumbel filed a lawsuit against infomercial producer Doug Scott in Florida....
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 27, 2009
Why Do NYC Crime Reports Leave out real purpose of Court Appearence
When iMediaEthics contacted attorney Joyce David for clarification of quotes she gave the New York Daily News and the New York...
by Danielle Elliot on Mar 26, 2009
Columbia J-School to Change Journalism Curriculum
The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University is considering major curriculum changes, according to InsideHigherEd.com. The school will likely...
by Danielle Elliot on Mar 10, 2009
Did KTVU Discover “Hydrogen Sulfide” Gas in Solid Form?
Reporters sometimes make it all too obvious that they haven’t done sufficient research before publishing a story. A routine web...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 04, 2009
New Orleans Times-Picayune Report Avoided Identifying Rapist as “Black Man”
News of a New Orleans college student abducted and raped at knife-point is jarring enough. But did the gaping hole in...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 27, 2009
Giant Snake Fauxtograph Busted:
What's a blogger to do when he or she suspects that a doctored photo is circulating the Internet? Take the...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 26, 2009
Media Abuse of Statistics?
Here’s an article that explains the media’s “use and abuse of statistics.” Rebecca Goldin, a mathematics professor at George Mason...