by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2014
NYT used one image from ‘despicable’ Steven Sotloff beheading video, Revealed he was Jewish
The New York Times only used one image of terrorist group ISIS's video showing the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff,...
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by Sydney Smith on Aug 29, 2014
Public Editor: New Yorker Mag said NYT Reporting on Plagiarism was ‘political attack’
Accusations of plagiarism against author Rick Perlstein were "a political attack ... dressed up as a journalistic ethics controversy," the...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2014
Calling Michael Brown ‘No Angel’ a ‘Blunder,’ NYTimes public editor says
It was "regrettable" that the New York Times called Michael Brown, the 18-year-old killed by a police officer in Ferguson,...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 22, 2014
MH17 Crash: NYT defends front-page photo of dead body
The New York Times received numerous complaints over its front page photo of a Malaysian crash victim with a plastic...
by Sydney Smith on May 14, 2014
NYT Public Editor gets Joe Nocera to apologize for Warren Buffett error
Another score for the role of the public editor in holding the media accountable? Last week, New York Times public...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2014
No credit to WSJ in Medicare story, NYT says ‘It was an oversight’
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan called out the paper for failing to credit the Wall Street Journal in...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 02, 2014
NYT AnonyWatch: Five Noteworthy Anonymous Source Quotes
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan filed her second installment of AnonyWatch, her new way to track the misuse...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 23, 2014
Gov. Cuomo ‘doesn’t really have friends,’ says Anonymous NYT Source, Public Editor starts AnonyWatch
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan is now tracking "some of the more regrettable examples of anonymous quotations" used...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 13, 2014
Why didn’t NYT Credit NJ Record for Bridgegate E-mails? ‘Would have been a generous gesture,’ NYT public editor says
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan addressed complaints about the Bridgegate e-mails controversy, specifically that the paper didn't credit the Bergen...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 07, 2014
10 Times: NYT, ABC News Misled Readers About Robert Levinson Being CIA, Why?
Last month, the Associated Press reported that Robert Levinson, an American man who went missing in Iran in March 2007,...