ABC News reports Michael Slager sentencing before it happened
Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer who fatally shot the unarmed black motorist Walter Scott in the back…
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BBC News shows photos of wrong men in story on Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor’s death
When airing a news story on the death of a famous actor, it helps if you show pictures of the…
Leonard Lopate, Jonathan Schwartz on leave after ‘allegations of inappropriate conduct’
New York public radio station WNYC put two of its hosts, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz, on leave while it…
Iowa radio fires 2 after they called high school athletes ‘Espanol people’
Iowa radio station KIOW fired host Orin Harris and producer Holly Jane Kusserow-Smidt after they said some high school basketball…
How Gallup Found Conflicting Poll Results on Gun Control Laws
In November, Gallup reported that just a bare majority of Americans would rather the government approve new gun laws instead of only…
Mail Online Wrongly Reported 10-Day-Old Tweet as News
Tweets, like milk, should come with expiration dates. Case in point: The Mail Online wrongly claimed that a truck drove…
Fighting Fake News: 2 Canadian Public Editors Weigh In
In their recent columns, two Canadian public editors, Sylvia Stead of the Globe and Mail and Kathy English of the…
MSNBC’s Joy Reid admits her old Blogposts about Crist were ‘Insensitive, Tone Deaf & Dumb’
MSNBC host and political analyst Joy Reid apologized this weekend for her 2007 to 2009 blogposts about then-Florida governor Charlie…
NPR chief news editor out, CNN fires senior producer, Vice axes 3 after investigations
In recent weeks, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Garrison Keillor and Mark Halperin have all lost their jobs amidst sexual misconduct allegations.…
Brian Ross Suspended, ABC News Errs in Anonymously Sourced Trump, Flynn Report
ABC News inaccurately reported that Donald Trump, as a presidential candidate, asked Gen. Michael Flynn to contact the Russians. The…