NBC-affiliate reporter tweets N-word in direct message to source, resigns
Valerie Hoff, a news reporter and anchor for Atlanta NBC-affiliate WXIA 11Alive, used the N-word in a Twitter direct message…
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Boston Globe deletes ‘Flippant’ Tweet about AP ’White-Power Groups’ and Trump-Era Story
A Boston Globe April 30 tweet -- "Can white-power groups get past old differences and build lasting alliances?" -- was accompanied with…
Sunday Mail Australia’s ‘Knockers Come Out’ Headline about Trump Accusers Runs afoul of Press Council
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Sun’s MacKenzie says if he knew soccer star Barkley was of African descent, he wouldn’t have compared him to gorilla
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Actress Rebel Wilson suing Australian media company for saying she lied
Australian publisher Bauer Media damaged Australian actress Rebel Wilson's reputation, describing her as a liar, fibbing about her age, name and…
‘Islamic extremist rapper’ wants Queen beheaded? Sun & Mail unpublish
Without contacting him before publication, The Mail Online and the Sun both reported that Robert Boaler is an "Islamic extremist…
Welsh Editor in legal trouble, accused of IDing UK ‘Peeping Tom’ Victim
Welsh newspaper the Ceredigion Herald published a news story about a "peeping tom" and now the editor, Thomas Sinclair, is…
Exclusive: 14 missing sources in Kevin Deutsch’s crime reporting for Newsday, NY Daily News, NYT, & Newsweek
Exclusive: When iMediaEthics last reported on Kevin Deutsch, eight sources had gone missing from the veteran crime reporter’s stories. Since…
HuffPost hits delete for blogpost ‘Trump Supporters deserve to die more than I do’
"Trump supporters deserve to die more than I do." That was the Trump supporter-hating headline of a HuffPost blogpost. Free Beacon…