Australian Freelancer Tara Kenny Says Faking Fashion Profiles OK Because It’s not Hard News
Australia's The Age, a Melbourne-based daily newspaper, fired freelancer Tara Kenny after learning she faked features for a style column called…
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Why SoCal Paper Desert Sun Published Photos of Dead Undocumented Immigrants
The Desert Sun published photos of dozens of dead bodies, likely undocumented immigrants, on its website. But, the graphic photos…
Kansas City Star Apologizes for Rape Op-Ed that ‘Should Never Have Been Published’
The Kansas City Star deleted a column suggesting if women are raped while drunk, it's their own fault. Laura Herrick's controversial…
John Gorman’s Dallas Shooting Tweets Get him Cut from Sports Illustrated’s The Cauldron
Sports Illustrated's sports site The Cauldron won't use freelancer John Gorman anymore after his tweets on the Dallas shooting. In them,…
Dallas Police Shootings: To Get Breaking News Right, NPR Corrects When Facts Are Wrong
News outlets that get it wrong often simply update stories without a correction. Breaking news stories are particularly fertile ground for…
Clinton-Trump Matchup: Conflicting Polls from USA Today and Reuters
On July 5, two different media organizations announced contradictory trends in the presidential election contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald…
Examiner.com Closing Next Week, 2 iMediaEthics Investigations Found Fact Check Fails
Online journalism platform Examiner.com is closing effective July 10th, San Francisco CBS-affiliate KPIX reported. The news was announced to Examiner.com…
Irish Newspaper Pays Bank of Ireland Employee, Apologizes for Suggesting he was Inside Man in Bank Heist
The Sunday World is paying a Bank of Ireland employee after suggesting he was involved as the inside man in a…
Examiner.com burned by reporter’s 3 wildfire fundraiser stories, YouCaring deletes $10K campaign
Multiple stories were unpublished from Examiner.com, following a three month long iMediaEthics investigation. This is the second time in 2016…
Mitchell Goldhar’s Defamation Lawsuit against Haaretz ‘Not Case of Libel Tourism,’ Canadian Court Rules
A recent lawsuit ruling in Canada over a story about a soccer team in Israel raises the issue of libel tourism,…