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Daily Mail will pay Libel Settlement for Claiming Striped House Owner was Stingy with Husband’s Inheritance

The Daily Mail wrongly claimed a woman named Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring "mistreated" and was stingy toward her late husband's family. As a result…

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Laurie Fine’s Libel Lawsuit against ESPN Dismissed

Laurie Fine's lawsuit against ESPN was dismissed. Fine, the wife of former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, sued ESPN…

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Associated Press Rescued Slave Labor Sources, Wins Ethics Award

The Associated Press went above and beyond ethically when it reported on slave labor being used on the island Benjina, the…

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Trinity Mirror Must Pay £1.2 Hacking Verdict, Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Attempt

Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the UK Mirror and other outlets, still has to pay £1.2 million in damages to eight…

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Fired CBC Host Jian Ghomeshi Found Not Guilty of Sexual Assault, Choking Charges

Jian Ghomeshi, who was fired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 2014, was found not guilty of sexual assault and…

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How to Report on Children: New Advice from Ghana

Journalists in Ghana have a new code of ethics to help them with reporting on children. The code, "Making the…

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Hulk Hogan awarded $25 Million in Punitive Damages from Gawker

Last week, a Florida jury awarded former wrestler Hulk Hogan $115 million over Gawker's 2012 publication of an excerpt of…

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Hindi TV News Shouldn’t have Shown ISIS Torture, Murder Videos, UK Regulator Says

Hindi TV news channel Aaj Tak broke broadcast standards when it showed "graphic images of beheadings and torture of prisoners"…

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Why the Recent NBC/WSJ Poll on the SCOTUS Nomination Misleads: Message Testing as “Public Opinion”

A recent poll, conducted March 3-6, 2016, by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal shows how misleading is the…

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Singapore blogger must pay Prime Minister $109K over 17 years for Libel Verdict

Singapore blogger Roy Ngerng must pay $109,000 U.S. over 17 years to his country's prime minister Lee Hsieng Loong as…

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