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2 Serbian news outlets criticized for rape reporting

Serbian newspapers the Informer and Srpski Telegraf published "graphic front-page tabloid accounts" of a child's rape and the suspect, the…

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Why NPR said Soleimani was assassinated not killed

NPR public editor Elizabeth Jensen reviewed reader and listener questions and complaints about NPR's coverage of the killing of Iranian…

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Media Ethics Debates from 2010-2019

Editor's note: This list is not ranked, but an overview of major ethical issues and trends iMediaEthics observed and closely…

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Fake New York Post reporter Twitter account posted Iranian propaganda

A fake Twitter account purporting to be New York Post reporter Mark Moore shared pro-Iran propaganda. Now, that account has…

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Toronto Star’s decade of corrections

Toronto Star public editor Kathy English reviewed in a recent column the past decade of corrections from the Canadian newspaper.…

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NYT: Obit was wrong, real estate broker fabricated background info

The New York Times revealed that its 2018 obituary of real estate broker Faith Hope Consolo contained errors because Consolo…

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Newspaper publishes obit for football player who is still alive

Another newspaper has "killed" someone off. In this case, the Southern Daily Echo, which is in Southampton, England, reported that…

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12th Annual Dubious Polling Awards

Editor’s note: Every January, iMediaEthics’ polling director David W. Moore assembles the top ten “Dubious Polling” Awards for iMediaEthics. The…

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Radio New Zealand’s Tonga PM story not balanced

Radio New Zealand broke press guidelines with an unbalanced article about Tonga's Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva, the New Zealand Media…

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Corrections: Butterflies, Love Island, Wrong Man, Finland’s Four Day Work Week?

iMediaEthics' latest roundup of amusing or noteworthy media corrections: 1.No, don't pack your bags. Finland doesn't have a four-day work…

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