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Freelancer fired for tweets, said German broadcaster ‘whitewashed’ Tiananmen Square

German international public broadcaster Deutsche Welle fired blogger Su Yutong for tweeting about "internal issues" including a claim that the…

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Sons weren’t near dead teen Kendrick Johnson, Parents sue Ebony Mag

Ebony magazine is facing a $5 million libel lawsuit over 2013 reports by Frederic Rosen about the death of 17-year-old…

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NYT Named Teen Sexual Abuse Victims Who Wanted Stories Told

Readers questioned why the New York Times named and photographed sexual abuse victims in an Aug. 23 story about accusations of…

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#IceBucketChallenge: Fake News story says ALS Assoc. not using donations for research?

The ALS Association isn't ripping off its countless new donors, the association said this weekend in response to a fake…

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Architect Zaha Hadid accused of ‘no concern’ for dead laborers when construction never began, sues NY Review of Books

The New York Review of Books wrongly claimed architect Zaha Hadid had "no concern" for construction workers killed working on…

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Public Editor: New Yorker Mag said NYT Reporting on Plagiarism was ‘political attack’

Accusations of plagiarism against author Rick Perlstein were "a political attack ... dressed up as a journalistic ethics controversy," the…

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Sorry we said your son had ‘heroin Dependency,’ PCC complaint gets apology

Oops? The Middlesborough Evening Gazette wrongly reported a man who died in March was hooked on heroin.  The Gazette article…

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Fox News criticized for conflating Muslims, ISIS in James Foley report, AAJA wants apology

The Asian American Journalists Association called for Fox News to apologize after host Andrea Tantaros' comments about ISIS, Muslims and…

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Did Newspaper Fake Quote? Sexual Assault Victim Wrongly IDed

UK newspaper The Kentish Gazette provided enough information about a sexual assault victim that readers could identify her. The newspaper's…

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‘No content has been Deleted,’ Patch explains why stories have gone missing

Did hyperlocal news site Patch delete a mass amount of stories? That's how it appeared when David Rotenstein, a historian…

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