Nat Geo Calls out Photographer William Lascelles for Submitting Fake Photo to Contest
In its June 2010 issue, National Geographic published a column calling out photographer William Lascelles for submitting altered photographs to…
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Irish Film Institute Discovers News Photo Really War Film Still
The Irish Film Institute has discovered that a long-used news photo is not a documentation of a 1920 event, but…
AP Reports Their Fact Checking Stories as the Most Clicked, Most Linked
Greg Sargent blogged on The Washington Post’s Plum Line May 19 about the Associated Press’s “strong fact-checking work.” Sargent reported that…
Journalists Question the Ethics of Sarah Ferguson Sting
When News of the World caught Sarah Ferguson on camera accepting money from "fake sheikh" Mazher Mahmoud for access to her ex-husband,…
Las Vegas Review-Journal Sues Websites for Reposting Its Articles
RGJ.com reported May 30 that the Las Vegas Review-Journal is suing Web sites that have copied Review-Journal stories on to…
Herald de Paris calls Gawker out for plagiarism, no transparency
News website Herald de Paris is calling gossip Web site Gawker out for plagiarism. Gawker’s reaction? According to Herald de…
Wyoming Judge Issues, then Lifts Restraining Order Against Newspapers
A Wyoming judge lifted May 25 a temporary restraining order keeping two newspapers from publishing stories on a community college…
Should Anonymous Commenters Be Treated Like Sources By News Sites?
One important change made when Great Britain's The Times and Sunday Times re-launched their Web sites May 25 was the…
Eyeball editing: Print media’s overuse of spell-checker creates howlers
Robert Buckman's Faux Pas Files column highlights common spelling errors in headlines, subheds, and cutlines. As promised, after castigating my…
Free Press Launches MediaFail Web site, user-generated examples of bad media
The New York Times’s Media Decoder blog reported May 24 that the nonprofit organization Free Press “has built a Digglike…