Innocent of crime but convicted on the Web? Should news remove police reports?
Do news organizations need to adopt a new standard for publishing or removing online police reports? A recent Toronto Star…
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Statistics can unfairly create fear of Islam
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Chinese Journalist Zhang Hong fired for Critique of Government
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Sued for plagiarism? It can cost you money….
Everybody knows that plagiarism can get you fired from a job or expelled from a university, but less known is that plagiarism…
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Today is Robert Buckman's inaugural column on StinkyJournalism. Buckman,Ph,D., is an associate professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and…
Jeffrey Goldberg: ‘Atlantic’s Web site has no fact-checking standards’
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Are You Journalist Enough for Press Pass?
The perennial “new media” question of who is and who isn’t a journalist also includes: Who gets a press pass? Yes,…