by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2020
New Mexico sports reporter used ‘scalps’ in tweet
New Mexico Hobbs News-Sun sports reporter Jason Farmer apologized last week for a tweet using the word "scalps." The tweet...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2020
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...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2020
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...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2020
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...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2020
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...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 15, 2020
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....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 15, 2020
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...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 14, 2020
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...
by David W. Moore on Jan 14, 2020
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...