by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2015
NPR isn’t BuzzFeed: No Labeling of Donald Trump Racist
BuzzFeed may have OK'ed its staff calling Donald Trump a lying racist, but National Public Radio won't be doing the...
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by Sydney Smith on Dec 26, 2015
iMediaEthics 10 Most Read Stories of 2015
Below, see the ten most read stories on iMediaEthics from 2015. 10 . The Post-Courier, a newspaper in Papua New...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 23, 2015
Washington Post Deletes Ted Cruz Children are ‘Political Props’ Cartoon
The Washington Post unpublished an editorial cartoon of presidential candidate Ted Cruz and his daughters. The cartoon, by Post editorial cartoonist Ann...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 22, 2015
Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune Fires Editor after NRA Editorial?
The Sentinel-Tribune fired editor Jan Larson McLaughlin, who had worked for the paper for more than three decades, after she let...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 21, 2015
Top 10 Political Reporting Errors of the Year
This year, there were so many glaring or entertaining corrections we had to divvy up our annual corrections lists in categories. Below...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 20, 2015
Public Editor: ‘Systemic Change’ needed at Times after Tashfeen Malik Social Media Error
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan called for "systemic change" after the newspaper wrongly reported that accused San Bernardino...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 17, 2015
NYTimes adds editor’s note to Tashfeen Malik Social Media Story
The New York Times added an editor's note today to its story "U.S. Visa Process Missed San Bernardino Wife's Online Zealotry" on...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 17, 2015
Harper’s Issues its First Retraction, Stephen Glass Faked at least 71% of ‘Prophets and Losses’
Seventeen years later, notorious fabricator Stephen Glass finally has fessed up to what he faked in his story for Harper's Magazine,...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 16, 2015
NYTimes: Photo of Muslim Teenager with Donald Trump on TV in Background wasn’t Staged or Faked
The New York Times says it didn't fake a photo showing a 15-year-old Muslim teenager doing her homework while Donald Trump was...
by David W. Moore on Dec 16, 2015
Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Donald Trump’s Polling Numbers
In a recent blogpost, Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist, suggested that Donald Trump’s “bubble” probably...