TPM recently called out dozens of media outlets for continuing an unsubstantiated story that Umar Abdulmutallab--the man who allegedly tried...
We’ve talked before on iMediaEthics about the role of ombudsmen. As “readers editors,” ombudsmen are the switchboard for reader criticism and...
In the early hours after the devastating Haiti earthquake last week, there was precious little news of the situation on...
Though CNN has been otherwise praised for its coverage of last week’s earthquake in Haiti, some coverage of the disaster,...
Student reporters working in Northwestern University’s Medill Innocence project received a show of support January 11 from a group of...
As if the financial and professional climate for journalists wasn’t dire enough, they could soon face some new competition… from machines....
iMediaEthics has written before on correcting stories, retracting them, or in the online world, sometimes making them disappear. But it is also...
Andrew Breitbart, the publisher and commentator behind Breitbart.com and BigHollywood, launched his new site BigJournalism yesterday. In an interview with...
A quick note for climate reporters and interested bloggers working in the Northern Hemisphere this winter: Just because it’s snowing...
A recent ABC News broadcast offers a stark example of how bad the problem of false balance in science reporting...