by Sydney Smith on Jan 27, 2016
Melissa Click Charged with 3rd Degree Assault over Mizzou Protest
Melissa Click, the assistant professor at the University of Missouri's communications department who called for "muscle" during a November student...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 26, 2016
Who was Jack the Ripper? UK Mail on Sunday Corrects after Saying Serial Murderer was IDed ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’
Did the Mail on Sunday identify who the Victorian-era serial killer Jack the Ripper really was? Apparently not. The newspaper published a...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 25, 2016
New Press Regulator in England to get $5.5 million funding from Max Mosley’s Trust
UK print regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) may soon have some competition. The Independent Monitor for the Press...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 24, 2016
Local UK paper IDs ‘Caped Crusader’ on ‘Circumstantial Evidence,’ a ‘Serious Failure’ of Accuracy, says IPSO, UK regulator
Who was that masked man? A local UK newspaper thought it knew, but unleashed the UK regulator when it identified...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 23, 2016
“I live in a ‘terrorist house'” article unpublished by Guardian, under investigation by reader’s editor
The Guardian is reviewing an article that reported police investigated a young British Muslim boy after he wrote that he lived in a "terrorist...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 22, 2016
Associated Press Retracts: Steamship Car Ferry S.S. Badger not a National Historic Landmark
A steamship car ferry, the S.S. Badger, is not a national landmark, at least not yet, but the Associated Press...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 21, 2016
Kenyan Newspaper Fires Writer for Editorial Critical of President
Kenyan newspaper The Nation fired writer Denis Galava more than two weeks after his editorial critical of Kenya's president was published....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 20, 2016
Univision turned down El Chapo’s Prior Approval Requirement in 2013
Sean Penn wasn't the only person who had the chance to interview El Chapo. Univision's Gerardo Reyes, director of Univision's...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 19, 2016
Plagiarism in 3 Washington Post articles, 8 Paragraphs didn’t credit Government Executive
Three Washington Post articles by staffer Lisa Rein plagiarized from government news website Government Executive, the Post's Erik Wemple reported. Government...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 19, 2016
Mail Columnist Katie Hopkins’ tweet accuses Guardian Columnist of Vandalizing War Memorial, Sued for libel
Fresh off controversy for comparing migrants to cockroaches, Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins is now facing a libel lawsuit for accusing Guardian writer Jack...