by Sydney Smith on Apr 24, 2015
PBS Apologizes for Not Reporting Ben Affleck Slave-Owning Ancestor or Request
Two PBS executive producers -- Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Dyllan McGee apologized for agreeing to ignore the fact...
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by Sydney Smith on Apr 23, 2015
HBO on Trial for Defamation over 2008 Child Labor report
HBO is being sued for libel over a 2008 report that claimed British sporting goods company Mitre Sports International used...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 23, 2015
California’s Daily Nexus Retracts Endorsement, Paper didn’t follow ‘appropriate’ endorsement process
The Daily Nexus, the student newspaper for the University of California, Santa Barbara, retracted an endorsement for a student election....
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2015
UK Mail Unpublishes Old Photo used with 2015 ISIS story
The UK Daily Mail used a photo dating back to at least 2014, showing three masked, apparent militants pointing guns...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2015
Sky News, UK outlets cleared on Charlie Hebdo coverage
It was OK for Sky News to show a video of the murder of a police officer earlier this year,...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2015
Sun Columnist Compares Migrants to Cockroaches, 250K complain on Change.org petition
Readers complained but the Sun has so far stood by columnist Katie Hopkins who recently compared African migrants to "cockroaches,'...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2015
PBS Investigating Ben Affleck Slave-owning Ancestor Episode after Sony e-mails posted on Wikileaks
U.S. public broadcaster PBS is investigating its producers' agreement to not report that an ancestor of actor Ben Affleck owned...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 21, 2015
BuzzFeed Deleted 3 Posts because of Advertisers, New Review Finds
BuzzFeed admitted this weekend that it unpublished three stories for advertising reasons, Gawker reported. Earlier this month, BuzzFeed stirred up...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 20, 2015
Why did South African Newspaper Quit Press Council? Hires Public Editor instead?
The New Age, a newspaper in South Africa, announced last month it is getting a public editor, according to News...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 20, 2015
NPR Latino USA episode on ‘Chuy’ Garcia candidate failed standards, NPR says
Listeners complained and NPR agreed about claims of bias in a Latino USA's episode broadcast on NPR. The then-Chicago mayoral...