by Sydney Smith on Jun 15, 2012
Phone Hacking Lawyer Gets Libel Settlement from UK Police
The UK police are paying lawyer Mark Lewis a £230,000 libel settlement after the police "implied he lied to" a...
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by Sydney Smith on Jun 15, 2012
WPIX, NYDaily News Post Fake Video of Alleged Drake-Chris Brown Fight
The New York Daily News and New York TV news WPIX-11 published fake videos purporting to be of the alleged...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2012
BBC Defends Euro2012 Documentary Criticized for Bias, Sensationalism
Ukraine's UK ambassador Volodymyr Khandogiy called a BBC program on Ukraine "biased and unfair," the Guardian reported. The program, Panorama, aired...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2012
UK Supreme Court Dismisses Julian Assange Extradition Appeal
Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden for questioning, CNN reported. As we wrote earlier this week, Assange appealed a...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2012
WaPo Updates on Oliver North Plagiarism Claims
We wrote earlier this month about accusations of plagiarism against a column written by Fox News' Oliver North. North had quoted...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2012
$13.7 Mill Libel Payment for Anonymous Comments Rejected
We wrote earlier this year when a jury awarded a Texas couple $13.7 million in a libel lawsuit against online...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2012
WSJ Reporter Resigns, Broke Conduct Code, Showed Stories pre-publication
Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon resigned for "sharing certain unpublished news articles with Brett McGurk, then a member of...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 13, 2012
iMediaEthics Wins 1st Mirror Award for Photojournalism Ethics Report
iMediaEthics' Dec. 27, 2011 story "Troubling Double Standard, American photojournalism's different treatment of foreign victims" was awarded the Mirror Award...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 13, 2012
Readers Editor: Guardian ‘should not have distributed’ Pro-Sri Lanka Supplement
The Guardian didn't intentionally place a promotional supplement on Sri Lanka next to an article critical of Sri Lanka, but...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 12, 2012
California’s Beachcomber Advertorials are Disclosed
The (Long Beach) Beachcomber is selling advertorials, LA Observed reported. According to the "pitch" from their "advertising rep," republished by...