by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2012
Organization of News Ombudsmen’s Annual Meeting this Week
The Organization of News Ombudsmen is having its annual conference this week in Copenhagen. The conference is from May 20...
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by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2012
Los Angeles Times Corrects Correction
The Los Angeles Times corrected a correction May 19. The Los Angeles Times originally published a correction on May 18 about its...
by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2012
Zambian Prez Sues Newspaper, Radio Station for Defamation
Zambia's president, Michael Sata, has called for a retraction of a May 16 Daily Nation story he called defamatory, Zambian...
by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2012
UK News Outlets Correct, Apologize, Pay for Wrong Al Qaeda Claims
Several UK news outlets apologized and corrected stories about an Algerian man named Farid Boukemiche, Tabloid Watch reported. The news outlets...
by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2012
Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, National Post Say they Won’t Pay for Celeb Interviews at Cannes Film Festival
Canadian journalists who wanted to interview celebrities like Brad Pitt, Kristen Stewart and Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival...
by Sydney Smith on May 20, 2012
Update on Police Subpoenas of Seattle Media Outlets for Unaired Protest Footage
As we wrote May 8, the Seattle police subpoenaed Seattle TV news KIRO-7 and five other news outlets (KOMO-4, KING-5...
by Sydney Smith on May 20, 2012
More Libel Claims against RTE for Mission to Prey Program
Kenyan bishop Philip Sulumeti is suing Irish public broadcaster RTE for its claims in the 2011 Prime Time Investigates "Mission...
by Sydney Smith on May 19, 2012
Australia’s The Age Defends 2010 Report on Political Database of Personal Info
The Age's editor-in-chief, Paul Ramadge, defended the newspaper's access of the "ALP electoral database in the lead-up to the 2010...
by Sydney Smith on May 19, 2012
National Review Corrects, Apologizes, Unpublishes Incorrect Plagiarism Story
National Review apologized, corrected and unpublished a story accusing Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of plagiarism, the Huffington Post reported....
by Sydney Smith on May 18, 2012
New Press Council in Burma to replace Censorship Board?
Myanmar will get a press council next month, Burmese "independent news media group" Irrawaddy reported. According to Burmese news site...