by Sydney Smith on Oct 20, 2011
Daily Mail & Daily Mirror Accused of Contempt in Milly Dowler Reporting
UK attorney general Dominic Grieve charged the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror with contempt of court, the Guardian reported....
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by Sydney Smith on Oct 20, 2011
Daily Mail Paying Roger Moore’s Wife for false Affair Accusations
The Daily Mail will pay Roger Moore's wife, Lady Moore, "substantial damages" for its Oct. 8, 2010 article claiming that...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 20, 2011
PCC Gets New Chairman
The PCC announced Oct. 13 that a former member of Parliament, Lord David Hunt, has been named the print regulatory...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2011
“Where did Salon’s Corrections Go?”
Regret the Error's Craig Silverman questioned Oct. 11 what happened to Salon's corrections page. The page used to collect all...
by Ian Hislop , Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2011
UK Editor Defends Undercover Reporting
Ian Hislop, editor of UK Private Eye backed undercover reporting and investigating the "sex lives of well-known figures," the Guardian...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2011
Fake NY Daily News reporters at Occupy Wall Street Protests
Two men who were at the Occupy Wall Street protest on Oct. 8 posed as New York Daily News reporters,...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2011
POLITICO Reporter Kendra Marr Resigns After Plagiarism
POLITICO's national political reporter Kendra Marr resigned after editors learned that she had plagiarized, POLITICO revealed in an Oct. 13 post. According...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2011
Kansas City Star: Does Criminal Past Matter for Sourcing?
Kansas City Star readers representative Derek Donovan questioned in a recent column if journalists should look into a source's criminal...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 18, 2011
Social Media Best Practices
The Poynter Institute's Jeff Sonderman advised about how to manage social media accounts. One of his seven suggestions called for...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 18, 2011
Petition Calls for Transparency from the NYTimes
The Guardian's Roy Greenslade highlighted a petition for the New York Times to be more transparent about the "experts" it...