by Sydney Smith on Aug 27, 2011
CNN’s iReport Advises on Fact Checking, Sourcing
A recent report from CNN's "eight-week series about storytelling and reporting skills, iReport Boot Camp, focused on fact checking and sourcing....
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by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2011
New York Times Won’t Correct 2009 Rio Treaty Editorial, MediaBugs Says
MediaBugs wrote about former Outside magazine editor Hal Espen's attempts to get the New York Times to correct an error...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2011
NDakota Reporter Lee Morris Quits, Claims Newspaper Suppresses Critical Letters to the Editor
The editor, Lee Morris, wrote a "scathing column about concerns" with the newspaper, the Valley City Times-Record, in mid-August. His criticisms...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2011
Blogger Behind Fake Quotes Attributed to NYT Columnist Paul Krugman
Blogger Carlos Graterol of the Campaign Fix blog admitted recently that he was posing as New York Times columnist Paul...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2011
Dan Gillmor on Op-Eds:
Dan Gillmor criticized the media's willingness to publish op-eds that are ghost-written or essentially "public relations tactics" in a column...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 26, 2011
N.C. Court Dismisses Libel Lawsuit Against Indian TV News for Reporting ‘Rumors,’ Says No Jurisdiction
A North Carolina court dismissed a $12 million libel lawsuit against Indian TV networks Sun TV Network, CNN-IBN, New Delhi...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2011
Did Peruvian Journalists Break Prison Rules to get Interview?
Peru's National Penitentiary Institute head has questioned how Radio Capital and TV news program Primera Noticia got access to inmate Antauro...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2011
Daniel Domscheit-Berg: I ‘Shredded’ 3K+ WikiLeaks Documents
Former WikiLeaks staff member Daniel Domscheit-Berg claims he "'shredded' more than 3,500 unpublished documents" that WikiLeaks had obtained, NYMag reported. The admission...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2011
7th Righthaven Suit Dismissed
For the seventh time in nine weeks, a U.S. judge dismissed a case filed by Righthaven because the copyright company...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 25, 2011
No More ‘Fairness Doctrine’
The Federal Communications Commission axed "the Fairness Doctrine and 83 other 'outdated and obsolete media-related rules,'" Fox News reported. According...