by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
David Beckham’s Libel Suit Against In Touch Dismissed
As iMediaEthics has previously reported, soccer player David Beckham filed a $25 million lawsuit against In Touch and its parent...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
More ESPN Reporters Have Undisclosed Endorsement Deals
The New York Times reported that three ESPN personalities have endorsement contracts with Nike -- endorsement contracts that ESPN didn't...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
Maine Ethics Commission Rules– No Further Action Against Portland Press Herald
As iMediaEthics has previously reported, Maine newspaper the Portland Press Herald gave almost $47,000 worth of free advertising to a political...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
Cuba Bloggers see sites Unblocked
"More than 40" Cuban "dissent bloggers' websites" were unblocked, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reported. The unblocking...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
Portrait Photographer Drops Lawsuit Over Copyrighted Photo of Shooting Victim
A portrait photographer, Jon Wolf, dropped his lawsuit on Feb. 14 against "nearly three dozen media outlets" for using a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2011
Breitbart Sued by Shirley Sherrod for Libel, Video Edits
Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA official who was quickly fired last year after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart published an edited...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2011
Rwanda Journalists Imprisoned for Defamation, ‘Genocide Revisionism’
Reporters without Borders, Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists "slammed" a recent conviction and imprisonment given to two...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 14, 2011
Irish Tribune Calls for Irish Daily Mail Owner to be Kicked out of Newspaper Union
The Irish Mail on Sunday published a four-page wraparound of its newspaper with the masthead of another Irish newspaper, the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 14, 2011
Nigerian Journalists Must Make Tough Ethics Calls Before Publishing
Nigerian newspaper The Daily Independent published an analysis about "coping with the demands of responsive journalism." According to the Independent's...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 13, 2011
Twitter Ethics? Should Wrong Tweets Be Deleted or Corrected?
Should news organizations delete the inaccurate information? Or should they issue a correction tweet? iMediaEthics has written about this topic before...