by Sydney Smith on Feb 10, 2011
Sri Lanka Profs Criticize Claim of Media Suppression
Media professors and practitioners criticized Sri Lankan media for "attempting to create an opinion that there is a media suppression...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 10, 2011
IFJ: Please no more Censors, Fiji
The International Federation of Journalists and the Pacific Freedom Forum called for the "Fiji military regime" to stop censoring the media. According...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 10, 2011
US State Department Hires Journalism Prof Jane Kirtley to Write Ethics Book for Foreign Diplomats?
University of Minnesota media ethics professor Jane Kirtley was "commissioned" by the U.S. State Department to write a handbook for...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 09, 2011
Reuters Not Corrected Katie Couric MisTweet that Mubarak Resigned
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric incorrectly tweeted that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigned, the New York Daily News reported....
by Sydney Smith on Feb 09, 2011
Journalist Carmen Aristegui Fired After Reporting Mex Prez May Be Alcoholic, Rumor
Mexican radio journalist Carmen Aristegui was fired this week after she reportedly breached an ethics code, Fox News Latino reported....
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2011
Washington Post’s Anonymous Sources Criticized by Reader
Reader John Burpo of Springfield, Va. criticized the Washington Post's anonymous sources reliance in its Feb. 1 story on health care. In...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2011
AGAIN? LA Times Ran Wrong Photo of Composer John Barry, 1991, 2011
The Los Angeles Times readers' representative, Deirdre Edgar, reported that the LA Times corrected a mislabeled photo this month. The...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2011
“Not Everyone Sad” about Minnesota News Council Closing
As iMediaEthics reported in late January, the Minnesota News Council -- one of two state news councils in the U.S. -- has...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2011
SF Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein On Lawsuit Against Student Newspaper Editor
The San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Bronstein blogged for the Huffington Post that the lawsuit of a California man against a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2011
Doctored Photo Leads to Four Arrests
Four people have been arrested "in connection with the circulation on the Internet of manipulated pictures meant to disparage" Tanzanian...