by Sydney Smith on Oct 25, 2019
Australian newspaper broke press guidelines with ‘violent Islam’ headline
The Australian newspaper shouldn't have used the phrase "Violent Islam" in a headline about a car attack in Melbourne, Australia...
Reporting on religion
by Sydney Smith on Mar 26, 2019
New Zealand mosque attacks: Globe & Mail ‘understated’ in print edition, Toronto Star needs terrorism guidelines
Days after the Christchurch, New Zealand mosques terrorism attacks, public editors for both the Globe and Mail and the Toronto...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 01, 2019
Guidance for Reporting on Islam, Muslims in the works
UK press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation will create new guidance for journalists on reporting on Islam and Muslims...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 28, 2017
Why did Daily Caller post & then delete Glenn Thrush Chutzpah Video?
The conservative news site The Daily Caller published -- and then, after being accused of anti-semitism, deleted -- a video...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 05, 2017
Breitbart fires journalist Katie McHugh after her racist tweets about London terrorism attacks
Breitbart fired writer Katie McHugh after she posted offensive tweets following the London attack this past weekend. "Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex...
by Sydney Smith on May 14, 2017
Why did National Post rewrite, republish Op-Ed about Trevor Noah, Islamic Relief Event?
Canada's National Post published an op-ed accusing Comedy Central's Trevor Noah of attending an event "supporting Islamist intolerance." The site...
by Sydney Smith on May 06, 2017
AU Telegraph depicted Sunni leader as monkey blind to terrorism, AU Grand Mufti wins libel settlement
Dr. Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, the Grand Mufti and head Sunni Muslim religious authority in Australia, sued for libel after being...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 04, 2017
Muslim Leader never called for Rushdie lynching, BBC pays ‘substantial libel damages’
Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin never advocated for author Salman Rushdie to be lynched. Because the BBC's Radio 5 Live Breakfast show...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2017
Muslim Council rep Fact-Checks Media for Errors in Reporting on Islam
Miqdaad Versi has gotten British news outlets to correct more than a dozen errors in reporting on Muslims in the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 11, 2017
Allahu Akbar or Not? News Outlets Retract after False Terror Claim
Did you hear about the man who opened fire in a Spanish supermarket screaming "Allahu Akbar"? If you did, you...