by Sydney Smith on Apr 07, 2012
NBC News Producer Fired in Investigation into Selectively Edited George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin 911 Call
An NBC News producer was fired April 5 as a result of the NBC News investigation into how an edited...
Anonymous Sources
by Sydney Smith on Mar 24, 2012
AP Names Govt Officials Who Asked to be Anonymous during Sunshine Week
The Associated Press ignored a White House request for anonymity, Yahoo News Dylan Stableford reported. According to Yahoo News, the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 24, 2012
News Orgs Back NYT’s James Risen’s Bid to Protect Anonymous Sources
"More than two dozen news organizations" have asked Virginia's U.S. district court in a "friend-of-the-court brief" to allow New York...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2012
UK Journalists Union Questions Anonymous Source Protection in News Corp Investigation
UK's National Union of Journalists argued that the UK arrests of journalists and searches of their homes is violating "press...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 06, 2012
Michele Bachmann Calls for the Boston Globe to Retract Story
U.S. congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed the Boston Globe's story "that speculated she'd be throwing her support behind Mitt Romney" during his...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 04, 2012
3 Anonymous Sources to be named for Australian Defamation Suit
An Australian Supreme Court called for three journalists from Australia's The Age newspaper to identify three anonymous sources in order...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 03, 2012
NYT Criticizes Reporters without Borders Annual Press Freedom Ranking of US below Hungary for Occupy Wall Street Arrests
Nonprofit advocacy group Reporters without Borders released its latest Press Freedom Index on Jan. 25. This is the "10th annual"...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2012
Blogger Crystal Cox must pay $2.5 Million Libel Fee in Oregon’s December Case
Blogger Crystal Cox was ordered to pay $2.5 million for a defamatory posting on her blog. The case brings up...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 19, 2011
Massachusetts Community Newspaper on Why it used Anonymous Sources
The editor of a Massachusetts community newspaper, the Gloucester Times, explained to readers in a Dec. 17 column why the...