Checkbook Journalism or Pay-for-Play Journalism

Globe & Mail paid $10K for Rob Ford pipe pictures

Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail paid a "self-professed drug dealer" for images of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking what...

NBC News is paying Reeva Steenkamp's family "a very modest licensing fee," the Washington Post's Paul Farhi reported. Steenkamp was...

"Ethics and social responsibility should be the watchword of every journalist," longtime Indian journalist B G Verghese said last week...

The Toronto Star's public editor Kathy English defended the Star's payment of $5,000 for a video of an intoxicated Rob...

NBC News "licensed" a video for news reports -- meaning it coughed up cash for rights to a video, and...

The Toronto Star paid $5,000 for a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford drunkenly screaming that he was going to...

Over the past month, Toronto mayor Rob Ford's use of drugs and alcohol has been back in the news as...

The Toronto Star paid a source an undisclosed amount of money for a video of a Toronto mayor Rob Ford,...

Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles filed a libel lawsuit against the UK Sun for its reporting earlier this year that his...