Checkbook Journalism or Pay-for-Play Journalism

ABC News Pays for Anthony Weiner Materials

Media Bistro's TV Newser reported that ABC News "licensed a handful of photos" from a woman who allegedly had an...

Columbia Journalism Review recently featured an essay by Gawker's John Cook questioning why journalism ethics advises against paying for sources. ...

An attorney for Gaby Rodriguez, the Washington teenager who hoaxed her own pregnancy for six months as part of a...

What's ethically worse in the "Botox Mom" hoax story? The fact that news outlets like ABC News and the UK...

Tom Kummer, a journalist who fabricated stories and "exclusives" with celebrities for German magazines, is starring in a movie about...

An Indian political party has offered journalists free computers, the Associated Press reported. The group, Congress party, made the offer to...

At a recent seminar, the Press Council of India called paid news "dangerous for the survival of democracy," Economic Times reported....

Last month, the U.S. State Department paid for Liberian journalists to be trained by an American journalist, apparently a "regular...

NBC News and ABC News paid licensing fees for footage used in their "exclusive" reports on the recently rescued Chilean miners,...