by Sydney Smith on Sep 23, 2013
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Didn’t Buy Pricey San Francisco Home, HuffPost Deletes Story
Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer busted the Huffington Post for phony reporting on her, Poynter reported. According to an editor's note...
Errors
by Sydney Smith on Sep 18, 2013
3 Media Missteps in Navy Yard Shootings Reporting
The Sept. 16 Navy Yard shooting in Washington D.C., produced a flurry of media missteps, misidentifications, and photojournalism errors. CBS...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 15, 2013
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer’s 2013 Traffic Jam Story From 2010; Daily Beast, ABC Corrects
ABC News' Diane Sawyer corrected a Sept. 5, 2013 report about a traffic jam in China because the story was...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 10, 2013
People Mag Publishes Pic of Wrong Woman Reportedly Dating Google’s Sergey Brin
People magazine misidentified a random woman as Google employee Amanda Rosenberg, Gawker-owned Silicon Valley blog Valleywag reported. Since late August,...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 17, 2013
CNBC Corrects: George Soros Didn’t Sell JC Penney Stock [VIDEO]
CNBC incorrectly reported on air and on Twitter that billionaire George Soros sold all of his stock in J.C. Penney...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 06, 2013
Bloomberg Axes Editor for Fabrice Tourre Verdict Error
John Pickering was fired as an editor for Bloomberg News after he got the verdict wrong in a headline for a...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 03, 2013
Forbes Writer who Wrongly Called Irish President Homosexual Resigns
David Monagan quit Forbes after wrongly reporting that Ireland's president Michael D. Higgins is an "acknowledged homosexual." As iMediaEthics previously...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 29, 2013
Denver KDVR-TV’s Hoaxed, Gun Company Founder NOT a Terrorist, He’s Dead
Back in May, a Denver TV news station aired a fake story after being hoaxed by a source, Media Bistro's...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 28, 2013
4 Women Won Wimbledon Since 1936, Times of London Corrects Error
The Times of London corrected its July 8 headline, "Murray ends 77-year wait for British win," after a complaint to...