Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Austrian Newspaper Apologizes for Fake Syria Photo

VIENNA, Austria -- Austrian newspaper publisher Christoph Dichand apologized after Kronen Zeitung was caught using a faked dramatic photograph of...

The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at Penn State University, apologized and suspended a student writer after he fabricated quotes...

The Daily Mail apologized and paid Nicolas Cage "undisclosed damages" in a libel settlement over a September story claiming he...

A fake story claiming "Ben Roethlisberger has broken both of his legs in a traffic altercation," circulated this week, Deadspin...

Estonian newspaper Eesti Ekspress apologized for a "fake ad" in its "humor section" that paired "a photo of prisoners at...

Al Jazeera's "mobile service" was hacked this weekend and a "three false texts" were sent, the Australian Herald Sun reported. ...

The Columbia Spectator fired reporter Jade Bonacolta for an article with "plagiarized content" from the New York Times and making...

Fake blog posts were published on Amnesty International's blog, Amnesty tweeted Aug. 27. According to the Associated Press, the hackers...

As we wrote yesterday, Arizona newspaper the East Valley Tribune told readers that it had unpublished "several articles" by an...