Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

German Lifestyle magazine apologizes for Fake Beyonce Interview

The German "lifestyle" and entertainment magazine NEON apologized to its readers and Beyonce this weekend after the publication ran an...

iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week about ABC News’ manipulated video supposedly showing a test of unplanned acceleration in a Toyota vehicle....

Just as in print stories, images and videos that are broadcast on television are subject to editing. And, just as manipulating...

A violent gun battle erupted in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (SHP PNG)...not really. Even though this...

We’ve written before about disappointing science journalism that endangers health, or sticks too closely to press releases, or creates a...

TPM recently called out dozens of media outlets for continuing an unsubstantiated story that Umar Abdulmutallab--the man who allegedly tried...

A recent ABC News broadcast offers a stark example of how bad the problem of false balance in science reporting...

With some journalists lamenting that the media don’t take scientists seriously enough, Newsweek has now pointed out that some are...

With Jayson Blair lecturing publicly to university students about how plagiarism and fabrication got him kicked off the New York...