by Sydney Smith on Jan 18, 2011
Top Ten Fake News Stories from China
Shanghai Daily reported a list of ten top fake news stories out of Chinese media in 2010. According to the Shanghai...
Fact Checking
by Sydney Smith on Jan 11, 2011
NPR Apologizes, Corrects Stories Claiming Congresswoman Gabby Giffords Died
The mass shooting in Arizona on Jan. 8 left six people dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords "seriously wounded," but some news outlets...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2010
The Sun Admits Publishing Fake Story about Al-Qaeda Threats
The Sun fessed up to publishing a fake story on its front page earlier this month, Roy Greenslade reported in...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 23, 2010
NYT Celebrates Cheating Before Marriage? Were Ex-Spouses Asked to Comment Before Style Story?
The New York Times' published an untraditional "Vows" story last weekend that led to an online backlash. The Dec. 17...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 20, 2010
iMediaEthics’ 2010 Ten Most Read Stories
1. iMediaEthics' exclusive Feb. 18 story by Molika Ashford exposed an undisclosed conflict of interest in Jared Diamond's book review published...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer , Sydney Smith on Dec 15, 2010
HuffPost Removes Fake Aisha Story After iMediaEthics Fact Check
Abdulhadi Hairan's Aug. 29, 2010 Huffington Post blog post titled "Is Time's Aisha Story Fake?" issued a serious charge of fraud and mistaken...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 12, 2010
Pakistani News Media Admit Hoaxed By Fake WikiLeaks Cables
Newspapers in Pakistan were hoaxed by phony WikiLeaks cables, the BBC reported. The newspapers reported information from hoax cables which presented "anti-Indian...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 01, 2010
Journalist Bill Kovach About New Book ‘Blur’ :
Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, the authors of the standby journalism textbook The Elements of Journalism, have published a new...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 29, 2010
TIME Mag’s Kathryn Schulz says Media Errors need to be Corrected promptly
Time's Kathryn Schulz wrote Nov. 24 about "why journalists get the big things wrong." In the article, Schulz, an author...