by Molika Ashford on Dec 15, 2009
Minnesota Journalist Frustrated that Media Still Report Junk Science
In a December 8 commentary on Minnesota Public Radio’s online news site, Haddayr Copley-Woods, a journalist and blogger posed the...
Fact Checking
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Nov 30, 2009
Reuters relies on Blogger, iCasualties.org, for War Dead Numbers
In mainstream media journalism, "blogger inaccuracy" is one of the most often mentioned criticisms. The blogger Michael White appears to be one...
by Molika Ashford on Nov 26, 2009
Why Journalists Should Learn Math (Or At Least Learn to Fact-Check Math)
Regret The Error’s Craig Silverman has a great post up at the Columbia Journalism Review about why journalists should learn math....
by Katie Rolnick on Nov 14, 2009
TechCrunch’s Paul Carr Sparks a Debate About Citizen Journalism about Fort Hood
If Paul Carr meant to start a debate, he succeeded. Over the weekend, Carr, who writes for Techcrunch, penned a...
by Molika Ashford on Nov 11, 2009
Why Did Everyone Fall For Balloon Boy? Slate Says Media Is Too Trusting of Emotions
The Balloon Boy hoax this October captured so much coverage in so many media, it’s appropriate to wonder what it...
by Molika Ashford on Nov 06, 2009
The Case of Amy Wallace: Accurate Vaccine Reporting Inspires Misogynistic Attacks, Threats
iMediaEthics has been working to critique and correct bad vaccine reporting this fall flu season. But this time, instead of...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 27, 2009
Fact-Checking Media Matters’s claim: Fox & Friends’ Wrong On Two Polling Questions?
MediaMatters.org, a progressive website dedicated to correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, brought up two instances of bad poll...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 26, 2009
Bioethicist Cites Bad Flu Reporting, Asks: Can We Really Expect Any Better From Journalism?
The spring and fall flu seasons this year have spurred a flood of sensationalist medical reporting focused on the H1N1...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 26, 2009
Former NY Times Reporter Linda Greenhouse Tells Young Journalists To Put Truth Before Facts
In the October 21 edition of the Cornell Daily Sun, reporter Dani Neuharth-Keusch gives a rundown of the previous day’s lecture on...