by Sydney Smith on May 29, 2010
Free Press Launches MediaFail Web site, user-generated examples of bad media
The New York Times’s Media Decoder blog reported May 24 that the nonprofit organization Free Press “has built a Digglike...
Media's Future
by Sydney Smith on May 28, 2010
Readers criticize The New York Times’ City Room blog about the late Hank Jones
Is it ethical for a reporter to go in a recently deceased man’s apartment and then write a blog entry...
by Sydney Smith on May 26, 2010
Shield Laws Update: Called not a journalist by NJ Courts, Blogger explains her case
A New Jersey appeals court recently ruled that blogger and investigator Shellee Hale is not a journalist and therefore not...
by Sydney Smith on May 11, 2010
New Ethics for the Non-Profit Newsroom?
iMediaEthics is a non-profit news site. On April 26, three journalism centers published a roundtable report, “Ethics for the New Investigative Newsroom"...
by Sydney Smith on May 09, 2010
As hyperlocal news sites pop up, so do journalism concerns
Hyperlocal news sites have been popping up a lot lately, especially with Patch.com's expansion, as a possible alternative to newspapers' sagging...
by Sydney Smith on May 03, 2010
World Press Freedom Day’s New List of Freedom Predators
Today is World Press Freedom Day and with it comes the new Reporters Without Borders' annual list of 40 freedom predators,...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 22, 2010
Injured Freelance Journalist Paul Raffaele Files Lawsuit against Smithsonian Mag, United States
EXCLUSIVE: Freelance journalist Paul Raffaele is suing the United States, the Smithsonian Institution and Smithsonian magazine for breach of contract....
by Sydney Smith on Apr 20, 2010
Police raided student newspaper to seize riot photos
Did the April 10, 2010 violence at a Virginia student "Springfest" riot justify police raiding a student newspaper's office to...
by Robert Buckman on Apr 16, 2010
Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent who got it right, Killed 65 years ago this week
Sixty-five years ago this week, on April 18, 1945, iconic war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese machine gun fire while...