by Sydney Smith on Sep 06, 2018
NPR Interview with Jason Kessler ‘Painful to hear,’ Ombuds says
NPR upset many listeners when it aired an interview with Jason Kessler, who organized the white nationalist "Unite the Right...
Ombudsmen/Press Councils
by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2018
Radio New Zealand wrongly said paraphrase was quote
Radio New Zealand, the New Zealand public broadcaster, wrongly attributed quotes to psychologist Michelle Levy, the broadcaster itself admitted. Levy...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2018
‘Final Solution’ Text about Israel winning Eurovision contest offensive
NT News trivialized the Holocaust when it published a text message using the words "final solution" referring to the Eurovision...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 02, 2018
Fashion Entrepreneur didn’t call Poor People ‘Scroungers,’ Mirror Admits
The Mirror Online broke press guidelines when it said Dhillan Bhardwaj, a 21-year-old fashion entrepreneur, said he "thought poor were...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 29, 2018
No one voluntarily used IPSO’s arbitration scheme, now it is compulsory
Readers upset about press coverage in many UK news outlets--and feel they have legal grounds for a case--can now go...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 22, 2018
Undercover reporting on beautician OK but Mail must correct
Late last year, the UK Mail on Sunday published a news investigation about "rogue beauticians" conducting "dangerous and illegal procedures"...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 20, 2018
OK to identify 17-year-old who made Facebook threats
It wasn't an invasion of privacy for the Daily Star to identify a 17-year-old who threatened on Facebook to kill...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 15, 2018
OK to post picture of murder convict with child
It wasn't an invasion of privacy for the tabloid Sunday Life to include a photograph of a child whose face...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 07, 2018
7 Daily Mail staff got disciplinary notes after errors in story
The UK Daily Mail sent "strongly worded disciplinary notes" to seven staff members over a problematic story about a man...