by Katie Rolnick on Oct 07, 2009
Washington Post Responds to Criticisms of New Social Media Guidelines
A few days ago, we wrote about the Washington Post's new social media guidelines. As we noted then, the response...
Social Media & Online Commenting
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 04, 2009
The Washington Post Issues Social Media Guidelines
To say that newspapers are struggling to keep up with new media would be a generous understatement. After more than...
by Ji Hyun Lee on Sep 18, 2009
Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark agrees with Obama Kanye West Jackass Comment: “Mr. West is a jackass ”
In an email response to imediaethics’s query about ABC’s off-the-record breach, the Poynter Institute’s vice president and senior scholar in...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 20, 2009
TechCrunch says: We can publish stolen Twitter documents
eLearnspace reports, "TechCrunch received over 300 documents from an individual who had hacked into Twitter’s network...The information ranges from silly...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 16, 2009
God and The Internet: Dalai Lama gets Fake Twitter account
A peculiar question arose after a fake Twitter account for the Dalai Lama was exposed: Can the Dalai Lama Twitter...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 11, 2009
NY Times Gets Philosophical on Citizen Journalism
Robert Mackey, on the The New York Times blog "The Lede", questioned the impact of citizen journalism. Citizen journalists don't...
by Danielle Elliot on Jan 21, 2009
MSNBC Misattributes Photo: Hudson River Plane Crash Pic by Janis Krums
A photo of the US Airways jet that crashed into the Hudson River should make citizen journalists think twice about...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Dec 05, 2008
Parent Alert! NYTimes trolled Facebook for Cindy McCain story
Clark Hoyt, The New York Times public editor, recently wrote about a "troubling issue" regarding how the Times deals with...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Aug 25, 2008
Cutting Out the Middle Man?
American Madness's Grant Catton writes: "By sending text messages with the information directly to the public, the Obama team effectively...