Standards, Policies, Best Practices, Ethical Standards in News Media

Editors don’t have to fact check Letters to Editor, UK press regulator says

News outlets don't have to fact check "every fact" in a letter to the editor, the UK press regulator the...

Should the San Diego Union-Tribune have named a woman suing her former employer for sexual harassment? The newspaper did print...

The Stanford Daily, Stanford University's college newspaper, published an article on April 27 that is now says was based on an off-the-record...

The BBC's Today program interviewed Lord Lawson, a climate change "doubter", about climate change last August. That interview was subject...

Kari Lake, an anchor for Phoenix, Arizona Fox-affiliate KSAZ tweeted that teachers were striking as part of "a push to...

The CBS news program 60 Minutes showed, the network admitted, "upsetting" graphic photographs of lynchings in a recent segment on a memorial...

The Sydney Morning Herald published a story about the World War I battle at Villers-Bretonneux, the headline of which referred...

The Daily Express suspended freelance journalist Colin Mafham and apologized after the writer upset readers by asking "Why does trouble...

Joy Reid, the popular MSNBC host, said she doesn't think she wrote the homophobic blogposts that were attributed to her...