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

Montreal Gazette Sports Reporter Tweets Shania Twain ‘Looked like a Tramp’

Montreal Gazette sports reporter Herb Zurkowsky tweeted that country music star Shania Twain "looked like a tramp" at the Canadian...

Crain's Chicago Business will no longer allow readers to post comments. The site announced it is "pulling the plug on...

How should the media report on deaths? The UK press regulator Independent Press Standards Organization addressed that question last week...

The baseball blogger Ryan Schultz isn't a married man with two children; in fact, the person behind the name is...

CBS News fired Charlie Rose today, less than 24 hours after the Washington Post reported that eight women accused him...

Last year, the New Yorker reported. based on an anonymous "Republican" source, that Gov. Chris Christie had to fetch then-candidate Donald...

Charlie Rose is the latest journalist accused of sexual misconduct. Today, the Washington Post reported that eight women, five anonymously,...

Gay Times magazine fired its new editor Josh Rivers because of his offensive, anti-Semitic tweets from years earlier. The UK...

Eight years ago, the UK Independent published an op-ed by movie producer Harvey Weinstein that defended director Roman Polanski from...