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

PBS NewsHour Stands by Bernie Sanders Coverage

PBS NewsHour stands by its coverage of Bernie Sanders after viewer complaints. PBS ombudsman Michael Getler wrote May 25 about viewers...

The Houston Chronicle apologized after upsetting Major League Baseball player Carlos Gomez with quotes the newspaper attributed to him. In the...

The Toronto Star took down a photo of two homeless men after complaints that it was insensitive to the homeless. The face...

The UK Daily Mail has to pay £40,000 (around $58,000 U.S.) for a September 2015 story that may have identified a...

UK broadcasters now have more guidelines for content that may be hate speech or of a harmful nature. The UK broadcast...

The Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence has a new online plug-in available that lets users remove the name of mass...

Four employees of Australia's Channel Nine News are on leave while the network investigates what went wrong in a reporting...

There's a new media ethics code in Montenegro. Journalists from local news outlets Dan, Vijesti and Monitor helped create the guidelines as...

The Globe and Mail apologized after plagiarism was found in two columns by Margaret Wente. Public editor Sylvia Stead confirmed...