by Sydney Smith on Jun 16, 2011
Ethics of Reporting on Genderless Child?
Margaret Somerville, McGill University's director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law, questioned the ethics of reporting on the...
Standards
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2011
Toronto Star Public Editor on Identifying the Homeless
The Toronto Star's public editor, Kathy English, took up the issue of describing the homeless as "street people" in a...
by Corinne Segal on Jun 08, 2011
First day of BBC Social Media Summit under wraps
Journalists attending the BBC Social Media Summit on May 20 discussed ways to "shift" their attitude toward social media, according...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 07, 2011
What to do “When Crime Victims Tweet”
Poynter's Mallary Jean Tenore highlighted the "difficult questions for journalists" prompted by a Florida woman's tweets reporting her own rape....
by Sydney Smith on Jun 05, 2011
Shepard Smith at Fox News Ends Interview after Interviewee’s Conflict of Interest Revealed?
Mediaite reported that Fox News's Shepard Smith apparently ended an interview after learning that the interviewee, Symantic group president Francis...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 02, 2011
Stowe Boyd on Bloomberg’s new social media policy: Is it ‘Almost Offensive’?
According to Stowe Boyd's early May blogpost, Bloomberg's new social media policy "is almost offensive." Boyd noted that Bloomberg's social...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 01, 2011
Are ESPN Interviews Scripted by Management?
Sports by Brooks reported that ESPN's executive editor John Walsh confirmed that the network seems to have scripted ESPN's interviews with...
by Sydney Smith on May 30, 2011
Brisbane: NYT Should Restrain Itself in “Fringe” Story Reporting
The New York Times' public editor, Arthur Brisbane, opined on the New York Times' reporting on "the world as we...
by Sydney Smith on May 30, 2011
Is the New York Times Sofitel hotel Infographic of the alleged Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape scene overkill? (C
iMediaEthics wonders what the New York Times was thinking in its Sofitel infographic titled "Recreating an Encounter." We spotted this infographic after...