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

Simon Singh Case: British Court Rules Scientific Decisions Shouldn’t be Settled in Courts

A British appeals court has ruled that the courts shouldn’t settle scientific disputes. The court ruled in favor of writer...

The British Press Complaints Commission is holding a blog to the same journalistic standards as a news entity. That is, the...

Thanks to the Internet, a simple Google search of a person’s name can now quickly turn up that police record you...

Columbia Journalism Review's recent study of magazine's Web sites asked editors if their Internet content was copy edited and fact...

This week saw studies from the Pew Research Center and the Society for New Communications Research documenting how the landscapes of...

Mugshot magazines and newspaper sections, featured in an iMediaEthics report almost two years ago, are still a growth industry. The core...

This week, the UK Press Complaints Commission decided to reject complaints against Jan Moir’s obituary of Stephen Gately, leader of the...

In the wake of January’s tragic earthquake in Haiti, iMediaEthics covered the debate over the media’s use of graphic images from...

Trying to hold the media up to the highest standards of ethics, it’s easy lose sight of just how hard...