by Sydney Smith on Sep 27, 2011
Inside BBC’s Dog Stoning Hoax Story : A Case Study on a Reader’s Fight for Accuracy and Accountability
Editor's Note : This is a case study of a hoax story as experienced by a reader who was pursuing...
Unpublishing
by Sydney Smith on Sep 27, 2011
Arch Daily Responds to Plagiarism Charges from Architecture Record
As iMediaEthics wrote briefly last week, an architecture news site, Architecture Record, accused fellow architecture news site Arch Daily of lifting...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 15, 2011
CBS News Unpublishes ‘Internet News’ Stories after Fake Steve Jobs Dead Tweet
CBS News unpublished all of its "web series" posts from "What's Trending" because "What's Trending" tweeted fake news that Steve...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 08, 2011
Yahoo News Unpublishes Post Accused of Racism?
Yahoo News has unpublished an aggregated story and image that led to charges of racism, according to the author of the original...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
Fox Sports Apologizes for Univ. of Southern California Interview Video
Fox Sports has apologized and unpublished a segment purporting to "welcome" the Univ. of Southern California football team to a football...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 06, 2011
Media Retract, Update after Internet Explorer Study revealed as Hoax
Media outlets ranging from the BBC and Los Angeles Times to PC World New Zealand and CNet were hoaxed by...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 05, 2011
Is Billionaire’s Defamation Win Libel Tourism?
The Ethiopian Review must pay Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi £175,000 in a libel payment, the BBC reported. Al-Amoudi is an "Ethiopian-born billionaire"...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 02, 2011
Huffington Post retracts blogpost about Andrew Breitbart doctoring
The Huffington Post retracted a blogpost claiming that Andrew Breitbart "doctored a video clip from a White House press briefing...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 22, 2011
ESPN Deletes ‘Rupert Murdoch Reference’ from Online Story
Gawker-owned blog Deadspin spotted a bit of unpublishing on ESPN's Rick Reilly's column. According to Deadspin, a sentence referencing "the...