New York Times Says Anonymous Sources have Dropped 30%
The New York Times has been monitoring its use of anonymous sources this year. Phil Corbett, associate managing editor for standards, told Times public editor Elizabeth Spayd, who recently succeeded...
View ArticleHawaii’s Civil Beat Gets Readers Rep
There is a new readers representative position to go with a new-ish journalism outlet in Hawaii, iMediaEthics has learned. Brett Oppegaard, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, is...
View ArticleGlenn Beck’s Producer Won’t ID anonymous sources from Boston Marathon...
Joe Weasel, the producer for Glenn Beck’s radio program, will not give up his sources for Beck’s on-air claims about Abdulrahman Alharbi and the Boston Marathon bombing. As iMediaEthics has reported,...
View ArticleMedia in Jordan blurred ads & editorial, overused anonymous sources in...
A Jordanian educational organization, the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), studied 20 of the country’s news outlets and their coverage of the most recent parliamentary elections. What it found wasn’t...
View ArticleAustralia’s Good Weekend Magazine named Interviewee it promised anonymity,...
An Australian magazine promised a convicted murderer anonymity for an article about him, but slipped up and named him in its story this weekend, Australian media website Mumbrella reported. The Sept....
View ArticleFox News’ Bret Baier Corrects Clinton FBI Indictment Story
Fox News’ Bret Baier apologized Friday for reporting it was “likely” there would be an FBI Clinton Foundation indictment. Baier had said Nov. 2 on Fox News, that FBI sources told him “barring some...
View ArticleWhy BuzzFeed published Unverified Trump Intel Dossier (And Why Others Didn’t)
Everyone is abuzz after BuzzFeed published an unverified document alleging to be a round-up of intelligence memos on Donald Trump. BuzzFeed threw the whole bundle of memos online, warning readers they...
View ArticleWhy CNN was accused of Blackmail over HanAssholeSolo Story
CNN has been accused of blackmail over its story about HanAssholeSolo, the Reddit user who posted the doctored video of Pres. Donald Trump bodyslamming CNN. The GIF, which Trump tweeted a version of...
View ArticleNYC Antiquities Dealer Sues WSJ over ISIS Looting Investigations Story
A New York antiquities dealer, Hicham Aboutaam, is suing the Wall Street Journal for suggesting he and his brother have sold items looted by ISIS. The Journal‘s May 31 article, “Prominent Art Family...
View ArticleProvidence Journal identified its own anonymous source, Will police officer sue?
It was bad enough that the Providence Journal outed an anonymous source in a story retraction. But then, the editors also blamed the errors in the story on the source, claiming he gave bad information....
View ArticleNew York Times Says Anonymous Sources have Dropped 30%
The New York Times has been monitoring its use of anonymous sources this year. Phil Corbett, associate managing editor for standards, told Times public editor Elizabeth Spayd, who recently succeeded...
View ArticleHawaii’s Civil Beat Gets Readers Rep
There is a new readers representative position to go with a new-ish journalism outlet in Hawaii, iMediaEthics has learned. Brett Oppegaard, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, is...
View ArticleGlenn Beck’s Producer Won’t ID anonymous sources from Boston Marathon...
Joe Weasel, the producer for Glenn Beck’s radio program, will not give up his sources for Beck’s on-air claims about Abdulrahman Alharbi and the Boston Marathon bombing. As iMediaEthics has reported,...
View ArticleMedia in Jordan blurred ads & editorial, overused anonymous sources in...
A Jordanian educational organization, the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), studied 20 of the country’s news outlets and their coverage of the most recent parliamentary elections. What it found wasn’t...
View ArticleAustralia’s Good Weekend Magazine named Interviewee it promised anonymity,...
An Australian magazine promised a convicted murderer anonymity for an article about him, but slipped up and named him in its story this weekend, Australian media website Mumbrella reported. The Sept....
View ArticleFox News’ Bret Baier Corrects Clinton FBI Indictment Story
Fox News’ Bret Baier apologized Friday for reporting it was “likely” there would be an FBI Clinton Foundation indictment. Baier had said Nov. 2 on Fox News, that FBI sources told him “barring some...
View ArticleWhy BuzzFeed published Unverified Trump Intel Dossier (And Why Others Didn’t)
Everyone is abuzz after BuzzFeed published an unverified document alleging to be a round-up of intelligence memos on Donald Trump. BuzzFeed threw the whole bundle of memos online, warning readers they...
View ArticleWhy CNN was accused of Blackmail over HanAssholeSolo Story
CNN has been accused of blackmail over its story about HanAssholeSolo, the Reddit user who posted the doctored video of Pres. Donald Trump bodyslamming CNN. The GIF, which Trump tweeted a version of...
View ArticleNYC Antiquities Dealer Sues WSJ over ISIS Looting Investigations Story
A New York antiquities dealer, Hicham Aboutaam, is suing the Wall Street Journal for suggesting he and his brother have sold items looted by ISIS. The Journal‘s May 31 article, “Prominent Art Family...
View ArticleProvidence Journal identified its own anonymous source, Will police officer sue?
It was bad enough that the Providence Journal outed an anonymous source in a story retraction. But then, the editors also blamed the errors in the story on the source, claiming he gave bad information....
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