Sex Crime Victim: ‘Felt less-than-Human’ After Student Newspaper’s ‘Rap Pun’
Staff of Boston University’s “independent student newspaper” the Daily Free Press will have to take “mandatory sensitivity training” after complaints that the paper made fun of victims of sexual...
View ArticleDr. Nancy Snyderman Back at NBC in November, Should she cover Ebola? Can she...
Should NBC News penalize chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman for breaking a voluntary Ebola quarantine? On Oct. 22, NBC News president Deborah Turness said Snyderman and the team were “healthy and...
View ArticleWhy did St. Louis Post-Dispatch Name Possible Sexual Assault Victim?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named a woman who may have been the victim of a sexual assault. But that wasn’t all. The newspaper also fully identified her by age and job, described her injuries and...
View ArticleMurders of Journalists Alison Parker, Adam Ward: Suspect Flanagan Dies at...
Former WDBJ employee Vester Lee Flanagan (who used the name Bryce Williams also) is accused of killing reporter Alison Parker and photographer Adam Ward during a live TV broadcast this morning....
View ArticleJournalists, ‘Take Care of Yourself’ is Focus of University of Arkansas...
Journalists need to “take care of yourself.” That is the message and lesson students and the public who attend an upcoming journalism ethics summit at the University of Arkansas will learn. The...
View ArticleHow Not to Report on Suicide: Sharon Herald Story Crossed the Line
Readers were shocked after daily Pennsylvania newspaper The Sharon Herald published an insensitive and gratuitous story that horrifically detailed a local man’s death by suicide. “I’m disgusted with a...
View ArticleCoverage of Irish Murder-Suicide of Hawe Family Prompts Criticism
Ireland’s National Suicide Research Foundation criticized media coverage of the murder-suicide of an Irish family, Alan Hawe, his wife Clodagh, and their three sons. The Irish police say Alan Hawe...
View ArticleWhy the Deseret News Named 16-Year-Old Injured in School Shooting
The Deseret News explained why it decide to name a 16-year-old boy who was shot in a school shooting last month. The Deseret News’s managing editor Doug Wilks wrote Oct. 28 that at first, the Salt Lake...
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Australian Journalist Ginger Gorman’s Reporting on Child Sex Abuse ‘Stolen’...
It has become an all too familiar story: A freelance journalist spends hours, or weeks, putting together a hard-hitting investigative report, only to see it cannibalized by other news outlets, without...
View ArticleAustralian Suicide Story not in Public Interest, newspaper invaded privacy of...
The Parramatta Advertiser, a weekly newspaper in suburban Sydney owned by News Corp. Australia, published an invasive article about a man’s death by suicide without any public interest, the Australian...
View ArticleJournalists, ‘Take Care of Yourself’ is Focus of University of Arkansas...
Journalists need to “take care of yourself.” That is the message and lesson students and the public who attend an upcoming journalism ethics summit at the University of Arkansas will learn. The...
View ArticleHow Not to Report on Suicide: Sharon Herald Story Crossed the Line
Readers were shocked after daily Pennsylvania newspaper The Sharon Herald published an insensitive and gratuitous story that horrifically detailed a local man’s death by suicide. “I’m disgusted with a...
View ArticleCoverage of Irish Murder-Suicide of Hawe Family Prompts Criticism
Ireland’s National Suicide Research Foundation criticized media coverage of the murder-suicide of an Irish family, Alan Hawe, his wife Clodagh, and their three sons. The Irish police say Alan Hawe...
View ArticleWhy the Deseret News Named 16-Year-Old Injured in School Shooting
The Deseret News explained why it decide to name a 16-year-old boy who was shot in a school shooting last month. The Deseret News’s managing editor Doug Wilks wrote Oct. 28 that at first, the Salt Lake...
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Australian Journalist Ginger Gorman’s Reporting on Child Sex Abuse ‘Stolen’...
It has become an all too familiar story: A freelance journalist spends hours, or weeks, putting together a hard-hitting investigative report, only to see it cannibalized by other news outlets, without...
View ArticleAustralian Suicide Story not in Public Interest, newspaper invaded privacy of...
The Parramatta Advertiser, a weekly newspaper in suburban Sydney owned by News Corp. Australia, published an invasive article about a man’s death by suicide without any public interest, the Australian...
View ArticleNaming the Freeman School Shooter: Why Spokane TV News Did
After a 15-year-old killed a classmate and shot and wounded several others at Freeman School on Sept. 13, the ABC-affiliate KXLY and NBC-affiliate KHQ in Spokane, Wash. decided to name the school...
View ArticleMirror Unpublishes article on suicide after mom complains
The UK Mirror Online unpublished a story about a university student who died by suicide after the student’s mother complained to the UK press regulator, the Independent Press Standards Organisation....
View ArticleNew York Times defends graphic photo of Nairobi terrorism attack
The New York Times defended publishing a graphic photo of the victims of the Nairobi terrorism attack at DusitD2 hotel and office complex this week. Many Kenyans complained about the photo, the Kenya...
View ArticleNew Zealand Terror Attack: Mail deletes manifesto, Mirror ‘should not have...
UK tabloids including the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail initially published and then deleted propaganda from the accused attacker who killed at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques last week....
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