PressEthic

Marie Claire is under fire, according to Mediabistro.com and the Drudge Report, for altering a photo of Elizabeth Vargas breastfeeding her newborn at the news desk.

Reuters partners with the world's largest blog syndication network and plans to distribute these blogs to their thousands of media customers worldwide.

Because they're about to tear apart The Spokesman-Review for outing former mayor Jim West.

Tomorrow, Al Jazeera will launch its English-language international channel, but U.S. cable companies aren't offering it to consumers.

As a reader I always prefer accuracy to inaccuracy, and fair portrayals to unfair portrayals.

But stylistically, I'd rather suffer through a few creative leads that don't quite work than slog through as many boring leads that are functional but uninspired.

The Chicago Independent Media Center recently published the last words and mission statement of a man who burned himself alive to make a political statement about peace. In an age where war and protest are becoming more and more prevalent, how should such politically-charged subjects be tackled by journalists?

Three Journalists, including the editor-in-chief, from a Danish Newspaper are now on trial for publishing classified documents in 2004. The reports, leaked from the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, asserted that Iraq did not, in fact, have weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein, an AP article today said.

Brooke Gladstone of NPR's On the Media asked how far journalists should go to express their political beliefs. Some newsrooms don't allow their reporters to reveal their political leanings or register with a party. Should reporters be allowed to vote at all?

We've talked alot in this class, and in the program in general, about the respective functions of print and online media, the decline of print, etc. ScientificAmerican.com recently published an article explaing how they utilized both online and print formats cooperatively in their coverage of a single topic.

The gist is this: Scientific American published a basic synopsis of the topic (discovery of a fossilized human ancestor) immediately online, including a link where readers could answers questions about what other information they wanted to see in the published piece. Then, factoring in reader responses, they published a much more thorough piece several weeks later.

President Bush has never been applauded for his rhetorical skills, but his recent, contradicting statements about Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation have given way to particularly vocal criticism in the press.

Before the election, President Bush had announced that both Rumsfeld and Cheney would stay on for the rest of his term. Thus, during last Wednesday’s press conference, he was called to explain not only Rumsfeld’s departure itself, but the contradicting information that he had provided the media a few days prior.

When faced with the inevitable question, President Bush said that until the day of the press conference, the decision about Rumsfeld’s replacement had not yet been finalized. Furthermore, he had deliberately chosen not to announce such a major decision on the eve of the election.

Democrat Sam Duncan won his reelection campaign for the Union County, North Carolina’s Soil and Water Conservation board. Democrats dutifully helped the candidate by distributing literature and running newspaper advertisements. The problem was that nobody knew that Duncan had died a month earlier.

On Friday, a new 22-minute audio recording by Shaykh Abu-Hamzah al-Muhajir, leader of Al-Qa’ida in Iraq, was released on the web. But some of the statement's content seems to have been filtered out by the news media.

Have you heard the big news? I’m not talking about Saddam Hussein being sentenced to death by hanging or the Democrats winning the House and the Senate. I’m not even referring to Donald Rumsfeld stepping down as Secretary of Defense. No, I mean Britney Spears filing for divorce from hubby Kevin Federline. And, gasp!, Reese Witherspoon filing for divorce a day later.

A video filmed in August during a police arrest in Los Angeles was posted on YouTube Thursday, raising questions about the LAPD's use of force—unfortunately, an all too familiar theme for the city. But thanks to YouTube, the case has gone worldwide.

The New York Times scolded news outlets ESPN and the The Fort Worth Star-Telegram for reporting bids for the Japanese baseball pitcher, Daisuke Matsuzaka, through anonymous sources. Should the news outlets have kept quiet about the bids until they were made official? Did the New York Times handle the situation ethically?