Posts Tagged ‘internal investigation’

Mainichi Daily News apologizes, disciplines staff and relaunches website after repeatedly publishing “extremely inappropriate articles” that “were not checked”

For many years, the Mainichi Daily News, the English website of Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, was the place to go if you wanted to read salacious articles about the sexual habits of the Japanese. The stories, which were featured in the site’s “WaiWai” column, frequently stretched believability. Here’s a list of stories published on its [...]

ABC News investigation clears Alexis* Debat of fabrication, cites “four details… that we couldn’t confirm”

Background here and here. TVNewser acquired the memo that ABC News head David Westin sent to staff about the findings of the internal investigation into the work of Alexis Debat, a former consultant with the network. Some relevant excerpts: …This review was extremely sensitive, as it required going back to confidential sources in this country [...]

The week that was

We took a brief late summer vacation last week, but the corrections and accuracy news kept coming. So, enjoy some items of note from last week. And also read our other posts below for some notable corrections from last week. Manipulated War Photos? This big ongoing story relates to accusations against news organizations for running [...]