The Media Drop

When it comes to codes of conduct, ethics, and people being ever-so-stalwart to dig and dig into what people are doing and saying, the blogosphere has its serious ups and downs. But while the Web’s semi-disorganized yet sometimes-really-organized ways have left people to do much of the decision-making to themselves and the organizations they are […]

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ESPN.com just published an AP story about a writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal who was thrown out of Louisville’s game against Oklahoma State on Sunday. It seems that Brian Bennett was liveblogging the event on behalf of the newspaper, a no-no the association thought it had ruled out. The NCAA contends that this was a […]

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Last week, news came out that Ivan Safronov, a Russian journalist with Kommersant, a daily paper, died after falling out of a window. Word was that his death appeared suspicious, especially given the materials he had been investigating for a story had reportedly caused someone to “threaten” him.

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TVNewser points to a CNN item detailing how Jeff Koinange, an Africa correspondent, was robbed outside of CNN’s Johannesburg offices this weekend. [via Netscape]

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Taking a page out of the slacker handbook this week is apparently The Australian’s Frank Devine, who finds that sources are much more easy to get quotes from when you just Google the topic you are looking for, make a few key changes to the exact quotations and information that someone else acquired, and print […]

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Last week, Wired News posted an item stating that a few articles had been removed from its online stores after the publication determined that a writer that had been publishing stories using sources that weren’t who they claimed, or using at least one quote that was said at a previous time, by someone now deceased. […]

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Last week, Boston Sports Media’s David Scott came across the info that Boston University journalism professor Michael Gee had been fired for writing online about one of his students whom he apparently found attractive.

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On Thursday, Knight Ridder published a report out of Russia stating that authorities in that country believe that Chechen rebel leader Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev is responsible for the murder of Forbes‘ Russian-language editor, Paul Klebnikov, last July.

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In Friday’s Native American Times, Sam Lewin writes about the guff CNN is currently receiving for its exclusion of American Indians in the group of minorities eligible to receive a piece of $1 million in scholarship money for future journalists. The Native American Journalists Association is leading the protest against CNN, as the network apparently […]

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The AP’s Julhas Alam reports that Golam Mahfuz, editor of the Bangladeshi Comilla Muktakantha newspaper, was killed on Monday by “unidentified assailants.”

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