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Near Miss on Palmer Frustrates Schefter

The Poynter Review Project’s Jason Fry wrote in a column on ESPN: Earlier this week, Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reported that the Cincinnati Bengals had traded Carson Palmer to the Oakland Raiders, ending the quarterback’s season-long retirement. Amid analysis of the trade came questions about whether ESPN’s NFL reporter Adam Schefter had known about the deal Monday night, but opted not to report it to avoid scuttling the trade. Read the rest of Jason’s article here.

ESPN's Decision to Part with Hank Williams

A furor erupted last week after country-music legend Hank Williams Jr. compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. By the end of the week, ESPN had severed ties with the longtime curtain-raiser for “Monday Night Football,” a decision that resulted in no small amount of controversy — as well as a new Hank Jr. song. Read the complete article here.

MBride: ". . . professional journalists have an absolute obligation to make lies transparent"

Huffington Post quotes Poynter’s Kelly McBride in an article titled “When Candidates Lie, What’s A Political Reporter To Do?” Read the article here.

McBride: "Rather than asking 'Should we show this?' journalists are asking 'How should we show this?' "

Kelly McBride, Poynter Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, is quoted in a Houston Chronicle story about showing graphic images. Read the story here.

Clark: Media’s coverage of cases reflects how society views different races, sexes.

Roy Peter Clark, Poynter Vice President and Senior Scholar, is quoted by the Tri-State Defender in an article about what news coverage might have been had Casey Anthony been African American. Read it here.

McBride: "This is a classic example of what happens when you do dishonest things"

Kelly McBride, Poynter Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, was quoted in USAToday in an article about the Rupert Murdoch/phone hacking scandal. The story can be found here.

McBride: " One of the things driving the Casey Anthony saga is the window into a dysfunctional family."

Kelly McBride, Poynter Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, was interviewed by Southern California Public Radio in a story about the Casey Anthony trial. Read the transcript here.

McBride: “Journalism isn’t dying, but journalism institutions are . . .”

Poynter’s Kelly McBride was quoted in a Gonzaga Magazine article about her role in guiding citizen journalists. Read the article here.

McBride: "A fake press release is actually a fairly unsophisticated way of getting out information"

Kelly McBride, Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, is quoted in a CNN.com story about a fake website that spoofed a coal company giving away free inhalers to children. Read the article here.

McBride: 'What journalistic purpose are we trying to accomplish here?'

Kelly McBride, Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, is quoted in an IndependentMail.com story about publishing pictures of the dead Osama bin Laden. Read the article here.