Reader Reforms

Plagiarizing magazine turns a new page

By Erika Fry   Dec 14, 2011 at 01:56 PM

In October, I wrote about the most ridiculous (and egregious) case of editorial malpractice I’d ever seen. Reader Magazine, of... More

Anti-Romney voters’ top concern

By Erika Fry   Dec 9, 2011 at 10:36 AM

Perhaps last month's front-page, fact-packed, 1000-word story about Mitt Romney’s hair, from The New York Times’s Michael Barbaro and Ashley... More

Zuccotti Park’s Airspace Was Never Closed

Misreporting, and misunderstanding, of the press’s right-to-fly

By Erika Fry   Nov 22, 2011 at 01:38 PM

Did the New York's police close airspace to prevent news helicopters from getting footage of police action against Occupy Wall... More

The Supercommittee’s Avoidable Consequences

Early coverage overstated inevitability of cuts

By Erika Fry   Nov 21, 2011 at 06:19 PM

So, it turns out the supercommittee has failed. This should surprise no one, as most in the media had been... More

New York Tries to Defend Journalist Arrests

Flack’s pushback ignores the biggest issue

By Erika Fry   Nov 18, 2011 at 04:33 PM

The Observer’s Megan McCarthy has already covered this matter, but we’d just like to add that this is a really... More

Politicians and Penn State? Pass.

The presidential candidates have nothing to add to this scandal

By Erika Fry   Nov 16, 2011 at 03:19 PM

Last night, Sarah Palin told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren that if it were up to her to deal with... More

The Romenesko Saga

Some questions for Poynter about recent changes on its fabled site

By Erika Fry   Nov 11, 2011 at 04:05 PM

Yesterday, Poynter’s Julie Moos published a controversial post on the journalism institute’s Romenesko+ blog, which she credited to my “sharp... More

After Perry’s Gaffe, a Silence

Coverage should make room for what he meant to say

By Erika Fry   Nov 10, 2011 at 03:17 PM

It was “a cringe-worthy gaffe”, “a brain freeze”, “a political nightmare”, “a crash”, “an epic fail.” It “will likely go... More

Let’s Slow Down the Cain Train

Harassment charges are important. But so is so much else.

By Erika Fry   Nov 8, 2011 at 04:11 PM

And so here we are, into the second week of Cain-demonium: the breathless reporting, speculating, and opining about the late-1990s... More

Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street

By Erika Fry   Nov 4, 2011 at 11:17 AM

A good sign came out of New York City’s criminal court yesterday for journalists who have been swept up in... More

Live from the White House, it’s KETV

Obama goes local; local anchors land on the South Lawn

By Erika Fry   Nov 3, 2011 at 04:10 PM

The news at KETV Wednesday afternoon was much as you would expect from an ABC affiliate in Omaha. Among the... More

When Ledes Go Wrong

By Erika Fry   Nov 1, 2011 at 12:28 PM

Dear San Jose Mercury News, This is not the most politic way to begin a story about the West Nile... More

Cain’s Other Scandal

By Erika Fry   Oct 31, 2011 at 03:08 PM

In case you missed it, frontrunner Herman Cain is facing allegations, reported last night by Politico, that he sexually harassed... More

Plagiarism for Profit

California’s Reader Magazine has grown fat on second-hand news

By Erika Fry   Oct 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM

For a quarterly coupon magazine—even “Southern California’s best coupon, calendar & news magazine”—Reader Magazine would appear to have landed some... More

Plagiary for Profit

California’s Reader magazine has grown fat on second-hand news

By Erika Fry   Oct 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM

For a quarterly coupon magazine—even “Southern California’s best coupon, calendar & news magazine”—Reader Magazine would appear to have landed some... More