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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged unpublishing

1. October 26, 2012 03:00 PM

   CNN says women vote with their hormones

   The Twitterverse goes mental

   By Hazel Sheffield

   It took seven hours of Internet backlash on Wednesday night for the Internet to convince CNN that an article it published needed to be removed. The article? A piece written by CNN’s Elizabeth Landau, based on unpublished research, saying that women’s voting choices are affected by their ovulation cycles. For a time, the story was featured on the CNN homepage....

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2. April 9, 2012 11:37 AM

   Unpublishing Requests Are on the Rise

   As more content shifts from print to web, journalists are seeing rising requests from sources to remove stories

   By Dan Watson

   I recently encountered a sticky conundrum as editor of a student-run digital news website at the University of Southern California. A woman, the centerpiece of a story on the continued plight of the architecture industry in California three years after the recession, contacted one of my reporters in a panic. The source was a Canadian citizen, and it became too...

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