Guardian removes suicide bomb video after 550 complaints
The Guardian has removed a video from its website showing a suicide bomb attack in Israel after more than 550 complaints were made about the footage. The piece, which was selected from a package of...
View ArticleComment is Free: The Guardian is getting ruder
Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian’s readers’ editor, looks at the paper’s ‘rudeness': the paper published the ‘f-word’ 33 times in 1985, 495 times in 2000 and 843 times in 2007.Similar Posts:...
View ArticleComment is Free: The Guardian readers’ editor on unpublishing
Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian’s readers’ editor, discusses ‘unpublishing’ or responding to people’s requests to delete comments and articles online. ‘Should people who have gone to the trouble of...
View ArticleGuardian.co.uk: Handling reader responses in a ‘digital age’
In her weekly column, the Guardian readers’ editor, Siobhain Butterworth, takes a look at newspapers’ handling of reader complaints and responses in the age of digital publishing. She picks out a New...
View ArticleGuardian.co.uk: How the Guide fell for Banksy hoax
As reported in its corrections and clarifications last week the Guardian’s Guide interview on July 18 ‘purporting to be with Banksy’ [no longer available online] was in fact ‘conducted with someone...
View ArticleGuardian readers’ editor told that sub-editors are journalists
Not only does the Guardian’s media blogger Roy Greenslade have it in for the subs, but its readers’ editor, Siobhain Butterworth, inadvertently cut them out the profession in her column on Monday. A...
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