Great article from the Poynter site. Excerpt:

On the Ethics of Linking: The Indianapolis Story

It began with the death of Mpozi Tolbert, a 34 year-old photographer who collapsed and died in the newsroom of The Indianapolis Star on July 3. Three weeks later, debate over the circumstances of his death has raised two sets of questions. The first deals with the facts of what happened that night.

Ruth Holladay, a former Star columnist used her personal Web site to accuse the paper's management of failing to maintain safety standards that might have saved Tolbert's life. Dennis Ryerson, editor and vice president of the Star, dismissed her charges as "reprehensible ... erroneous and hurtful."

The second set of questions deals with what's happened, journalistically, since that night. Specifically, the questions involve links from the Romenesko page on Poynter Online to the allegations Holladay published on her blog. Ryerson denounced Poynter's handling of the links in e-mail messages to Poynter's Jim Romenesko and Bob Steele...

Poynter's links to Holladay's blog raise questions about how journalists in general -- and Poynter in particular -- should handle coverage of the kind of important but often unconfirmed -- and sometimes just plain wrong -- comments that populate some of the new media landscape.