Allan Britnell, a Canadian freelance writer and fact-checker, has written an article suggesting that magazines should make a point of telling readers about their dedication to fact checking. Writing for Masthead Online, a website that reports on the Canadian magazine industry, Britnell proposes “an industry-wide campaign to promote fact checking” to readers: One of the [...]
Our report on the Yves Saint Laurent sale, “Caveat venditor” (March 7th), suggested that Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis may have been the purchasers of an early 20th-century chair designed by Eileen Gray. Mr Kravis assures us that neither he nor anyone in his family bought the chair in question. Our apologies to all concerned. Link [...]
“The Chopping Block”: A review of NBC’s new reality series “The Chopping Block” in Wednesday’s Calendar section said that cook-turned-restaurateur Marco Pierre White and his former assistant Mario Batali were feuding and no longer spoke to each other. The two are now good friends, according to a network publicist. Link Report an error
A photo accompanying an item on snowstorms in the South showed a statue of former University of Alabama football coach Paul “Bear†Bryant. A mention in the text of snow covering Civil War statues was coincidental and did not refer to the statue in the photo. The photo and item appeared on Page 1 of [...]
A headline in Tuesday’s Carolina Living section incorrectly described the Snuggie blanket as sleeveless. The blanket has sleeves. Link Report an error
A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Rick Steve’s business was a third of what it was last year. Rather, his business is down by one-third. Link Report an error
THE details of the story published in Friday’s Advocate titled “Judgment proves costly” is in no way related to Joshua Mareko, who was named in the story. The Advocate wishes to apologise to Mr Mareko for putting his name to this crime. The Advocate apologises for any inconvenience caused by this error. Report an error
Guilty as charged: Our report about the blessing of the bonnets as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations requires clarification (Bonnet blessing remembers convicts, page 18, March 9). No female convicts officially came to WA among the almost 10,000 male convicts. (Or did they? WA author Amanda Curtin’s novel The Sinkings is based on [...]
An article on April 30, 1906, about a New York watch repairer, Jonathan Dillon, who recalled secretly inscribing Abraham Lincoln’s watch while working on it in a Washington jewelry store in 1861, misstated part of the inscription, using information from Mr. Dillon (who the article noted had, at 84, “a remarkable memory.â€) The inscription reads: [...]
In the March 6 edition of the Simcoe Reformer, the word debouchment was spelled incorrectly in the article about a spelling bee. The Reformer regrets the error. Report an error
A letter to the editor, which touched lightly on English ignorance of Welsh matters, was attributed in an early edition to Hwyl Fawry. It should have been attributed to Gill Caldwell. She signed off her letter with hwyl fawr, which translates roughly as “all the best” (March frogs, 6 March, page 35). Link Report an [...]
Saturday’s graphic on household expenditure showed the difference in spending between the December quarter and the September quarter of last year. Figures were for millions of dollars, not percentages. Report an error
WRITER Lynley Dodd did not say she was too old to go changing her ways, as reported in yesterday’s article about the Government restoring titular honours. The error is regretted. Report an error
Students at the University of Rochester recently met in a single school building for several hours to show solidarity with Gaza, and they did so under normal university procedures. A de gustibus column on Feb. 27 mistakenly said students had “occupied buildings” and a March 3 letter to the editor mistakenly characterized the event as [...]
The Daily Targum, a student paper at Rutgers, last week published an editorial decrying a bill in North Dakota that would cause “a picture of a fertilized egg… [to be] considered child pornography.” As you can imagine, the bill in question had no such measure. The paper was fooled by a satirical article. The Targum [...]
From a column by Laura Vozzella in the Baltimore Sun: From the misplaced obsessive attention to detail file: In writing about Fred Bealefeld‘s missing dog Wednesday, I double-checked Scooby‘s gender (male) but somehow assumed the police chief’s two “kids” were boys. The commish has one boy and one girl. The Baltimore Sun, and this columnist [...]
Salary cap corrected: A story in Thursday’s sports section listed the 2009 NFL salary cap as $27 million. In fact, the salary cap is $127 million. Link Report an error
In “The famous faces that fooled Stanford clients” (News, 22 February) we wrote: “Randy Shain, vice-president of First Advantage Investigative Services in the US, said one of his clients had decided not to invest in [Sir Allen] Stanford’s empire after he found allegations of money laundering dating back to a 1996 lawsuit, settled out of [...]
In a Perspective piece by Gary Fields, professor of communications at the University of California, San Diego, that ran in Feb. 22, 2004, editions of the Chicago Tribune, an unverified quote was used and attributed to the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon. The op-ed quoted Yaalon as saying that “the Palestinians must be [...]
The men in macs sent to spy on communist sympathisers at a farm in Sussex at the height of the cold war were probably hiding in the bushes, rather than in the buses, as we had it (Max Ernst? He’s out picking tomatoes, 4 March, page 21, G2). Link Report an error
The Second Reading column in the March 6 Style section mistakenly said writer James Salter is dead. Link Report an error
Rhonda Roland Shearer and her team at Stinky Journalism do a great job digging into the story behind some big stories. They recently posted a look at the media reports about the crash of Continental Flight 3407 in Buffalo, New York. It worth a read. Here’s an excerpt: Were the pilots, captain Marvin D. Renslow [...]
A report from the Independent (UK): Jacob Rees-Mogg, the tweedy Conservative candidate for the new parliamentary seat of North-East Somerset, has been caught red-handed trying to rip off the Sun newspaper in his latest campaign leaflet. Rees-Mogg – who, as the son of the former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg, should perhaps know better – admitted [...]
The Berkeley Beacon student newspaper has apologized for a recent editorial that compared a proposal by Boston City Council President Michael Ross to Nazi-style policies. Aside from acknowledging that its editorial was “hyperbolic and flippant,”the paper admitted that it didn’t not know that Ross is the son of a Holocaust survivor. In last week’s editorial, [...]
My Columbia Journalism Review online column for this week looks at unreliable sources. An excerpt is below; click on the headline to read the full column. Sources of Error He spoke with a polished English accent, once shared a crème brûlée torte with Hillary Clinton, and spent part of the summer officiating tennis at the [...]
