IN our edition dated April 12, 2009, we reported that Thomas Tolan, below, a current inmate of Maghaberry prison was facing disciplinary proceedings having allegedly been found by prison officials to be in possession of hard core pornographic DVDs. It has been pointed out to us by Mr Tolan that he was not in fact [...]
The Sunday Times wishes to correct a number of inaccuracies in an article dealing with the Press Council last Sunday. The headline stating "Press Council attacks papers" was incorrect, and the statement that the chairman, Professor Tom Mitchell, had criticised two newspapers for not publishing decisions against them was also incorrect. There is no "stand-off" [...]
ON 11 April, 2008, in a report of a meeting of the Donegal Irish Farmers’ Association, addressed by Garda Sgt Paul Wallace on the subject of farm security published, we wrongly stated that Garda Wallace had commended Mayo farmer Padraig Nally for the way in which he defended his property. We accept that we mistook [...]
A G2 article called the censorship from Twitter of the hashtag (equivalent to a subject line) "Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy" the worst outrage against freedom of expression ever. We should have noted the explanation provided by Biz Stone, the founder of Twitter, for the problem users encountered searching for #MrsSlocombesPussy: a programming bug means that Twitter’s [...]
Reuters has made its internal Handbook for Journalists available to the public via the Internet. It posted the full document online and Dean Wright, Reuters’ global editor of ethics, innovation and news standards, wrote about it yesterday. (Romenesko spotted Wright’s post.) Here’s what Wright says about the Handbook: The handbook is the guidance Reuters journalists [...]
The July 7 article "GOP Has Big Manua to Climb in Hawaii" mentioned Honolulu City Councilman Duke Bainum as a possible Democratic candidate for Hawaii’s 1st district seat. Bainum died in June. Report an error
A college student interning at the Colorado Spring Gazette has been fired after the paper discovered she plagiarized from the New York Times in four recent articles. An editor’s note from the paper: On Tuesday I learned that The Gazette has published four news stories during the past month that contain passages that are substantially [...]
An article on June 30 about new state laws that encourage the recycling of old electronic equipment overstated what is currently known about whether toxic metals from nonrecycled electronics in American landfills leach into soil and groundwater. While many scientists and state environmental agencies warn that the potential for such leaching exists, the federal Environmental [...]
(See update at the bottom of this post.) A photographer whose work appeared in the New York Times Magazine has been accused of digitally manipulating his images. Edgar Martins produced a photo essay entitled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age." It showed abandoned buildings/construction projects and was featured in the magazine and on the Times [...]
Further to the reference in the paper on 14 June to Rebekah Wade allegedly hitting her first husband, Ross Kemp, after a "drinking bout" with David Blunkett, Mr Blunkett has been in touch to correct the record: "the alleged ‘drinking bout’ was a cup of tea at 5.30 in the evening (with witnesses including Rupert [...]
Welcome to Wales, a headline attempted to say in yesterday’s piece about the Ashes series opening in Cardiff (Croeso y Cymru: a top catch for Cardiff, page 9). That should have been Croeso i Gymru. What our version meant was Welcome the Wales. Link Report an error
A caption on Thursday’s story "Dying seconds that last forever” should not have said that video of the Palestinian boy and his father had been revealed to be fake. Debate continues on the veracity of the footage. Link Thanks, Steve! Report an error
UPDATE July 8 12:24 pm EST: I contacted Declan Varley, the group editor who oversees the Advertiser papers, and he has confirmed that the image below is a hoax. From his email: HI Craig, what a laugh but thankfully it was a hoax. You can check the paper online at www.advertiser.ie/mayo. You can be sure [...]
An advance story on Page 5B in Friday’s paper should have said slingshots for tossing water balloons or other objects are prohibited by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The same story should have said slingshots are not a parade tradition. Report an error
Michael Douglas: In a June 20 Op-Ed on Michael Douglas’ lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute, the name of his character in "Wall Street" was misspelled. It is Gordon Gekko, not Gordon Gecko. Link Report an error
A short item in a football roundup hinted at a £2m move to Middlesbrough for Serbian striker Rajko Purovic (Transfer talk, 11 June, page 4). This story was based on a web hoax. For reasons we have been unable to divine, it appeared in the paper under the byline of a reporter who was on [...]
Just over two years ago, the public editor of the Orlando Sentinel wrote a column alerting readers to the fact that the paper had experienced a spike in the number of corrections. He was clear about the cause of the increased errors: When the Sentinel tightened its financial belt back in June, it lost a [...]
Designer drug: Diprivan, the drug found in the late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s home, is a powerful anaesthetic (Sedative ‘in Jackson’s home’, page 19, July 4). We must have been artfully sedated to allow it to be dopily described in our paper as an "intravenous aesthetic". Report an error
Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Peter Bronson writes a blog called "Bronson is Always Right." It appears he takes the title a little too seriously. Here’s a post of his from this week: Last week I posted a blog about comedian Al Franken joining the Senate (here), including a picture of Franken wearing bunny ears and a [...]
An article in Thursday editions stated that Fouad Kaady, a 27-year-old man shot to death by police in 2005, had a history of mental illness. Police believe he was mentally ill and have since used his case to train for dealing with mentally ill subjects. However, the Kaady family says he had no history of [...]
WE would like to apologise for an error on our website earlier today whereby a headline incorrectly said that a motorcyclist who had been in an accident had died. This was not the case. In fact Kris Smart, 20, from Pinehurst, who broke his neck after crashing into a parked car in Poplar Avenue, Pinehurst, [...]
In the editing process a line was inserted in yesterday’s graphic of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, giving the average centre-to-centre distance from Earth to the moon as 52,500 miles (The moon shot: How they did it, page 14, G2 special issue). It is 238,857 miles. And to clarify references in an article, Apollo 11 [...]
AN ARTICLE IN Tuesday’s Daily News incorrectly stated that former Tyco chief executive Dennis Kozlowski was a substance abuser when he defrauded his company and investors. There is no credible evidence to support that statement. The story also misstated the amount of money involved in Kozlowski’s fraud on Tyco. It was $156 million. He also [...]
LAST Sunday, we published a story claiming sacked City trader Elliott Short, 22, had won £20 million in a year betting on horses. Short said he had won the money by taking bets from punters at online betting exchange Betfair. Betfair, while not commenting on individual accounts, say Mr Short’s claims were inaccurate and the [...]
This is an amusing corrections column from the Vancouver Courier: We like being alive. Really like it. Especially on a day when pop icons (and stalwarts of a distant childhood) Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson both shed this mortal coil. Sure, she became kind of kooky, and he became positively creepy, but like David Carradine [...]
