IN AN article on June 28, The Times referred to Zimbabwean businessman John Bredenkamp’s “frozen seafood company, Breco” as one of the companies blacklisted by the US Department of Treasury for his alleged links to President Robert Mugabe. It has been brought to The Times’ attention that one of Bredenkamp’s companies, trading only in South [...]
In an article about Sky TV buying rights to programmes by the US cable television broadcaster HBO we said that the actor David Morrissey had approached Sky and the BBC with an idea for a dramatisation based on novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne – but ended up accepting Sky’s offer “for fear that the [...]
In a story Aug. 2 about the Census of Marine Life, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the 15,374 species in the Gulf of Mexico amount to 10 per square kilometer. The correct figure is one per 100 square kilometers. Link Report an error
A news brief on Monday’s page 1, titled “Rugger overexposed in newspaper,” appears to have been wrong. What looked like a penis hanging out of a rugby player’s shorts in a Press-Republican sports photo now seems to be the shadow of the player’s hand on his thigh. Press-Republican Editor Bob Grady said he and his [...]
On July 28, ESPN removed from its Web site a story about Lebron James and a party in Las Vegas, written by ESPNLosAngeles.com’s Arash Markazi, due to reporting concerns. The story was not linked directly on either ESPN.com or ESPNLosAngeles.com but was available via search engines for roughly 9.5 hours. In a statement, ESPN vice [...]
OUR article of 9 October 2009 falsely alleged that throughout a 23 day hunger strike, Mr Parameswaran Subramanyam secretly ate takeaway burgers when dishonestly claiming he was on hunger strike in support of Sri Lankan Tamils, in a campaign which was policed at considerable expense and caused the police to waste public money. We now [...]
An article on July 21 about David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, and his austerity measures to slash the national budget, misstated the number of unemployed people in the country. It is 2.5 million, not 8 million. The article also misstated the government portion of the total work force in Britain. It is 21.1 percent, [...]
IN our free supplement “Britain’s worst serial killers” on 17 April 2010 and online we stated that the publisher of the James Maybrick Diary had admitted forging the diary. We now accept that this is untrue and we are happy to make clear that the publisher has never admitted to forging it. We apologise to [...]
A report last Saturday, quoting Fine Gael TD Lucinda Creighton concerning party and personal fundraisers, referred to Michael O Flynn of the O Flynn Group in differentiating between developers who were or were not in Nama. The Irish Timesis satisfied that the article may have wrongly implied that Mr O Flynn was other than upstanding [...]
The Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen was listed under the heading “New Scandinavian crime writers” (Books, 18 July) but neither Finland nor Estonia is in Scandinavia. Link Report an error
