The New York Times reports that Theodore C. Sorensen, "a close adviser and counselor to John F. Kennedy for 11 years," died today at the age of 82. But the paper's otherwise interesting and comprehensive obit omits one noteworthy detail. Sorensen is famous for his work with Kennedy, but he also earned a legendary place [...]
Just a quick note to say I'm at the Online News Association Conference currently getting underway in Washington, D.C. If you're a reader of the site, please make sure to say hello in person. (This is what I look like.) And on a related note, I won't be posting new content tomorrow. -Craig Report an [...]
The Tuesday edition of the Metro paper in Boston played up a recent Daily Beast survey that ranked the intelligence of different U.S. cities: Actually. Boston was ranked first overall. The paper tucked a small correction at the bottom of page two in yesterday's paper: But shouldn't a big front page error like that be [...]
An answer in the Q&A column on Oct. 19 about the hazards of hail misstated the year that a hailstorm in India caused 246 deaths. It was 1888, not 1988. Link Report an error
From Politico: When it comes to typos and spelling, everyone makes mistakes… even the White House. In a White House press release sent Tuesday evening, there's a misspelling, and it's a big one: The first lady's first name. "Michele and I are deeply saddened by the loss of life, injuries, and damage that have occurred [...]
A report from the official Manchester United website: The Sunday Times of Malta has issued an apology to club captain Gary Neville after it misquoted the Reds club captain in its most recent edition. Neville, who contributes a regular column in the publication, has been taken to task over comments apparently aimed at United's crosstown [...]
A story on Page B1 Saturday about a court appeal by Hyde Park Baptist Church incorrectly reported the marital status of the plaintiffs. The story identified Terry Curtis as the ex-husband of Tara Turner. Curtis and Turner are married. Link Report an error
New York Post columnist John Podhoretz dedicated the lion's share of a column to an apology for calling New York gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis a hooker. But after the first few sentences of it, it seems pretty clear that this is really a pseudo-apology meant to mention "Kristin Davis" and "hooker" as many times as [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about Sam Brownback’s campaign for governor of Kansas referred incorrectly to his status as a United States Senator. He is a current — not former — senator. Link Report an error
The photo caption accompanying a front-page picture Thursday misplaced the city of Edinburgh. Although part of Great Britain, Edinburgh is in Scotland, not England. Link Report an error
A report from Japan's Mainichi Daily: The Asahi Shimbun national daily has apologized for running a story closely resembling one dispatched by the major news agency Kyodo News. "We couldn't complain if we're accused of plagiarizing the Kyodo story," a high-ranking official of the Asahi Shimbun's Osaka headquarters said. A 47-year-old reporter who wrote the [...]
An Oct. 20 headline in our tech-science section erroneously reported an Apple product announcement. Link Report an error
In stories Oct. 21-23 about the wedding of Russell Brand and Katy Perry, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the couple had given the exclusive coverage rights to a London magazine. Representatives for the couple said Sunday no such deal was in place. The representatives also said the couple were not wearing traditional Indian clothing [...]
If you're a would-be plagiarist looking for a place to pilfer, I'd advise you to think twice before stealing from Slate. Two years ago, Slate's Jody Rosen busted a Texas weekly for plagiarizing. And last week, another Slate writer, Grady Hendrix, revealed publicly that his work has been stolen by a magazine, India Today. Both [...]
An article about the popularity of a collagen drink in China was accompanied by a photograph showing an advertisement written in Japanese (Drink those wrinkles away . . ., 18 October, page 3, G2). Link Report an error
Our article, 'Warring tigers,escaping birds, marauding snakes: it's chaos at London Zoo' (16 October 2010) referred to a report following an informal zoo inspection which took place in July 2009 . The title suggested that the matters were current not historical, and so was misleading as many of the issues highlighted in the report had [...]
In this column on the state of sexuality in America, I mistakenly quoted Nicole Queathem as the author of a mock thesis rating the sexual performance of student athletes. The real author was Karen Owen, while Nicole was only quoted by the New York Times commenting on the thesis. I not only apologize here for [...]
… the Post regularly prints letters either on the editorial page or in the "Free For All" page on Saturdays that point out errors, but then does not actually print a correction on A2 or append a correction to the article online. For example, the Post still has "Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens" as the [...]
An article in The Age on October 15 stated that a Monash University study found that more than 87 per cent of people shot dead by police in the past 30 years had a mental illness. The actual number was one third of those killed had a mental illness. The report found that 87.5 per [...]
Sometimes, we make mistakes, and we're owning up to this one. Last week, a story ran on our website about the City of Portage la Prairie running out of money to finish work cleaning out the lime and sludge of the city's wastewater treatment tanks. After talking with a worker and the owner of [...]
In our HTML version of last week's SNCJ, we noted that Iowa had ended their fiscal year with a $755 budget surplus. This was supposed to say $755 million. We regret the error. Link (at bottom of page) Report an error
In a story Oct. 15 about a mistake in Chicago's electronic voting machines, The Associated Press erroneously reported the way a gubernatorial candidate's name appears on a ballot review touch-screen. The screen lists the candidate as "R. Whitey," not "Rich Whitey" as the AP reported. The candidate is Rich Whitney of Illinois' Green Party. Chicago [...]
In the headline of an Oct. 14, story The Associated Press reported a woman was stabbed at a Bellevue College anger management class. College spokesman Bob Adams says the classroom was rented by a court services agency. >Link Report an error
Bell councilman: In the Oct. 13 Section A, a profile of Lorenzo Velez, the only Bell City Council member not charged with a crime, described Bell as "a city dominated by blue-color Mexican immigrants like himself." It should have said "blue-collar." Link Report an error
Last week Arthur Brisbane, the new public editor of the New York Times, posted an illuminating exchange between a reader of the paper and one of its top editors. The reader asked: What’s with the way stories change all the time on the website? “How does the newspaper of record handle this? I read something, [...]
