After a few months of working together and lining up some partners, Scott Rosenberg of of MediaBugs and I today launched the Report an Error Alliance. This initiative aims to move news organizations of all shapes and sizes towards a common standard for online error reporting. The goal is to ensure more mistakes get corrected, [...]
On Saturday, November 20, 2010 the Kuwait Times published an article titled 'Multi ministry camera ban frustrates artists' in which incorrect information was provided. The newspaper regrets failing to verify the information. The article wrongly stated that a ban on DSLR cameras was implemented by the Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance. This information [...]
In yesterday's edition, we incorrectly published a photograph of Brian Arkins, pictured above, in connection with a report about a court case in which serious criminal convictions were recorded against John Patterson (54) of Mourne Road, Drimnagh, Dublin. Our picture caption incorrectly described Mr Arkins as Mr Patterson. Mr Arkins has no connection whatsoever with [...]
In an article in our edition of November 18, we reported that the businessman Donal Kinsella had been awarded EUR10m libel damages by a High Court jury against Kenmare Resources Plc, over a press release issued by that company. In that article we stated that the press release "followed an incident in which he had [...]
An apology from the editor of the Montclair Times: I apologize for The Times interfering in the jury selection of a murder trial on Nov. 16, and for The Times not reporting on this interference in its print edition of Nov. 18. The Montclair Times is covering the trial in Essex County Superior Court of [...]
ON SATURDAY, November 13, The Daily Telegraph issued a statement in relation to the latest quarterly ABC newspaper circulation audit. In this statement we stated paid sales of The Daily Telegraph on Saturday had overtaken those of The Sydney Morning Herald for the very first time. This was calculated by excluding education, event, airline/hotels and [...]
Our profile of Claudia Winkleman, ("The quirky charm of TV's new film buff", Comment, 14 November, page 38), described her mother, Eve Pollard, as "Britain's first female Fleet Street editor" but several women preceded her, not least Rachel Beer, editor of this newspaper from 1891 to 1903. Link Report an error
On 21 July 2010 we published an article about terrorism in the UK which included photographs of eight men with the caption: "Liquid bomb plot – 2006". We wish to make it clear that one of those pictured, Donald Stewart-Whyte, right, was acquitted of all terrorism-related charges. We apologise for any distress caused by the [...]
Iraqi cleric: An article in the Nov. 26 Section A about the rising influence of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr said the last U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Iraq at the end of 2001. It should have said 2011. Link Report an error
The Independent (U.K.) is taking a lot of heat, and deservedly so, after making a major front page error this week. Here's the offending page, via the Guardian: The man in the image is reportedly Ljubomir Jurkovic. Here's how Croatian Times described the different between him and the man the Independent was talking about: Although [...]
On the Fourth of July, 2004, the daily newspaper of Lexington, Ky., issued an unusual correction. "It has come to the editor's attention," the notice began, "that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission." What I relish about this "correction" — which appeared on the front page and continued [...]
The obituary for Jammie Duggan that ran in Friday, November 19th's edition of the Austin American-Statesman ran in error. Jammie Duggan is alive and well. We apologize for this error. Link Report an error
It falls to this column to de-honour Ian Richardson CBE, the actor posthumously knighted in a story and caption yesterday (Richardson has final resting place in row A, page 9). Link Report an error
A "correction and retraction" from Crikey, a popular site in Australia: Last Wednesday, in a work commemorating the impending nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Crikey cartoonist First Dog on the Moon used the registered service mark of The Franklin Mint. Crikey has now removed The Franklin Mint registered trademark and would like to [...]
IN Saturday's Evening Post we printed a photograph of a man in connection with a court case involving a disturbance after the Swansea V Cardiff football match on November 7 last year. The caption stated that the man pictured was Kevin Richards, one of the defendants. This was in fact incorrect. The man pictured was [...]
Royal roundup: Readers asked if we were correct in saying – Two houses, quite unalike, 17 November, page 7 – that Kate Middleton would be the "first commoner to marry a prince in close proximity to the throne since Anne Hyde was smuggled in at midnight to marry the man who became James II in [...]
In a column in Thursday's Spectator, three inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre in the same cell block as convicted murderer Johnson Aziga gave false names to a reporter. Some of the comments were wrongly attributed to John Bailey. While Bailey is an inmate, he is not on the cell block where Aziga is held. [...]
An article on Page 4 of Wednesday's Local section about an IRS inquiry into the Miccosukee Tribe's gambling profits was accompanied by an incorrect photograph of former Miccosukee tribal chairman Billy Cypress. The incorrect photograph depicted the late Billy L. Cypress of the Seminole Tribe, who founded the museum that holds the largest collection of [...]
IN yesterday's edition of The Cairns Post, it was wrongly reported that Mr Bob Harris was flying with another man in a four-seat Cessna 172 when it crashed about 20kms southwest of Mt Coleridge, near Innisfail. Mr Harris was not flying in the plane which crashed. Mr Harris' flight school business and Hinchinbrook Air Services [...]
In the Feedback item "Current Home Loan Bank System Works," on page 8 of the Nov. 17 issue, an editing error caused the omission of the word "not" in this sentence: "While these are worthy goals, they should not be done at the expense of the mission the banks serve so well today." Link Report [...]
On Nov. 4, Anderson Cooper did the country a favor. He expertly deconstructed on his CNN show the bogus rumor that President Obama’s trip to Asia would cost $200 million a day. This was an important “story.” It underscored just how far ahead of his time Mark Twain was when he said a century before [...]
… Most newspapers have longstanding policies on how errors are corrected in print, but if you ask editors and reporters about online corrections in their own newsrooms, you likely will get as many answers as people you ask. … Mobile sites and apps for smartphones and devices like the iPad bring yet another dimension to [...]
Some of the best web journalists around gather on Twitter every Wednesday at 8 ET for #wjchat. As the @wjchat Twitter bio explains: #wjchat is a chat for web journalists on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. PDT. We talk about all things content, technology, ethics, & business of journalism on the web. You can look at [...]
While at the Online News Association conference in Washington a couple of weeks ago, I got a chance to spend some time with my friend David Cohn. David is one of my favorite people in journalism. He's the founder of Spot.Us, the excellent crowdfunded journalism platform, and we first met several years ago when we [...]
In early editions an article carried the headline, First amendment does protect assisting suicide, judge rules (11 November, page 26). The article said the opposite: that a US judge had ruled that speech that aids the suicide of another was not protected by the constitution's first amendment on free speech. Link Report an error
