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Adam Ant’s new band is the Good, the Bad and the Lovely Posse, not the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Posse, an unintended slight that appeared in a review (Adam Ant, 26 May, page 44). Link  Report an error

An excerpt of a report from Stinky Journalism about an incident involving a Kenyan newspaper: South African newspaper The Standard corrected its report that $10 million cash was lost in a Kenyan airport — well, sort of. StinkyJournalism wrote last month about The Standard’s $10 million cash story after a Kenyan journalist, Dennis Itumbi, called [...]

Patrick B. Pexton, the Washington Post’s new ombudsman, hasn’t been on the job long but he’s already written about an incident of plagiarism at the paper. Here’s the editor’s note that was added to the offending piece: This article in the April 17 Travel section included material that was taken without attribution from a documentary [...]

There are 9,000 condo corporations in Ontario. A May 25 article about issues at the condo located at 40 Panorama Court in Toronto incorrectly stated there are 9,000 condos in Ontario. Link  Report an error

In the story headlined “Rita Fan reignites Article 23 debate” on page C3 yesterday, we wrongly stated that former legislator Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai had insisted Article 23 of the Basic Law was “a monster as imagined by many”. What Fan actually said is that Article 23 is “not … a monster as imagined by [...]

Give prisoners a chance to help the community, read the heading on a piece (16 May, G2, page 3) which went on to make passing mention of Broadmoor in Berkshire, describing this high-security institution as a “hospital for the criminally insane”. However, the West London Mental Health NHS Trust points out: “While all patients at [...]

A pull-quote accompanying the winter review of Haya Molnar’s book Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood m [sic] Communist Romania should have read “I wish the world would stop hating Jews because I’m still the same person I was before I knew I was Jewish.” In an unfortunate typo, the pull-quote that ran [...]

“Secret tapes, Coulson’s exit and the riddle of the story that won’t go away” (In Focus, 23 January) reported claims from sources that, owing to a “growing drink problem”, former News of the World journalist Ray Chapman “started secretly taping conversations with his colleagues and editors” and that these tapes might assist in confirming allegations [...]

Statements contained in an article published on 7 March, headed “Babies who are born at 23 weeks should be left to die, says NHS chief”, were wrongly attributed to Dr Daphne Austin, who is a medical consultant specialist employed by the NHS. They were made in a programme in which Dr Austin participated and were [...]

A correction to a story about MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and his recent outburst in which he called Laura Ingraham a “slut”: A typo in the first publication of this post had Schultz calling Ingraham a right wing “slug.” It was fixed. We regret the error. Link  Report an error

An obituary on Tuesday about the songwriter and filmmaker Joseph Brooks misstated Mr. Brooks’s role in the production of the movie “Eddie and the Cruisers.” He was a producer and musical adviser; he did not write the score, which was written by John Cafferty. (This error also appeared in an article about Mr. Brooks on [...]

An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the fashion Web site Fashism as Fascisms. Link  Report an error

A chart accompanying “Fund bags HK$24b on back of market rise” on B1 yesterday incorrectly showed a profit of HK$2.9 billion in bond income from Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund in the first quarter of this year. It should have shown a loss of HK$2.9 billion.  Report an error

Photograph: A May 20 letter to the editor incorrectly said a conservative Israeli newspaper digitally scrubbed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from a photo of Obama administration officials monitoring the raid on Osama bin Laden. The newspaper that altered the photo is based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Link  Report an error

A story about politics and the Lower Colorado River Authority on Page D1 Sunday contained several errors. It misstated how long Tom Mason has been general manager at the LCRA; he has held that job for 31/2 years. It gave an incorrect first name for Donna Nelson, currently on the Public Utility Commission, who was [...]

On May 15 we said Tim Henman was being paid £200,000 by the BBC for commentating at Wimbledon this year. In fact we have been informed that his fee will be substantially less than that. We apologise for the mistake and are happy to set the record straight. Link Via Tabloid Watch.  Report an error

An article on page 1 of Tuesday’s A section incorrectly described obstetrician-gynecologist Albert Triana’s policy on accepting obese patients. He does accept obese patients. His practice does not decline patients based on weight, he said Tuesday. Link Thanks, Tiffany!  Report an error

A computer security expert featured prominently in a recent Vanity Fair story about a major computer virus has accused the article’s author, Michael Joseph Gross, of manipulating facts and painting an inaccurate picture of his personality. Gawker has a nice summary of the blog post by Ralph Langner. Here’s an example of the kind of [...]

During the 1990s conflict in the Balkans, Serbian state broadcaster Radio Televizija Srbi (RTS) was basically transformed into a propaganda outlet. In order to try and repair the damage, the organization issued an apology on Monday. An excerpt: During the unfortunate events of the 1990s, Radio-Television Belgrade and Radio-Television Serbia in many instances in their [...]

A Reuters error noted by Reuters’ own Good, Bad & Ugly blog:  Report an error

An obituary on Sunday about William Pennington, a pioneer in Nevada’s casino industry, misstated the date of his death. He died on Sunday, May 15 — not this Sunday. Link  Report an error

A correction from China’s official Xinhua News Service: In the title, please read “Iceland volcano ash cloud disrupts domestic aviation”, instead of “Ireland volcano ash cloud disrupts domestic aviation”. Link  Report an error

From my latest column for Columbia Journalism Review, here are my five suggestions for how news ombudsmen can make themselves essential in today’s newsroom: 1. Build Your Blog – Many ombudsmen, especially those at newspapers, write a regular column. This used to be the most visible, tangible benefit of an ombudsman. Going forward, the column [...]

This just in: Lt. M. K. Schwenk’s first name was Milton, not Melton, as his obituary said. In 1899. His great-nephew, Dr. Daniel A. F. Schwenk, a retired dentist from Walpole, N.H., wrote to The Times last month, pointing out what he said were several errors in the 264-word obituary published on June 29, 1899. [...]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, is posting a $5 million bond as part of a package to gain his release from jail. In some editions Friday, a front-page What’s News item incorrectly gave the amount as $5 billion. Link  Report an error