In the Talk interview in the Magazine this weekend, Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s fourth wife, disputes an account by Gay Talese in a 1966 Esquire article, in which he described Sinatra’s toupees and the woman who cared for them. In taking issue with those details, Barbara Sinatra said her husband always employed men to care [...]
Alicia Shepard just finished her stint as NPR ombudsman, and her final blog post included this recommendation: Hire someone to handle corrections. Between May 19 and May 27, apparently there were no mistakes made on NPR. I simply do not believe that. What I do believe is that the folks in charge of corrections have [...]
From a post on The Editor’s Log, a blog by John Robinson the editor of the News& Record of Greensboro, North Carolina: In our Guilford County’s Most Wanted feature in Monday’s paper, we wrote that Michael Healy was wanted by Greensboro Police for failure to appear on several drug-related charges. That information came from the [...]
Incorrect information about Jake Morgenstern was submitted and published in the May 25 Kanawha Valley Neighbors “Your Neighbors” feature. We apologize for the error. Report an error
Alcohol and pregnancy: In our report on advice to pregnant women to abstain from alcohol because it could harm unborn babies, National Health and Medical Research Council post-doctoral research fellow Colleen O’Leary was attributed as saying there were risks to brain development based on moderate drinking three to four standard drinks a day (Abstinence urged [...]
