A HEADING on a report published in Tuesday’s Newcastle Herald said that a man was stabbed at a Hunter hotel. The hotel was named in the report as the Commercial Hotel at Morpeth. The Herald wants to clarify that the stabbing did not occur at the hotel. The man walked into the hotel with a [...]
A variety of media folks got caught up in a false rumor today, after word began to spread that CNN had suspended Piers Morgan. Martin Bryant has a good roundup at the Next Web: The latest example of ‘think before you retweet’ emerged today when a false rumor spread like wildfire that British journalist and [...]
… It has been my experience, after reporting from many locations around the world and working with others who do, that errors are more likely when covering foreign events and topics, as misspellings, misunderstandings, inaccurate references to professional titles, and poor or incorrect translations from other languages can lead to mistakes. Editors and fact-checkers in [...]
A July 16 Starweek photo accompanying a sports listing of golf coverage incorrectly identified the subject as Bernhard Langer, pictured here. In fact, the photo was of fellow German Martin Kayner. Link Report an error
MONDAY’S story “Children thrive on words” included a statement about the clothes and toys used by children at Hebersham Public School, attributed to a deputy principal, Deidre O’Brien. She did not use the words reported, and the article did not accurately paraphrase what she said. The Herald apologises to Ms O’Brien, the school and parents [...]
An Opinion article last Sunday about the increasing prevalence of droughts incorrectly described El Paso’s use of recycled sewage. The city uses recycled sewage for irrigation, construction and manufacturing and releases a small percentage of the sewage into a local aquifer, where it eventually mixes with groundwater and, after several years, is pumped and treated [...]
A sentence in a letter to the editor by Bernie Magnan on Monday should have read, “Over two-thirds of Canadian property and violent crimes are never reported,” but, owing to an editing error, did not. Report an error
Our article of May 7 2011 “8st kick-boxing WPC scares off thugs” included a photograph said to be that of Richard Chadwick who was convicted of an attack on six people in Leeds, including bursting into one home and threatening to kill the occupant’s baby. The photograph was actually of Mark O’Brien who has no [...]
We wish to apologise to Darach O’Scolai, the Irish language author and dramatist, for publishing incorrect figures concerning the sales of books authored by him in the Irish language over the past number of years. We regret any offence occasioned to Mr O’Scolai from the use of the incorrect figures in question. Report an error
Seattle Weekly published a remarkable cover story last week. Over the course of more than 6,000 words, it made the argument that true crime author Ann Rule made a series of mistakes and false conclusions in her book, Heart Full of Lies. The book tells the story of the shooting death of Oregon pilot Chris [...]
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In a July 18 “Politics,” David Weigel misstated the number of Rebuild the Dream house parties over the weekend of July 16. There were 1,600, not 15,000. Link Report an error
Stories – 15 May 2009 and 8 May 2010 – concerning the expenses and allowances of Shahid Malik when he was an MP incorrectly stated that he had paid a discounted rent on his constituency home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, and that his expenses claims were the highest of any MP. Mr Malik was later [...]
John Robinson, the editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina, just published a blog post that includes some interesting feedback from his readers. In a recent (unscientific) poll, members of the paper’s Readers Panel were asked a few questions related to corrections: I asked our Readers’ Panel whether publishing corrections hurts or [...]
It is hard to describe the interview that took place on KQED’s Forum show on May 25, 2011, as anything other than a train wreck. Osama bin Laden was dead, and Frank Lindh — father of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" — had been invited on to discuss a New York Times op-ed piece [...]
A report in the Nocturnalist column on Saturday misidentified the material used to create a puppet of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that made an appearance at an exhibition of Jim Henson’s work at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Muppets, in general, are made of fleece, foam, fake fur and fabric. A spokeswoman [...]
JUDGE? Marron QC. Following our report “Trial Off Because I’m On Hols” we now understand the judge’s holiday plans were cancelled before the trial was stopped and were not a factor in this decision. We are happy to make this clear. (page 25, July 15). Report an error
A June 15 article about a cargo sailboat docking in Brooklyn incorrectly stated the tonnage of bananas being carried by a nearby ship. The ship had 1,241 tons of bananas aboard, according to a port official; the article incorrectly said it was carrying 20,000 tons of bananas. Link Report an error
AN article in The Australian yesterday (“How Murphy’s law of trading brought brokers down”, Page 1) said Sydney lawyer Christopher Murphy sent an email stating “Bloody hell, we are being smashed” to Lirim Emini, then chief executive of Opes Prime Stockbroking, which demonstrated that Mr Murphy caused the collapse of Opes Prime. In fact, the [...]
Earlier this week the local CBS website for Philadelphia carried a report that people in that city could soon be ticketed for texting while walking. That initial article resulted in lots of coverage from places such as Gawker and Good Morning America. A screen grab from Google News shows some of the reports (and one [...]
On Monday July 18th, 2011, we posted the headline on our Homepage, “Cash cab host kills pedestrian.” The headline should have read “Cash Cab involved in fatal accident.” We take these matters very seriously and deeply regret the error. Link Here’s a related story that explains the incident in question. Thanks, Andrew! Report an error
In an item in “The Week in Arts” published on 25 June 2011 we incorrectly stated that the critic Ruth Leon had written a review for her husband Sheridan Morley of a play which she had not seen. We are told, and accept, that while she did indeed file the review mentioned for her husband, [...]
IN our article ‘eastenders extra’s killer to serve life’ we stated that Brian Atkinson, murderer of eastenders’ extra Kevlin eurie, had got eurie’s girlfriend pregnant. In fact it was the sister of one of eurie’s friends that was pregnant by Atkinson. We apologise for the mistake. (page 23, July 9). Report an error
In a story published in Thursday’s Tribune, The Associated Press reported erroneously that William Diaz-Wassmer had been convicted of raping, killing and robbing a Livingston woman and then setting her house on fire. Diaz-Wassmer was not convicted of rape. Link Report an error
Articles in the Guardian of Tuesday 12 July incorrectly reported that the Sun newspaper had obtained information on the medical condition of Gordon Brown’s son from his medical records. In fact the information came from a different source and the Guardian apologises for its error (The Brown files: How Murdoch papers targeted ex-PM’s family, 12 [...]
