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An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of Herman Cain as McCain. Link Thanks, Dave!  Report an error

An editor’s note from the Middletown Press: A staff-written article that appeared on MiddletownPress.Com Oct. 26 and in the print edition of the Middletown Press Oct. 27 contained significant portions that were identical to a previously published article reported by Middletown Patch. This violates both our policies at The Middletown Press, Journal Register Company and [...]

The Practical Traveler column last Sunday, about safaris in Africa, misidentified one of the animals that make up the Big Five, which many visitors hope to see there. The Big Five consist of the elephant, rhinoceros, lion, leopard and the African, or Cape, buffalo — not the water buffalo, which is not found in Africa. [...]

In our “Parable of Detroit” (October 22nd), we were a little unfair to note that there were “an awful lot of white faces” at Tech Town. The business accelerator points out that 65% of its new clients this year are from minorities, and that it has recently set up a fund for women- and minority-owned [...]

In yesterday’s Page 7 story about Jeremy Clarkson, a picture of his wife, Frances Clarkson, was wrongly captioned as Alexandra Hall, the presenter’s former wife.  Report an error

The Barrow Journal article on Oct. 17, about the fall subsistence whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska, misstated a greeting exchanged between the captain of a crew that killed a whale and a crowd onshore. They shouted ”aarigaa” at each other — an Inupiaq word meaning ”very good.” The captain did not shout, and the crowd [...]

An apology sent out by email to members of the IEEE and readers of its weekly Tech Alert email newsletter: Dear Members and Readers, Please accept our sincere apologies for the headline in today’s Tech Alert: “With the Arduino, Now Even Your Mom Can Program.” The actual title of the article is “The Making of [...]

In the Irish Independent Sports Section on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 allegations were published about a person, whom we now know as Oliver Scully of Kilkeeran, Portarlington, Co Offaly. The Irish Independent unreservedly apologies for any impression given of any improper behaviour, misconduct or otherwise on the part of Mr Scully, who was a mentor [...]

The Guardian published articles about Aston Villa which contained a number of inaccuracies that might have led some readers to believe that Martin O’Neill’s management of the football club cost “phenomenal” sums of money with very little by way of success and that as a result he was justifiably dismissed without compensation. We accept that [...]

“The 10-year revolution that has put food at the heart of our national conversation” (In Focus, 16 October, page 32) was wrong to claim that before the “British food renaissance” of the past decade food writers such as Jane Grigson only “found an outlet in women’s magazines or specialist books”. Paul Levy, our award-winning food [...]

A story in Saturday’s Real Deal section suggested that a fun thing to do for Halloween is to write “poison” on a plastic jar or bottle and fill it with candy for the kids to eat. A picture that accompanied the story showed a skull and crossbones image similar to the symbol used to indicate [...]

Leslie Plommer is an associate editor in the office of the Guardian readers editor (ombudsman). She occasionally fills in for the editor by taking over the weekly column, as she did last weekend. Plommer shared a bit of news about the paper’s print corrections column, and announced a new webpage dedicated to accuracy and standards. [...]

An advisory issued by Reuters on Friday: Please be advised that the Oct 27 Moscow story headlined “Chechen teen diary a bitter tale of bombs and survival” has been withdrawn because, though it included original reporting, it is too similar to a piece already published by The Guardian on the same subject to be appropriate [...]

Poynter highlights what appears to be a case of visual plagiarism by Urban Tulsa cartoonist David Simpson: The cartoonosphere is buzzing with talk of a new editorial cartoon published on Monday, Oct. 24, by The Urban Tulsa’s David Simpson. DailyCartoonist.com editor Alan Gardner says it looks a lot like an old editorial cartoon by the [...]

Our article “Chelsea hit by Essien blow on first day back” (9 July 2011) suggested that the Chelsea’s then Medical Director, Dr Bryan English, had been sacked by the club because his medical staff failed correctly to diagnose injuries to key players. We now accept that these allegations were untrue and apologise to Dr English [...]

A REPORT was published in the Carmarthen Journal dated October 12 headlined Farmer in tirade after officers visit over sewage spill. In the report it was stated that Robert Adrian Maskell was arrested. This was not the case. We are happy to clarify and apologise for any distress or embarrassment caused. The report said that [...]

ON PAGE 13 of last week’s edition of the Cornish Guardian (October 19) a court report concerning former Fifteen restaurant apprentice chef Kieran Charles Leverett was accompanied by a photograph captioned with his name. It has been pointed out that the person in the photograph was not the defendant but a Mr Jake Joynes. We [...]

Not long ago, Rajinder Singh was hailed as a hero by the French press. It now appears that was an erroneous distinction, not that media in the country have stepped up to correct the earlier assertions. Time magazine has an interesting account of the affair, and Stinky Journalism also put together a great summary. (I [...]

An obituary on Saturday about John M. Blum, the presidential historian and author of an influential biography of Theodore Roosevelt, referred incorrectly to Roosevelt’s family. His wife and mother died in 1884, but his daughter Alice, who was born that year, lived until 1980. Roosevelt did not lose ”his wife, newborn daughter and mother in [...]

In “Behind the Scenes” (October) we made an unfortunate joke about CKUA’s funding drive. We apologize for this ill-advised humour and regret any false impression it may have created. CKUA is a responsible steward of its listeners’ donations; gifts are used wisely and ethically towards the production of original and unique programming. Money generated during [...]

Describing Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramics biennial a piece said that “Portmeirion’s Staffordshire factory . . . now produces 140,000 pots a day”. That should have been 140,000 pots a week (Stoke inspired as it reclaims china trade from far east, 3 October, page 11). In an Oct. 21 story about the 1940 massacre of Polish officers and [...]

In an Oct. 18 story about the Scream Awards, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of Pee-wee Herman as Pee Wee. Link  Report an error

From the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier: The Post-Courier wishes to sincerely apologise to Justice Les Gavara-Nanu, for the undue stress and embarrassment caused to him, following the publication of our report entitled “courthouse bomb scare a hoax”. In our report published on the October 19, 2011, we said “in court room 4, Justice Les Gavara-Nanu [...]

The former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross was described in a column as having “hurled the nearest chair to the floor” during a meeting at Downing Street about crime policy. To clarify, he was not acting intemperately but used a chair to make the point that most crime is impulsive. The article went on to say [...]

An Oct. 21 article about the closure of Pusateri’s Fine Foods at Avenue Rd. and Lawrence Ave. W. incorrectly stated that Salvatore Pusateri, who opened the store in 1963, is dead. In fact, he is alive, though he no longer runs Pusateri’s. Link  Report an error