ON 16 August, 2009, we published an article concerning well known businessman, Gary McCausland, which wrongly suggested that Mr McCausland may have tried to renege on his parental responsibilities and that he failed in his obligation to pay child maintenance. We accept that Mr McCausland honoured his legal and parental duties, and that it was [...]
Irish broadcaster RTÉ issued an apology late last week that attempts to make up for a report that wrongly accused a priest of raping a minor and fathering a child as a result of that crime. After the report aired in May, Kevin Reynolds, the priest in question, was removed from his post with the [...]
Headlined Fast Eddie, friend to the famous, swaps Portland Place mansion for a prison cell, a piece about a fraud verdict featured a photo of self-styled “Lord” Eddie Davenport with his girlfriend and “their husky puppy”. As a reader noted, the foxy looking puppy showed every sign of being a shiba inu, not a husky, [...]
A report from TheJournal.ie: THE IRISH EXAMINER has suspended one of its weekly columnists over serious allegations of plagiarism. Steven King, the newspaper’s regular international affairs writer, is accused of lifting lengthy passages for his columns from several sources, including British-based blog Spiked, website Salon.com and Commentary Magazine. The newspaper’s editor Tim Vaughan tweeted this [...]
Charles Apple, who writes a great blog about visual journalism for the American Copy Editors Society, spotted a major apology in the Northern Star, the student paper at the Northern Illinois University. The apology is for an offensive cartoon that made reference to shootings that occurred at the school in 2008. Apple has the offending [...]
This clarification from India’s Early Times is amazing and one of a kind: This is to inform our esteemed readers that certain unscrupulous elements, out of sheer frustration and jealously, have created a fake e-mail ID early.timesnewss@gmail.com This e-mail ID is being used to send fake mails containing news reports published in Early Times. The [...]
The original version of this story erroneously reported that singer Stevie B was hauled off stage during a concert at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass., and arrested for failure to pay child support. Police said he was arrested after his show, as he was leaving the arena. The original article saying he was arrested [...]
An article in The Age on September 26 suggested that Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has controlled the world’s biggest aluminium empire since winning a mafia showdown in the 1990s, and that he succumbed to political demands in order to continue running this business. The Age accepts that Mr Deripaska’s acquisition of the business was not [...]
See my previous post about the mistakes made by the Daily Mail, the Sun and others. After being criticized and mocked for publishing an online article that declared Amanda Knox had been found guilty of murder, the Daily Mail published a story to explain what happened. The paper apologized for the mistake, and also noted [...]
AN article on 16 August reported that Manchester United footballer Tom Cleverley had begged a girl for sex after meeting her at a night club, even though he was dating a Page 3 model. In fact, entirely unknown to the girl it now transpires that the man involved, who looked like Tom Cleverley, was impersonating [...]
Patrick LaForge’s official title at the New York Times is editor of news presentation. In a practical sense, he oversees the copy desks at the paper. (His Twitter account is also worth a follow.) I met LaForge in person in the spring when I gave an error prevention workshop at the Times. (I offered to [...]
Reading the coverage leading up to — and during! — today’s Apple iPhone event, you’d be forgiven if you thought Apple had an iPhone 5. It doesn’t. The new phone is the iPhone 4S. And yet look at all of this iPhone 5 language in Google News: The live blogs were some of the worst [...]
Update Oct. 5, 2011: The Daily Mail apologized for its mistake. Read more here. One of the ways news organizations prepare for a big news event is to produce some canned copy. Write it up ahead of time, and just use it when ready. Such was the case for the Amanda Knox verdict, which came [...]
Editor’s Note; An earlier version of this story included a comment erroneously attributed to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, criticizing the White House’s efforts at political messaging. Newsweek and The Daily Beast regret the error. The above editor’s note was placed atop a piece by Howard Kurtz.The original version of his story included this quote [...]
A Spokesman of Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) on Wednesday contradicted the story published in a section of the press captioned Pakistan will be forced to retaliate, quoting CIA chief. The spokesman said that the contents of the story and remarks attributed to DG ISI are factually incorrect and misleading. Media should refrain from speculative [...]
In our edition of July 3, we published an article that referred to a court case in 2004 that has become known as the Annabel’s Trial. The article made factual assertions about Brooke McVeagh in connection with that trial and the circumstances giving rise to the trial.We accept that these factual assertions were based on [...]
An apology published by the Financial Mail of South Africa: An investigation by the FM has revealed that certain sections of the article “Dilemma about horns”, which was part of the magazine’s cover story titled “War on rhinos” in the September 9 edition of the magazine, were copied from a Bloomberg Businessweek article titled “Saving [...]
