Earlier today, this correction was added to the online version of the explosive Guardian article that helped push phone hacking back into the news, and ultimately sink the News of the World: An article about the investigation into the abduction and death of Milly Dowler (News of the World hacked Milly Dowler’s phone during police [...]
ON December 6 under the headline Xmas dinner Is On pounds 1m Lotto Win Coach, we wrongly reported that Mr Paul Trainor (right) had won a pounds 1million Lottery prize. In fact the prize was won by another person. Mr Trainor does not work at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, nor did he [...]
After Caolan Mulrooney, a 19 year-old student in Cork, Ireland, went missing after a night out with friends, the community rallied together to look for him. The search was still on this past Sunday when the Irish Mail on Sunday reported that Mulrooney had been found dead. In fact, his body wasn’t found until a [...]
Our article, “The Acton Spring? How unrest in Syria spilled over into the respectable streets of West London” (4 November 2011) referred to a “classified 2008 cable from the then-US chargé d’affaires to Damascus released by Wikileaks this year”. The cable named Dr Fawaz Akhras as a suspected avenue used by the Syrian President Bashar [...]
Here’s a forthright and detailed apology from the editor of the Anniston Star: A newspaper story dutifully crossing its “T’s” and dotting its “I’s” can be a powerful tool in a community, a force for tremendous good. When it gets key facts wrong, however, it can inflict tremendous harm. In the case of one Tuesday [...]
Here’s a case study in how a story can spread far and wide, causing anger and frustration for the person at the heart of the tale. I became aware of it thanks to this rather vague correction in the Guardian: A Weekend magazine article about a woman who for part of her working life dresses [...]
IN the Buletin Utama report aired on 7.06.2007, the Nightline report aired on 8.06.2007 and the Buletin Pagi report aired on 8.06.2007, we TV3 reported about a suit brought by Syed Ahmad Tun Nasir and his wife, Syarifah Rugayah Binti Ahmad Alsagoff, against the prominent corporate figure, Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Halim bin Mohammad (“Tan [...]
A CBS affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. has apologized after it mistakenly announced live on air that Rev. Billy Graham had died. From a story about the mistake by the Charlotte Observer: WBTV (Channel 3) apologized Saturday to the Rev. Billy Graham after the station erroneously reported the evangelist’s death. Around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, a producer [...]
ON August 28, 2011, the Sunday Tasmanian published an article under the headline “Taxman tracks Missing Millions” which made serious allegations against Ben Gray, the managing director of TPG Capital Australia. Some readers understood that the article suggested that he was involved in draining away $1.5 billion from Australian bank accounts to a hidden tax [...]
In the Thursday edition of The Greenville News, someone added a vulgar word to a wire story inside the Sports section. We are saddened by this and assure everyone that we will deal appropriately with it. We apologize to our readers and the reporter whose name appeared over the story. John Pittman, executive editor Link [...]
A PICTURE accompanying our story about window cleaner Graeme Dust,who was jailed for six years for trying to have his wife NIna killed, was not of her but was, in fact, a photograph of a person with no involvement in the case. A normally reliable agency supplied the photograph of a lady we have since [...]
My main job at the moment is as editorial director of OpenFile, an online news organization operating in six Canadian cities. Late yesterday afternoon, I spent about an hour helping draft a blog post that would offer an apology and explanation for readers about why we had to remove a story just a few minutes [...]
The office of the Press Ombudsman has directed The Sunday Independent to apologise to Credit Ombudsman Manie van Schalkwyk for falsely stating in a sub-headline that he was being investigated for corruption. Van Schalkwyk lodged a complaint with the Press Ombudsman about a story headlined “Hawks investigate complaints – Allegations of a conflict of interest [...]
IN court yesterday the Daily Star apologised to Garry Tweedy for an article published on April 13 in which we incorrectly reported that Mr Tweedy had admitted on his Facebook profile that he had been to prison a few times. We accepted that Mr Tweedy did not post this comment, nor has he ever been [...]
James Schugel, a reporter with the local CBS affiliate in Minnesota, thought he had a big scoop: a market in New York City was selling dog meat, and some of the dogs were coming from his area. He’d been chasing down a story about a local puppy mill and came upon information that a number [...]
ON August 3 this year the Daily Mirror published an article regarding the death of Miss Catherine Zaks, aged 21, in Krakow, Poland. The article contained claims that Miss Zaks, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, abused drugs and had engaged in casual sex following the break-up of a long-term relationship. Miss Zaks’ parents have pointed out [...]
Here’s a retraction/apology from Daniel Avila, a policy advisor for Marriage and Family at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, for this recent column by him in the Boston Pilot: Statements made in my column, ‘Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction’ of October 28, do not represent the position of the United States Conference [...]
PJ Media thought they had a huge scoop about aspiring Republican nominee Herman Cain. It relied on unnamed sources. It talked about a woman going home with Cain and waking up in his bed the next morning. It cited a source who said she saw the two get into a taxi. Here’s the offending paragraph [...]
A few years ago, Slate exposed a Texas weekly called the Bulletin for being perhaps the first newspaper to pursue plagiarism as a standard operating procedure. The paper published article after article that had been stolen from elsewhere. It closed down soon after being outed. So what will happen to Reader Magazine, “Southern California’s best [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
