Thanks for being a regular reader. You can check out the award-winning Regret the Error book here.From AP: An independent Zimbabwe Sunday newspaper apologizes to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II for publishing a computer-doctored photograph showing the 83-year old monarch pregnant during news reports on a state visit earlier this month by the South African president. [...]
Monday’s story ‘‘Good crims, bad crims in the Cross’’ wrongly said that the co-author of a new book, the police informant Tony, had a role in helping to frame Phuong Ngo for the murder of John Newman. Thanks, Steve!
A headline appearing within a March 30 story about the Catholic church incorrectly attributed a statement about alleged sexual abuse to Pope Benedict XVI. The statement was made by a German priest writing in The Times of London. Link WebNewser has some background: Under the article, “Losing Their Religion? Catholicism in Turmoil,” the related content [...]
During my recent absence, there were a few notable incidents of plagiarism and fabrication. Here’s a quick round-up: Fabricated interviews. The New Yorker carried a trio of pieces about an Italian journalist caught fabricating a surprisingly large amount of interviews with famous writers. And a German magazine also admitted that it had published a fabricated [...]
I’m still traveling, but I couldn’t delay getting this apology on the site: The Tab would like to apologise to BBC Correspondent and former Newsround presenter Lizo Mzimba for making a considerable number of false and damaging allegations about Lizo’s professional and personal behaviour, in a series of articles published in October 2009. The Tab [...]
A story on January 13, “Suspect in $150m loan scam fronts court”, listed people said to have been charged as part of a fraud syndicate. In fact only seven of those listed in the article – Hiba Cornell, Ahmad Hamze, Adam Zraike (aka Adam Perez), Rachid Kabhara, Hammoude Badr, Mohamad Sowaid and Mohamad Diab – [...]
On 7 March 2010, we published an article by Zoe Margolis. In part of the first edition of the newspaper and online, this article carried the headline, “I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”. This was written by the newspaper not Ms Margolis. We accept that Ms Margolis is not and never has [...]
Below is a front page article from the Star Press in Muncie, IN: We screwed up. And to Tom Collins, we’re sorry. What was reported on this newspaper’s sports pages yesterday and on our Web site for much of the day on Wednesday was wrong. Collins, athletic director at Ball State, did not apply for [...]
An article published in the edition of January 18th 2010 referred to James White and his departure from AIB s corporate banking team in London in the context of a serious property fraud allegedly perpetrated in AIB by Achilleas Kallakis. We accept that James White had no involvement whatsoever with Mr Kallakis, the management of [...]
First they had the exclusive (!) that Chief Justice John Roberts was “considering” stepping down: John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, is seriously considering stepping down from the nation’s highest court for personal reasons, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. And then RadarOnline.com had the exclusive (!) that he wasn’t: Despite considering resigning [...]
AN article on 10 August 2009 “Terror case doc works in casualty” reported that, following his court acquittal on terrorist charges, Dr Asha was working for the NHS. Some readers may have understood the article to mean that Dr Asha is a terrorist suspect and a threat to national security. This was not our intention [...]
February 25, 2010 – 8:00 am
On Friday, October 30th, Cambridge News Online published an article stating that former Newsround presenter and BBC correspondent Lizo Mzimba had visited Cambridge to research a documentary, called Shamebridge, about the university. Our story reported how an online student newspaper alleged that Mr Mzimba had been gaffer-taped to a wall by rowdy students while undertaking [...]
February 17, 2010 – 8:00 am
ON 16 April 2008, The Daily Telegraph published an article about the conduct of Tania Evers as defence counsel in a criminal trial. There was also an editorial on the issue. Various criticisms were made of Ms Evers. The Daily Telegraph acknowledges that criticisms made of Ms Evers were unjustified and that some of the [...]
February 15, 2010 – 11:10 am
The New York Times published an editors’ note today revealing that business reporter Zachery Kouwe “reused language from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources without attribution or acknowledgment.” Here’s the note: In a number of business articles in The Times over the past year, and in posts on the DealBook blog on NYTimes.com, [...]
February 8, 2010 – 8:00 am
The Feb 1 story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration’s budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no [...]
February 5, 2010 – 3:49 pm
Acting on a reader tip, Slate’s Jack Shafer busted the Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner for lifting from the Miami Herald: Veteran journalist Gerald Posner acknowledged today that he copied five sentences from a Miami Herald article this week for a piece he wrote for the Daily Beast. The Daily Beast appended an editor’s note to [...]
January 28, 2010 – 8:00 am
On Monday last, under the headline “Saoirse: Pupils weren’t Lovely to me”, we reported remarks attributed to actor Saoirse Ronan concerning her experience at school in which it was stated that pupils, teachers and staff at school gave her a hard time. We identified the school wrongly as being Kilkenny College. We acknowledge that, contrary [...]
January 25, 2010 – 8:00 am
ON January 18, 2010, we published an article within the Scottish Daily Express concerning the recent purchase of a property by author JK Rowling, entitled fiParty must’ve been wizard – Rowling pays GBP 300,000 extra to move straight into new mansionfl. In it we published two photographs of the inside of Ms Rowling’s new property. [...]
January 18, 2010 – 8:00 am
A photograph published in the Toronto Sun Friday incorrectly identified a person who has the same name as a dead drug dealer. The photo showed Shawn James, winner of a Harry Jerome Award in 2005 and a social worker with UrbanPromise Toronto, a Christian-based community initiative working with children, youth and single mothers. He is [...]
January 18, 2010 – 8:00 am
ON 19 June 2008 we reported that Britain’s Next Top Model finalist Jasmia Robinson’s unnamed boyfriend, was in custody for allegedly stabbing a suspected love rival. We wish to make clear that her boyfriend David Obanobi was in fact the victim of the knife attack and not the perpetrator and was not in custody. We [...]
January 15, 2010 – 8:00 am
The story “Suspect in $150m loan scam fronts court” on Wednesday listed people said to have been charged as part of a fraud syndicate. In fact, only seven of the persons listed in the article, namely Hiba Cornell, Ahmad Hamze, Adam Perez, Rachid Kabhara, Hammoude Badr, Mohamad Sowaid, and Mohamad Diab have been so charged. [...]
January 11, 2010 – 8:00 am
An error was inadvertently committed in the report by our Special Correspondent published in the front page of The Hindu under the headline “Two editors of TV 5 arrested in Hyderabad.” The report wrongly stated that TV9 was among the three channels booked by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the telecast of [...]
January 4, 2010 – 8:00 am
In our report “Brighton TV producer escapes jail for “repulsive” child porn collection” at 5.49pm on Monday December 21 2009, we wrongly identified the defendant accused of downloading “unspeakable” child porn at a trial heard at Southwark Crown Court as Martyn Smith, the Bafta-nominated TV director, producer and writer whose achievements include the BBC programme [...]
December 21, 2009 – 8:00 am
An article published on our website and on B1 yesterday about lobbyists working for Globalive Wireless Management Corp. was incorrect. The lobbyists and the company both acted properly and within the requirements of the federal Accountability Act. We unreservedly retract the statements made to the contrary and apologize to both Globalive and Ken Boessenkool for [...]
