From Reuters:
South African President Jacob Zuma accepted "very substantial damages" from Britain’s Guardian newspaper over an article that wrongly suggested he was a rapist, his lawyers said on Thursday.
The March article, headlined "Get used to a corrupt and chaotic South Africa. But don’t write it off" also alleged Zuma was guilty of corruption and bribery [...]
Today the Telegraph-Journal in New Brunswick issued a remarkable front page apology for a report that became a national controversy in Canada.
In early July, the paper reported that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had pocketed the communion wafer given to him by a Roman Catholic priest at the funeral of former Governor-General Romeo LeBlanc. That report [...]
A New York newspaper is in trouble with local politicians and other members of the community after it took two photos and combined them without telling readers. Here’s the photo:
A report from the Southampton Press:
The photograph depicts Brookhaven Town Councilman Keith Romaine as being present at a July 2 news conference at Smith Point County [...]
A report from the Guardian:
The trade magazine Nursery Management Today could face a claim for damages after publishing a picture of the wrong nursery to illustrate a story about an investigation into child abuse.
The July/August edition of the title, owned by Hawker Publications, included a picture of the wrong nursery – in which the nursery’s [...]
An interview purporting to be with Banksy in last Saturday’s Guide (One last thing . . . , 18 July, page 98, the Guide) was, it transpires, conducted with someone impersonating the graffiti artist. We apologise to Banksy for this error and for any offence and inconvenience caused. Link
Thanks, Daniel!
FURTHER to our preview of last night’s game published in Thursday July 9th edition, we wish to clarify that Ian Bermingham did not give the quote attributed to him. The level of wages stated in the headline for Mr Bermingham was inaccurate. We regret any distress caused and accept that Mr Bermingham had declined to [...]
Romenesko spotted a story in the Ahwatukee Foothills News that details how the paper fell for a rather elaborate hoax. Using his mother and what appears to be at least one accomplice to add credibility, 21 year-old Vinayak Gorur convinced the paper that he was a chef on the rise. From the paper’s account:
…wow, did [...]
The cover article of The Times Magazine on Sunday reported on whales and the possibility of interspecies communication between them and humans. The final two paragraphs of the article described an occasion in 2005 when a humpback whale became entangled in crab-trap ropes and was freed by a rescue team. Some of the language in [...]
In an article published on 1st January 2009 entitled "Bank closes account of charity linked to Hamas", we suggested that the Bolton-based charity Ummah Welfare Trust may have indirectly helped to fund Hamas, which has been branded as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the USA and the EU.
It was not our intention to make [...]
The Press Gazette’s Axegrinder blog spotted this apology in Cotswold Life magazine:
In our January and February 2009 issues of Cotswold Life we published a number of articles focused on upcoming events in the county which included original material taken, without permission, from the website www.soglos.com. We are very sorry that we failed to seek permission, [...]
IN our edition dated April 12, 2009, we reported that Thomas Tolan, below, a current inmate of Maghaberry prison was facing disciplinary proceedings having allegedly been found by prison officials to be in possession of hard core pornographic DVDs.
It has been pointed out to us by Mr Tolan that he was not in fact [...]
A college student interning at the Colorado Spring Gazette has been fired after the paper discovered she plagiarized from the New York Times in four recent articles. An editor’s note from the paper:
On Tuesday I learned that The Gazette has published four news stories during the past month that contain passages that are substantially similar, [...]
(See update at the bottom of this post.)
A photographer whose work appeared in the New York Times Magazine has been accused of digitally manipulating his images. Edgar Martins produced a photo essay entitled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age." It showed abandoned buildings/construction projects and was featured in the magazine and on the Times website. [...]
A short item in a football roundup hinted at a £2m move to Middlesbrough for Serbian striker Rajko Purovic (Transfer talk, 11 June, page 4). This story was based on a web hoax. For reasons we have been unable to divine, it appeared in the paper under the byline of a reporter who was on [...]
AN ARTICLE entitled "Charged for giving his kids’ mum AIDS" was published on May 19, 2008 concerning Mr Brian Montgomery. The article was incorrectly accompanied by a photograph of Mr Mark Ryan. The Daily Telegraph apologises unreservedly for any embarrassment or hurt to feelings suffered by Mr Ryan as a result of the publication.
Kris DeRego, the news editor at Ka Leo, the student paper at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has been fired after the paper looked through his previous work and found a trail of fabricated sources and factual errors. From the paper’s report:
In a review of all stories written for Ka Leo between January 2008 [...]
A report from the Guardian:
The editor-in-chief of an academic journal has resigned after his publication accepted a hoax article.
The Open Information Science Journal failed to spot that the incomprehensible computer-generated paper was a fake. This was despite heavy hints from its authors, who claimed they were from the Centre for Research in Applied [...]
On May 22, *The Toledo Free Press reports that columnist Maggie Thurber resigned after one of her columns was found to have included plagiarized material. From the story:
Thurber’s column for May 24, “A History of Memorial Day,” was accused by a contributor of SwampBubbles.com of containing plagiarized lines.
Upon learning of the accusation, Toledo Free [...]
Seymour Hersh has come out swinging against false reports claiming that he told an Arab TV station that Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered the assassination of for Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Raw Story has a report in which the Pulitzer winner decries articles that completely fabricated comments attributed to him. Raw Story notes [...]
In her weekend column, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd included a sentence that later turned out to be taken almost verbatim from Talking Points Memo. (Compare here.) She failed to include any attribution, and this caused TPM and others to accuse her of plagiarism. Dowd emailed a response to the allegations to the Nytpicker [...]
In yesterday’s article in the print edition, ‘Britain’s least wanted’, by mistake we published a picture of D. Al-Boutti , instead of a picture of ‘Safwat Hijazi, televangalist’. Dr Al-Boutti is a highly reputable Syrian Muslim scholar and of course would not appear on a banned [...]
A story in the April 19 Sunday Sun, headlined Quick on the draw, incorrectly created the impression Eddy Kubara was involved in the Toronto Dominion bank robbery on Jan. 22, 1971.
Kubara was not involved in the planning or execution of the holdup.
The Sun apologizes for the error. Link
On 10th December last, we published a story on the website with the heading: ‘Police officer faces jail after crashing riot van’.
The article described the conviction of former Pc Geoff Jackson for taking a police vehicle without consent, careless driving and driving without insurance after a night out drinking with friends.
The article was accompanied by [...]
Erwin James is the name used by a convicted murder murderer who writes regularly for the Guardian. (That name is somewhat different from the one he grew up with.) Back in 2006, he wrote an article about his time spent in the French Foreign Legion. Now, three years later, he has admitted to fabricating parts [...]
Roughly three weeks ago, the website of Sports Illustrated reported that NFL draft prospect B.J. Raji had tested positive for marijuana at the NFL combine. The story was widely quoted but it also drew criticism, especially after Raji’s agent disputed the tale. Days later, SI scrubbed the story off its site. The FanHouse asked SI [...]
