A letter from the editor of the Technician, the student paper at North Carolina State University I am dismayed to inform Technician readers of a case of plagiarism within the Student Media staff. Yesterday I received an email from a fellow college newspaper saying they suspected one of our staff columnists of plagiarizing a column [...]
This was published Friday by the Evening Times of Glasgow: On Wednesday, October 5, the Evening Times published a report outlining the account of a woman s ordeal in court in which she claimed she had been raped. This story was subsequently highlighted in Holyrood at First Minister’s Questions. Regrettably the story was not subjected [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On Monday, 26 September, we published an article which claimed that Katie Price was involving her son, Junior, in violent pursuits and that this was of deep concern to her ex-husband, Peter Andre. In fact our story was incorrect and Katie has simply taken Junior to a noncontact fun fitness class designed by MMA trainer [...]
Romenesko spotted a pretty remarkable report from the Chicago Tribune. (Scroll down for an update.) It reveals that a Fox Sports broadcast showed a series of fake media headlines purportedly about Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and portrayed them as real. From the Trib story: During the fourth quarter of the Bears-Falcons season opener, Fox turned [...]
So the Johann Hari saga has come to something of a conclusion. He apologized and will take a leave from the Independent from now until 2012. From his apology: I did two wrong and stupid things. The first concerns some people I interviewed over the years. When I recorded and typed up any conversation, I [...]
The Western Star published a letter to the editor on July 12, 2011, under the heading ‘Klein a disgrace’. The headline was inappropriate and unfair as the letter writer had expressed the view that a perceived action by the Maranoa Regional Council – not Mr Klein – had been disgraceful. We regret the wording of [...]
ON June 7 The Northern Star published details of a protest in relation to the operation of the Federal Government’s Commercial Horse Allowance Payments Scheme (aCHAPSa) as introduced through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry during the equine influenza outbreak. It has become apparent that a photograph used in relation to that article could [...]
In Eugene McGee’s article on Monday, August 15, 2011, headed ‘DIRT ON THE SOLE OF THEIR SHOE’ concerning the CCCC’s decision concerning Wexford goalkeeperAnthony Masterson, it was incorrectly stated that the above-mentioned CCCC members were involved in deliberations which led to that decision. In fact, these CCCC members had no involvement whatsoever in such deliberations. [...]
THE Australian yesterday published an opinion piece by Glenn Milne (“PM a lost cause for warring unions”, Page 14) that included assertions about the conduct of the Prime Minister. The Australian acknowledges these assertions are untrue. The Australian also acknowledges no attempt was made by anyone employed by, or associated with, The Australian to contact [...]
Thanks to Tabloid Watch, a great blog in the U.K., I was made aware of a series of notable recent corrections/apologies in the Daily Mail. Here they are, in order of appearance. And here’s a related Toronto Star column from me: An article on March 30 attributed four controversial appeal decisions to Lord Justice Sedley. [...]
The picture caption accompanying ‘ How first a marriage then a political career were ended’ (22 January 2011) incorrectly identified the plain-clothes policeman appearing in the picture between Mr Johnson and his wife, as DC Paul Rice, who it was alleged had an affair with Mrs Johnson. In fact the picture was of Sergeant Paul [...]
On July 12, 2011, in an article titled “Detective to Sue News of the World Publisher,” we reported that Jonathan Rees murdered his former business partner, Daniel Morgan. This statement is not true, and was published by us notwithstanding that it is wholly incorrect. We did not contact Mr Rees before the article was published [...]
It was difficult enough that the Vancouver Canucks were grieving their former player Rick Rypien, who died suddenly on Monday at 27 after a history of depression. Imagine their feelings when they saw a quote from the Toronto Star’s obit on Rypien that seemed to show GM Mike Gillis calling Rypien “crazy.” The Star’s story [...]
A column by Heather Mallick on July 28 contained a number of inaccurate statements about the well-known British journalist and author Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips has expressed her horror at the slaughter at Utoya, Norway in a clear and unambiguous way, writing “there can be no excuse, justification or rationale whatsoever for the atrocity perpetrated [...]
From a report by the Jewish Tribune: The Jewish Defence League of Canada (JDL) will sue CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] for defamation, said the JDL’s leader, after the country’s most prominent news organization called it a terrorist group. “This is a part of a campaign of defamation against people who are on the right wing,” [...]
Pass notes No 3,020 was based on a story that suggested scientific research showed those who used Internet Explorer to complete an online quiz were less intelligent than others who completed the quiz. The story has since been shown to be a hoax. Unaided by the hoaxers, we also proved that we don’t know the [...]
In his Friday essay on 15 April 2011 (“The Arab Awakening – a long time coming”) Robert Fisk quoted from an order said to have been issued by the Saudi Minister of the Interior, HRH Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud on 11 March, in which he alleged that Prince Nayef ordered his security forces [...]
