An article on Nov. 24 about the photographer Steven Klein misstated the year that the magazine Dutch published pictures showing men being brutally handcuffed by police. The photographs appeared in the May-June 2002 issue, not in 2003. The article also erroneously included an American actor among the men shown in the pictures. Dutch did not [...]
A story in Wednesday’s Local & State section incorrectly stated that James Lambert, who was fatally shot Tuesday by an off-duty firefighter, had been convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child. Because of an error interpreting court records, the Observer wrongly attributed that conviction to Lambert. Instead, another man by the same name and [...]
A map showing reported deaths in Syria since protests began at the beginning of the year contained some errors. The Golan Heights were located north of Damascus, some distance from the Israeli border. The city of Idlib appeared twice, once in its correct location and again near Hama. The same city, normally referred to in [...]
A Dec. 10 placeline and article about Canadian Special Forces who travel the world training foreign militaries to fight terrorism incorrectly stated the location of a conference on the future of special operations as Kingston, Jamaica. In fact, the conference was in Kingston, Ont. Link Report an error
A Nov. 27 article about holiday home tours incorrectly attributed a quote to Yitz Fleischman, owner of the Chanukah House. Fleischman did not compare a “talking” Hanukkah rebbe with talking to Santa. Report an error
Thirty years ago, a cub reporter for the New York Times was given his first assignment: “to cover the failure of the old transmitter of Columbia University’s radio station, WKCR-FM, which was then perched on 515 Madison Avenue, at 53rd Street.” David W. Dunlap was brought back to the memory of that first Times byline [...]
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 [...]
Stephen Harper is prime minister of Canada. In some editions Thursday, the front-page World-Wide news summary incorrectly referred to him as the country’s premier. Link Report an error
A Nov. 7 article about the power of the Punjabi press mistakenly said that a “slew” of Punjabi newspapers published a story whipping up public sentiment against a 23-year-old bride whose husband accused her of only marrying him to come to Canada. In fact, only a few Punjabi weekly papers reported this and neither of [...]
An apology from the Express Tribune of Pakistan: We regret the inadvertent publication of the article titled “Shia-Sunni reconciliation” by Saleem Ali in our print edition of December 9, 2011 and subsequently on our website. The article was published without exercising proper editorial judgment. We apologise for the mistake and to our readers whose religious [...]
Last Sunday’s article ‘Kate’s crimpers go to war’ may have left the impression that Richard Ward, proprietor of the Richard Ward Hair & Metrospa salon in Chelsea, was jealous of James Pryce, a former employee, who styled the Duchess of Cambridge’s hair on the day of the Royal Wedding. The article might also have suggested [...]
CMU professor Kiron Skinner, recently named to GOP presidential candidate and former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s national security team, says she was misquoted in a story Monday about her appointment. She said her quote was: “I’ve been a supporter of Speaker Gingrich for a long time because I’ve seen him in numerous professional circumstances…” The [...]
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 [...]
Footnote: Last week’s column revealed that I was the third born of the four Abraham children, which was news to my brothers and sister. For the record, I was the second born. Link Report an error
“Empire Strikes Backstraat” isn’t the name of an actual street in Almere, the Netherlands. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the town had a street with that name. Link (sub req’d) Thanks, Niels! Report an error
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 [...]
A post on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site suffered from some poor — but amusing! — photo sourcing: The caption really makes the error all the more wonderful. The photo has been fixed, though a correction was not placed on the story. Instead, a Guardian employee posted a corrective comment: There were of course [...]
We reported on June 30 that the driver of a giant dumper truck crushed two colleagues to death while reading a newspaper . The Fatal Accident Inquiry report into the incident found that one of the reasons the deaths might have been avoided was if Alan Shannon [the driver] had paid more attention and in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Said & Done” (Sport, last week, page 6) was wrong to describe Sacha Gaydamak, former owner of Portsmouth FC, as “son of billionaire convicted arms trafficker Arcady”. Mr Gaydamak was cleared of charges relating to arms dealing by the French Supreme Court on 29 April 2011. We apologise for this error. Link Report an error
An obituary last Sunday about Basil D’Oliveira, the South African cricket player, misstated Mr. D’Oliveira’s age when he immigrated to England. He was in his late 20s, not ”well into his 30s.” The obituary also misstated the first year the South African cricket team played an international match after South Africa canceled a visit by [...]
