In our article last week about Sir Andrew Cahn, the new chairman of the UK advisory board of Chinese telecoms company Huawei, we said he had stepped down from his previous job as head of UK Trade & Investment with a £1.2 million pay-off. This was not true. He retired from UKTI at the normal [...]
In the report headed Lindsay on a record run, (Countryman, November 10, page 5) it was incorrectly stated that Lindsay Cannon was looking at a grain crop of 600,000700,000 tonnes. The crop estimate is actually 60007000 tonnes. Countryman apologises for the error. Report an error
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 [...]
The Iranian man being sought in connection with a bank scandal in Tehran referred to in a story on Monday, Oct. 31 , is Mahmoud Reza Khavari who lives in Toronto. The Globe and Mail did not suggest or intend to suggest that Mehregan Amirkhosravi of Montreal has been accused of any wrongdoing. Report an [...]
On the heels of the Daily Mail starting a new corrections column, Trinity Mirror papers the Daily Mail, Birmingham Mail, South Wales Echo, Western Mail and Huddersfield Examiner announced they too would be using page two to display corrections. Here’s the note to readers from the Mail: AT THE Birmingham Mail, we pride ourselves in [...]
CORRECTION – An earlier version of this story referred to Cain having a ‘cedar-quality’ mustache. The proper term is ‘theater-quality.’ Link Thanks, James! Report an error
On Wednesday, the Nelson Mail published an article about the payment of bonuses to Nelson City Council staff, headlined “Council clarifies definition of bonus”. We accept that the article could have given the impression that the council’s chief executive, Keith Marshall, had made misleading statements concerning staff payments. Mr Marshall has made clear, and we [...]
Some information, including a quote, from The Gulf News appeared without proper attribution in a story about Newfoundland’s first porcupine in the Oct. 27 National Post. The Post regrets the oversight. The offending story is online and doesn’t include this “clarification.” It also doesn’t include any credit or attribution to the Gulf News. The Gulf [...]
In a column published October 23, 2011 the Ottawa Citizen repeated allegations made against Dr. Ben Fong, a local dentist and the owner of Menu-Map and Source Networks Company. The Ottawa Citizen could not reach Dr. Fong prior to publication and the column does not represent a fair and accurate report. The Ottawa Citizen apologizes [...]
We stated in an article on 26 September that Christmas has been renamed in various places Winterval. Winterval was the collective name for a season of public events, both religious and secular, which took place in Birmingham in 1997 and 1998. We are happy to make clear that Winterval did not rename or replace Christmas. [...]
Looks like the folks at the South China Morning Post aren’t boxing fans: That’s George Foreman, not Joe Frazier. Ouch. I’ll update with the correction when it runs. Update Nov. 10 9:54 pm: The correction: The uncaptioned photograph published on C8, the Joe Frazier obituary page, in yesterday’s Sports section was of George Foreman. We [...]
On Sunday, October 16 we carried a story titled “Hopefuls test the waters as Kibaki bids farewell” in which we named and quoted the Grand National Party member Mwangi Makanga, declaring his interest in the Othaya parliamentary seat. We have since learnt Makanga died in a road accident after the interview. The story was based [...]
An article on Monday about the possibility that San Francisco voters may elect the city’s first Chinese-American mayor today misstated the name of the news organization that reported on the possible issues in the campaign of Edwin M. Lee, a longtime city official now serving as interim mayor. It is The Bay Citizen, not The [...]
In a story on Saturday, Carterton Mayor Ron Mark was quoted as saying Wellington city had a “consultative” economy. He in fact said “consumptive”. Link Report an error
An article on August 7 said the former MP Elliot Morley, who was jailed for his role in the MPs expenses scandal, was said to have been roughed up by a fellow prisoner, frogmarched to his cell and forced to hand over a £3,000 Rolex watch. We quoted sources at Ford Prison. In fact, Mr [...]
In our super-glossy supplement Kate: A Magical Year, we described the Duchess wearing a ‘pillarbox hat’. We should have said a ‘pillbox hat’. Link Report an error
An article on Oct. 20 about the musician and record producer Nile Rodgers and his new memoir referred incompletely to an anecdote he told about suffering ”cocaine psychosis” on what he said was the last day he used drugs, a day he visited the hotel suite of Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. Mr. [...]
YESTERDAY, owing to a production error, the Echo ran several stories on page six that had originally appeared a month earlier on October 4. We apologise to readers for the mistake. One of the stories said that Cardiff sports travel firm Inspiresport had had its licence revoked, but since the original report we would like [...]
Quotations in a story about the Istrouma High School-Broadmoor High School football game that appeared in The Advocate on Saturday, Oct. 29, were wrongly attributed to Broadmoor coach Rusty Price. The reporter who wrote the story thought he was interviewing coach Price after the game. Because the interview subject was not Price, the reporter is [...]
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 [...]
An obituary of the film-maker George Kuchar was illustrated with a photograph that did not show him, as the caption said, but his twin brother, Mike (20 October, page 35). Link Report an error
The Los Angeles Times has been hearing complaints from readers about typos and grammatical errors. The feedback was mentioned in this piece. Just about every newspaper these days gets complaints of that nature, and it’s good that readers speak up. But what’s notable about the Times story is the information offered up in response by [...]
Lose a letter, change the meaning (big time): (They’re missing the “l” in clocks…) Charles Apple has identified the culprit as the News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio. He also says the error was in Friday’s paper. Thanks, @denverdiatribe! Report an error
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 [...]
A critic’s notebook article on Monday about an academic conference at the University of Chicago on the television show ”Jersey Shore” referred imprecisely to a comment made by Candace Moore, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan who spoke about the friendship between Vinny and Pauly D. She linked the quest for ”stranger sex” [...]
