Regret the Error

In the Feb. 7 Slatest, Sonia Van Gilder Cooke misidentified the Green Bay Packers as a Florida team and misspelled Pittsburgh in a headline. Link  Report an error

In the Feb. 7 "Spectator," Ron Rosenbaum originally transposed the words former and latter, inadvertently suggesting that the Allies used Hitler to defeat Stalin, rather than vice versa. Link Thanks, Hannah!  Report an error

A previous Web version of this story incorrectly said North Korea instead of South Korea in reference to possible trade pacts. Link  Report an error

CNN has retracted a story dealing with questions surrounding the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning at the Marine Corp Base Quantico in Virginia. Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said Tuesday that there is no investigation into the decision last week to put Manning, who has been charged with leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks, on [...]

There are a few topics that every public editor or ombudsman will inevitably address during their tenure. Conflicts of interest and accusations of bias are bound to provide column fodder. Corrections and accuracy, too. And within the realm of corrections and accuracy, you can usually count on an ombud examining the tension between speed and [...]

Gawker has exposed a nasty practice at health and fitness publisher Rodale: … A tipster tells us that Zinczenko "copies and pastes" old Men's Health articles for his "Eat This, Not That" column for Yahoo! Health that runs under his byline. So we ran his prose through a search engine. We discovered that Zinczenko—whose cult [...]

There's a lot of conflicting information flowing about today's deadly attack at a Moscow airport. Note the mismatched headline and lead in this story from KTNV ABC in Las Vegas: Update January 24: They fixed the headline ("31 dead in Russian attack"). Fast work, but no correction. Thanks, @chrishogg!  Report an error

Ken Auletta's latest article in the New Yorker — a long feature about the new AOL — set off a lot of online chatter. One statistic in particular was highlighted by the Consumerist and Business Insider. The former writes: A New Yorker profile this week details how 80% of AOL's revenue comes from subscriptions, and, [...]

Earlier today the good folks at Retraction Watch drew my attention to the fact that, after having already issued five corrections to the piece, Salon finally stood up and retracted a 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I noted the corrections on this site in 2005 when they began appearing on Salon's corrections page [...]

Just noticed a TODAY Show correction from earlier in January: Former “Brady Bunch” star Christopher Knight was wrongly identified as the defendant in a lawsuit for assault and battery earlier this week in a TODAYshow.com story reported by Us Weekly and attributed to Radaronline.com. Some additional details are on TODAYshow.com: RadarOnline.com is reporting that it [...]

Late this week word began to spread on websites, TV, Twitter, and Facebook that there is a new, 13th sign of the Zodiac. Thought you were an Aquarius? Maybe not anymore. The Huffington Post pushed the story hard. They even built an app to help you see which of your friends have a new sign. [...]

This article originally misspelled the name of a Louisiana State grad student who maintains a blog called Lippmann Would Roll. He is Matthew Schafer, not Shafer. The misspelling has been corrected. CJR regrets the error. Link The above is a correction to my Columbia Journalism Review Column of last week. The correction was added yesterday [...]

Daily Beast Washington bureau chief and former Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz recently added a rather important correction to a story of his that was published back in November. (Not that it's labeled as a correction on the story…) Here's an excerpt from a post by Kurtz that explains the nature of the error: [...]

There has already been a lot of discussion and reporting about the mistakes made by various news organizations while reporting the horrific shooting that took place in Arizona on the weekend. (My headline on this post only mentions Rep. Giffords, but she is of course not the only victim.) As news — and errors — [...]

The shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event earlier today resulted in an onslaught of breaking news reporting. Major news organizations raced to gather reporting, and information began to spread quickly. As is often the case, this led to a lot of mistakes — including reports from NPR, Reuters, CNN, [...]

We have no copy editors at TBD and got criticized for that after a famous correction. While the newsroom staffing was Editor Erik Wemple’s decision, I fully support it. You can’t do everything, and a digital operation can correct after publication with less damage than a print publication very few people saw the original error [...]

In late December, the editor of Palo Alto Patch apologized for an incident of plagiarism on the site: We recently discovered that one of our freelance writers lifted information for one of his business reports from VentureBeat, an online news site covering technology and innovation in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. While we provide all of [...]

chinadialogue has received a complaint from Mr Cheng Guoqiang about a recently published article. Although the article was prepared and published in good faith, chinadialogue's editors accept that errors were made in the preparation and publication of this article and we apologise unreservedly for any misrepresentation of Mr Cheng's views that resulted from a breach [...]

After publication, a number of factual errors were noted in this article. They are: Elad receives 47 million shekels annually in anonymous donations, not 52 million from the government. Gitlin attempted to photograph a Palestinian youth at a border-polie outpost, not a military outpost. A tunnel in Silwan recently caused damage to a mosque and [...]

From the Onion (I neglected to put this up last week): It pains me to point out that we recently published an item that should never have been published. A recent installment of Comics Panel featured a review of the book Genius Isolated: The Life & Art Of Alex Toth. This afternoon, a reader contacted [...]

While you’re here, please consider purchasing a copy of the Regret the Error book, which won an award for media criticism from the National Press Club, and also contains hundreds of hilarious corrections. You can learn more about the book and read some reviews here. The paperback edition includes a new introduction. Error of the [...]

In the Nov. 30 "Green Lantern," Brian Palmer stated that a treadmill produces 110 tons of carbon dioxide annually. It's 110 pounds. Link  Report an error

After a few months of working together and lining up some partners, Scott Rosenberg of of MediaBugs and I today launched the Report an Error Alliance. This initiative aims to move news organizations of all shapes and sizes towards a common standard for online error reporting. The goal is to ensure more mistakes get corrected, [...]

… Most newspapers have longstanding policies on how errors are corrected in print, but if you ask editors and reporters about online corrections in their own newsrooms, you likely will get as many answers as people you ask. … Mobile sites and apps for smartphones and devices like the iPad bring yet another dimension to [...]

Editor's Note: This post contained inaccurate information about CNN's Sanjay Gupta. We have removed the post from the site and regret the error. Link I looked for the cached version of the above post by former candidate for U.S. Senate Jim Neal but nothing came up. If you look at some of the retweets of [...]