Category Archives: Regret Articles

NY Sun names fired CBS producer; why naming her is important

After many blogs (Gawker, TV Newser etc.) put out calls for the name of the CBS producer fired this week for plagiarism, David Blum has named her in a story in today’s New York Sun. “In an era when plagiarists get dismissed and outed weekly by their employers at news organizations around the country, the [...]

ABC gets partial correction to Stanley story; objective and subjective errors


ESPN unveils cross-platform correction policy and procedures

One of the most enjoyable correction-related experiences comes at the end of every episode of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, a sports talk and interview show featuring Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser.
As ESPN explains, at the end of every show, “researcher Tony Reali corrects any statistical fouls Kornheiser and Wilbon made in the heat of battle.” [...]

Regret the Error: The Book (and a request)


UPDATED: Of letters and corrections and the New Yorker


Vote for Regret


The corrections go audio

Our recent post about the state of online corrections was published before an inspired project by the San Francisco Chronicle. The paper is, as far as we know, the first newspaper in the world to introduce audio corrections. Last week it launched Correct Me If I’m Wrong, a regular podcast that will feature selected [...]

Advances in online corrections


Something for the season: The Million Dollar Blog Post


Crunks ’06: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

Written and Compiled by Craig Silverman
Gather ’round for our annual collection of the funny, shocking, sad and disturbing media errors and corrections from the past year. From typos that celebrate Queen Elizabeth and her remarkable egg-laying abilities, to media hoaxes, unreliable sources, the Sago disaster and apologies for mistakes nearly 120 years ago, it was [...]

2006 Plagiarism/Fabrication Round-Up


A note of Regret


Right of reply for sources


An anniversary of Regret


The Mark Foley/congressional scandal corrections


NY Times op-ed section finally gets around to correcting errors

New York Times public editor Byron Calame has been agitating for the paper’s op-ed section to correct some lingering errors. One is from an editorial on April 26, and another is from an editorial on December 30. The Times yesterday finally published the corrections:
Our public editor reminded us last week that we have not corrected [...]

A Note of Regret


Misquotes that take on a life of their own


Deja vu: Regarding those “Polish death camps”


That’s Edgar Allan Poe

As was the case with a certain James Dobson correction, we have noticed a tendency for newspapers to misspell the middle name of author Edgar Allan Poe. The latest misspelling happened in the Chicago Tribune. But the paper is far from alone. A recent collection of Poe name corrections:
Chicago Tribune
July 02, 2006
In a promo on [...]

A tale of two public editors


WSJ introduces corrections search


Regret The Interview: A conversation with Reuters’ Paul Holmes


Times reporter questions the corrections


A.M. Rosenthal and the modern correction