In the Talk interview in the Magazine this weekend, Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s fourth wife, disputes an account by Gay Talese in a 1966 Esquire article, in which he described Sinatra’s toupees and the woman who cared for them. In taking issue with those details, Barbara Sinatra said her husband always employed men to care [...]
The Washington Post today published an editor's note to admit that two articles about the Rep. Giffords shooting included plagiarized material: Two articles published by The Post online and in its print editions earlier this month contained substantial material that was borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from The Arizona Republic newspaper. The articles described an [...]
An Op-Ed article on Monday, about the sea boundary between North and South Korea, listed as an author John H. Cushman, a retired Army lieutenant general who commanded the United States-South Korean First Corps Group from 1976 to 1978. During the editing process, General Cushman asked that his name be removed as a co-author, but [...]
A photograph with an art review on Oct. 1 about the show “Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture” at theMuseum of Modern Art, and several other pictures in an online slide show, appeared to show museum visitors viewing the exhibit. In fact, the people shown were museum staff members, who were asked by museum [...]
Editor's note: A story in Saturday's paper about the debate in Wellesley over a school trip to a mosque inappropriately used material from a story published on a local website. Comments attributed to parents Ute Smith and Mary Crown were taken from an article that first appeared Friday morning on Patch.com's Wellesley site. The use [...]
This letter to the editor from Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, was published in Malaysiakini, a Malaysian website: I refer to the Malaysikini report Dr M: If they can make Avatar, they can make 9/11. I can understand Malaysiakini not wanting to be labelled as anti-Semitic but I don’t think it [...]
The Prototype column last Sunday, about customer innovation centers, reported on a program at the 3M Company’s headquarters in St. Paul and described the company as being “at the forefront of a movement†in which corporations meet face to face with customers to elicit feedback. After the column was published, The Times learned that 3M [...]
An earlier version of this list entry was written by CNBC journalist David Faber and was solicited by Newsweek.com without accurately conveying to him the context in which it would appear. As a result, Faber, who was not shown the final edited item, appeared to be complicit in the criticism of a network colleague, which [...]
The “Place†feature about Miami in the T magazine travel issue on Nov. 22 included a reference to the 8 oz. Burger Bar. The writer has had a long personal relationship with a co-owner of the restaurant; had editors known of that connection, the restaurant would not have been included in the article. Link Credit [...]
A “Notice to Readers” on the paper’s website: A Nov. 10 “New Global Indian” online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine. In the column, “Homeward Bound,” about H-1B [...]
An article on Aug. 4 about a judge’s ruling granting permanent custody of Michael Jackson’s three children to his mother, Katherine Jackson, and an editors’ note last Thursday, said that lawyers for Mrs. Jackson were considering challenging the two executors of Mr. Jackson’s will on the grounds that they allegedly took advantage of addictions that [...]
You’d expect a magazine to exercise extra caution when publishing an article about a “vending machine for crows.†It’s a strange idea, not to mention one that was developed for a master’s thesis in a “Interactive Telecommunications Program.” Because the story doesn’t fall into the category of common knowledge, it requires particularly careful editing and [...]
City Pages, a weekly in Minneapolis/St. Paul, highlighted this remarkable Editor’s Note from the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Minnesota: Editor’s note: Some of the claims made by Charles Carlson included in this article were later found to be untrue. Several months after this story was printed, Carlson admitted he had [...]
The Washington Post and its magazine this weekend published three Editor’s Notes, one of which included an apology. As I pointed out in a recent column for Columbia Journalism Review online, the Post rarely makes apologies. Here’s the apology/Editor’s Note from magazine editor Tom Shroder: In the Jan. 25 issue of the Magazine, we ran [...]
Critic Tom Sietsema should have recused himself from reviewing the Commissary, a restaurant featured in the Oct. 29 Food section. He and one of the restaurant’s owners had earlier had a personal relationship. The Washington Post regrets that he reviewed this restaurant, and will remove the review from its online archive. Link This Editor’s Note [...]
A front-page picture caption on June 26 describing an 11-month-old boy whose legs were in casts stated that his legs were broken and that his mother said the injuries were caused by an episode of state-sponsored violence in Zimbabwe. After the picture and an accompanying article that also described the injuries were published, The New [...]
Last week I received an email from CounterPoint Strategies, a PR firm that helps “clients confront volatile media circumstances.” They pointed me to a release by Salmon of the Americas Inc., an industry trade group, that raised several questions about a recent article by New York Times Reporter Alexei Barrionuevo. CounterPoint contacted me because it [...]
An Editor’s Note: A story on page B1 of the April 5 edition of the Citizen, which looked at the future of NATO, should not have included quotes attributed to Clifford Gaddy, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Mr. Gaddy was not interviewed by the Citizen for that article, and the [...]
In “The World According To John McCain” (April 7), NEWSWEEK described a meeting at the 2006 Munich security conference in which Sen. John McCain allegedly erupted at the German foreign minister, whom McCain thought was being insufficiently tough on the brutal regime in Belarus. There are, however, conflicting versions of the episode, and we should [...]
IvyGate and Gawker recently noted a recent incident of plagiarism at the Brown Daily Herald. Here’s the editors note: Last week, as part of its usual fact-checking process, The Herald discovered that two news articles scheduled for publication contained material taken from other sources’ reporting without quotation or attribution. The articles were never printed. The [...]
An Editor’s Note: In the Statesman’s Schools column on Wednesday’s Page B2 , the first three paragraphs of an item about school breakfasts were taken nearly verbatim from a news release by the Center for Public Policy Priorities. It is not the American-Statesman’s practice to print items from outside sources verbatim and without proper credit. [...]
An Editor’s Note: Yesterday’s front page picture of Maxine McKew has stirred considerable controversy. It was certainly not our intention to offend Ms McKew or our readers. The picture was chosen because the expressions on the faces of Ms McKew and John Howard captured perfectly the historic moment of the victor meeting the vanquished in [...]
After four-and-a-half months of re-reporting, long bouts of silence, and tangling with the US Army and various publications and bloggers, The New Republic today published a lengthy article by editor Franklin Foer that attempts to offer the magazine’s final word on the veracity of columns written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, its Baghdad Diarist. We’ll skip [...]
A columnist at the Brown Daily Herald, a student newspaper, has been fired after editors discovered that six of his columns included plagiarized material. The same writer also plagiarized in a letter to the editor that was recently published in the New York Times. The Times published an Editor’s Note yesterday, and the student paper [...]
An Editor’s Note: An illustration on Sept. 5 with a front-page article about the role the turmoil of the 1960s played in shaping Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political philosophy showed part of a letter of recommendation that a professor at Wellesley College wrote for her when she applied to Yale Law School. The letter was dated [...]
