A front-page story (19 November) about the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s investigation into the shooting of Mark Duggan carried a seriously misleading headline in print and online. The story detailed developments in the IPCC investigation, which include findings that show there is no forensic evidence that Duggan was carrying a gun when shot, and that [...]
Oh typo: Original was here. Thanks, Corey! Report an error
An apology sent out by email to members of the IEEE and readers of its weekly Tech Alert email newsletter: Dear Members and Readers, Please accept our sincere apologies for the headline in today’s Tech Alert: “With the Arduino, Now Even Your Mom Can Program.” The actual title of the article is “The Making of [...]
THE Echo would like to apologise for last week’s page 13 article entitled ‘For Sale’ sign Goes Up On All Council Services. A quote from the council’s chief executive Geoff Parker should have read: “This is the first response looked at concerning a report last November talking about the level of reductions (facing the council) [...]
John Collado, the Inwood man shot and killed by police on Wednesday, was not an alleged drug dealer as suggested in the headline. Collado had intervened in the arrest of a neighbor, who police believed was dealing drugs, when he was shot. Report an error
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On Monday July 18th, 2011, we posted the headline on our Homepage, “Cash cab host kills pedestrian.” The headline should have read “Cash Cab involved in fatal accident.” We take these matters very seriously and deeply regret the error. Link Here’s a related story that explains the incident in question. Thanks, Andrew! Report an error
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From the Long Island Press: The story has been fixed, but no correction. Thanks, Liz! Report an error
Feel free to call me juvenile, but this is an unfortunate headline (spotted by Gawker): Reminds me of this from 2009: Report an error
Gawker, via Reddit, pointed out this unfortunate dummy text headline error in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Report an error
Writing headlines is an art – and a challenge. Nothing we do in the print trade comes in for more criticism. Headlines are believed to typify everything that has always been wrong with journalism – brash, stupid, shameless, addicted to forceful expression at the expense of factual accuracy and intellectual discrimination. It's all true, of [...]
The Tuesday edition of the Metro paper in Boston played up a recent Daily Beast survey that ranked the intelligence of different U.S. cities: Actually. Boston was ranked first overall. The paper tucked a small correction at the bottom of page two in yesterday's paper: But shouldn't a big front page error like that be [...]
A piece of correspondence on the letters page expressed the view that an attempt by Jewish activists on a sailing boat to break the sea blockade around Gaza this week had been important in "reasserting the Jewish tradition of standing up for the victims of injustice" (30 September, page 35). But due to an editing [...]
Note the headline (click for larger): Thanks, Deann! Report an error
An editing error resulted in the text and headline of a piece – about the rise of online films, documentaries and video logs – wrongly describing a forthcoming VBS.TV film, Afghanistan in the UK, as a spoof. Many of the online films discussed in the piece were also at odds with the headline description of [...]
The headline “Look ma, no steering – and no brakes” on page A6 yesterday, and the unattributed quote in the report that the headline was based on, were inaccurate. The prototype design of the electric tram does have brakes, and there are plans to install a computer-controlled steering system and more effective combo-brakes in the [...]
AN ARTICLE on page 15 of yesterday’s Daily Telegraqh was headlined “Wife killer a greedy devil”. At no stage during the sentence submissions of Mr Desmond Campbell did the Crown Prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi QC, describe Mr Campbell as “a greedy devil”. Report an error
A headline appearing within a March 30 story about the Catholic church incorrectly attributed a statement about alleged sexual abuse to Pope Benedict XVI. The statement was made by a German priest writing in The Times of London. Link WebNewser has some background: Under the article, “Losing Their Religion? Catholicism in Turmoil,” the related content [...]
On 7 March 2010, we published an article by Zoe Margolis. In part of the first edition of the newspaper and online, this article carried the headline, “I was a hooker who became an agony auntâ€. This was written by the newspaper not Ms Margolis. We accept that Ms Margolis is not and never has [...]
The headline `Table for two in an empty Mr. Chow”on the front of Sunday’s Tropical Life may have been misleading. The South Beach restaurant is open evenings only and was empty only during an afternoon interview with Eva Chow. Link Report an error
A headline, Who’s the big earner now? These days it’s probably the wife, say researchers (20 January, page 25), was not supported by the study results reported in the article: they showed that in 2007, 22% of US wives earned more than their husbands. That still leaves 78% who earned the same or less. Link [...]
In a story headlined LEWIS’ SON: ‘I BLAME MY MEAN, EVIL DAD FOR BROTHER’S DEATH’, released on 7 January (10), WENN suggests comedian Jerry Lewis may have been responsible for the death of his son, Joseph. We’d like to make it clear that this is not the case and that Joseph’s brother Gary thinks his [...]
The headline, Cops cleared in Taser death of former Selkirk man, in last week’s Journal was misleading. The article stated the medical examiner determined the suspect died from excited delirium brought on by drugs in his system; his death was not caused by the Taser. The Journal regrets the mistake and apologizes for it. Report [...]
THE headline on an article in The Australian yesterday (“Minister was a lobbyist for homes project”, page 6) may have implied that NSW Emergency Services Minister Steve Whan was employed to lobby on behalf of the Tralee project, near Canberra airport. In fact, as the article made clear, Mr Whan’s work for Endeavour Consulting, before [...]
