October 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
An obituary on Page 1B in Wednesday’s editions on former federal judge Joe O. Eaton gave his name incorrectly and misidentified him in the accompanying photograph. In the photo, Eaton is on the left. Link
September 12, 2008 – 8:00 am
Edward Schumacher-Matos’ ombudsman column, which appeared Sunday on Page 1L, misspelled Miami Herald columnist Myriam Marquez’s name. Link
August 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
In yesterday’s column about badminton, I misspelled the name of Guatemalan player Kevin Cordon. I apologize. In my defense, I want to note that in the same column I correctly spelled Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak, Poompat Sapkulchananart and Porntip Buranapraseatsuk. So by the time I got to Kevin Cordon, my fingers were exhausted. Link (correction [...]
An article about ways in which homeowners can stall foreclosures on their homes was accompanied by a photo caption that was misleading because a word was inadvertently dropped. Bankruptcy attorney Timothy Kingcade does not endorse deliberately stalling foreclosure processes. The editing error appeared on Friday’s front page. Link
A story that appeared Thursday on Page 6B mistakingly identified victim Guillermo Alvarez Jr. as having a high blood-alcohol content level. It was actually defendant Anthony Diaz. Link
An obituary that appeared Sunday on Page 5B of the Metro & State section misspelled the name of Miami Herald columnist Joan Fleischman. Link
Instructions for an editor were inadvertently left on Tuesday’s People page on 8A. The words ”LABEL HERE” should have read ”JUDGING JASON,” above a headline and story about Jason Taylor’s samba on Dancing with the Stars. The error was made in the newsroom production process. Link
February 28, 2008 – 5:41 pm
While preparing a column this week, Slate’s Jack Shafer stumbled upon an incident of plagiarism at the New York Times. Shafer wrote a column about the theft and the Times has now responded with an Editor’s Note:
A front-page article on Saturday described a cocaine epidemic in Argentina fed by the consumption of paco, an addictive [...]
February 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
A correction:
A story about the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s semiannual awards ceremony, which appeared on Page 2B of the Broward edition on Feb. 6, included several paragraphs that should have been attributed to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Details and quotations from the Sun-Sentinel story, including the comments of civilian honoree John Clark, were used in The [...]
February 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
An incorrect photograph was published on Page 2B Monday with a continuation of the Streetwise column on Metrorail’s North Corridor plan. Because of a newsroom production error, a picture of the late Jose Souto of Rowland Coffee accompanied the article instead of County Commissioner Javier Souto, whose photograph can be seen here. Link
February 5, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a story Saturday on Page 1B, the name of former Miami Herald Executive Editor John McMullan was misspelled. Link
November 8, 2007 – 8:00 am
An article that appeared Tuesday on Page 1B of Broward & State and Page 6B of Metro & State provided the wrong amount for federal money that was spent on gym equipment for Broward County firefighters. It was $6,410. The rest of an $86,410 federal grant was spent on a generator, rescue saws, hose nozzels, [...]
November 5, 2007 – 8:00 am
A brief front-page item referring readers to the Business section on Friday gave details of the wrong story. The item should have referred to Hilton winning a vote for its bid to build a 1,000-room convention hotel in Fort Lauderdale. The Paris Hilton item was published earlier this week.
October 29, 2007 – 7:00 am
Oct. 28—-An Oct. 1 story in the Metro & State and Broward & State sections about day laborers getting a new workers center in South Miami-Dade reported allegations against and criminal charges filed against Jorge Ramos. The Herald did not mean to say or imply Ramos was guilty of anything. The Herald has now learned [...]
An item in Tuesday’s People column on Page 4A contained incorrect information obtained from WENN Celebrity News on IMDB.com that Oprah Winfrey would be taking part in a documentary series in which she would live in a tough Chicago neighborhood for a month. Winfrey will not appear in any such series, and WENN has retracted [...]
