A Macy’s advertisement featuring Miami Heat merchandise was mistakenly published June 13 on page 11D in some editions of The Miami Herald. We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience. The offending ad was for Heat championship merchandise (click for larger): Kind of incredible, considering the Heat wouldn’t have been champions even if they [...]
The name of the elementary school winner of Thursday’s Miami Herald Spelling Bee was misspelled. Reva Dixit won first place at the competition for Miami-Dade and Monroe students. Link Via Testy Copy Editors. Report an error
In the Jan. 31 Business Monday, an article about the global interactive agency SapientNitro incorrectly stated the firm was working with Wikipedia. A company spokesperson said he misspoke, intending to mention Sneakerpedia, a website for Foot Locker. Link Report an error
A column by Fred Grimm in Thursday's edition of The Herald erroneously reported that former state Republican Party Executive Director Delmar Johnson had been charged with a crime in connection with the party spending scandal. Johnson has not been charged. Link A story on the Chu Vue murder trial on page B1 Thursday mischaracterized a [...]
The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was misspelled Monday in The Week Ahead column on the front of the Local section. The rolling hot dog will be in South Florida on Thursday, noon at UM and 3 p.m. at FIU, looking for drivers. Link Report an error
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
In Sunday’s special photography section in Issues & Ideas, staff photographer Marsha Halper’s service with The Miami Herald was misstated. Halper has been with the paper for 26 years. Link Report an error
Due to a copy-editing error, a story on Page 1A Saturday about a free-speech suit against the Miami-Dade state attorney incorrectly stated that teenager Leonardo Barquin fired a gun. Barquin was shot twice and collapsed before he bled to death. Link Report an error
A LOLcat infiltrated the Miami Herald’s content management system: Report an error
A story in Sunday’s Miami Herald incorrectly stated that Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter voted to shift millions of dollars in insurance risk from the owners of the Florida Panthers to the public at a time her husband lobbied for a Panthers-affiliated company. Ritter was not at the meeting when the measure passed. We regret the [...]
An article on Sunday’s front page about a fatal shooting Friday night in Liberty City erroneously said Brandon Mills, one of the two teens killed, had been arrested in 2006. The arrest record belonged to another Brandon Mills, who was not involved in Friday’s incident. In the same article, the name of Miami Fire Department [...]
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 Report an error
Edward Schumacher-Matos’ ombudsman column, which appeared Sunday on Page 1L, misspelled Miami Herald columnist Myriam Marquez’s name. Link Report an error
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 at bottom) [...]
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 Report an error
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 Report an error
An obituary that appeared Sunday on Page 5B of the Metro & State section misspelled the name of Miami Herald columnist Joan Fleischman. Link Report an error
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 Report an error
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Report an [...]
In a story Saturday on Page 1B, the name of former Miami Herald Executive Editor John McMullan was misspelled. Link Report an error
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, [...]
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. Report an error
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 [...]
