Due to an editing error, a quote in a story last Saturday about Naomi Klein was wrongfully attributed to Avi Lewis. Mr. Lewis was not interviewed for the story. Link
Lewis and Klein are married.
An August 4 article on the effect parasites have on sexual reproduction attributed a quote to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In fact, the quote was from another Matthew Broderick movie, WarGames.
A quotation on the perspectives page in the April 13 edition of NEWSWEEK incorrectly attributed an expletive to Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, during his recent appearance on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” In fact, it was Stewart who uttered the swear word. We 
In some editions, a story about the filming of a made-for-TV tanker-truck explosion in San Francisco misattributed a quote. The spectator who responded to the question “What kind of person spends half a day waiting for a fake explosion?” by saying, “Losers. … You better put a ‘LOL’ laughing out loud after that,” should have been identified as Shane Gilman of San Francisco. 
A March 1 Style article incorrectly stated that Keith Olbermann described Karl Rove as having “a head like a lump of unbaked bread dough.” That comment was made by Jon Stewart.
A pull-out quote on Page 4 of the Ottawa Sun in a story entitled Dangerous Liaisons was attributed to the wrong person. “It could be plying a woman with alcohol or … she may have been slipped a drug.” Dr. Janice Du Mont made this statement.
The article “Immortality 2.0″ (January-February 2009) contained two errors. The quote, “For those of us who don’t believe in God, this is a sort of religion,” was misattributed to Tyler Emerson of the Singularity Institute. Emerson is not the source of this quote and does not hold this view.
We attributed the quotation “Pecunia non olet” (money has no smell) to Horace. In fact it was the Roman historian Dio Cassius who recorded the reply made by the Emperor Vespasian to complaints about a tax on public lavatories. As a result, public urinals in France have been known as “vespasiennes” (Show us the money, 11 February, page 30). 
The Medium column on June 8, about online lists, misattributed a quotation published in Time magazine about literary lists. It was Lev Grossman who wrote that they “are basically an obscenity,” not Tom Wolfe. 
ON November 3 and 4, 2005, The Australian published two prominent articles which made serious allegations against Sheik Abdul Salam Zoud on the basis of a speech the articles claimed he delivered. That speech was, in fact, delivered by someone else.
Because of a reporting error, a March 23 City Weekly article about the new 
A story published March 13 about the fallout after Geraldine Ferraro said Barack Obama’s success was due to his colour quoted Hillary Clinton as saying Ferraro’s comments were “ridiculous” and “wrong-headed.” In fact, Obama described Ferraro’s remarks that way. 
An item in the Periscope section of the Jan. 21 issue mischaracterized New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s use of the phrase “shuck and jive” as a direct reference to the political style of Sen. Barack Obama. In fact, Cuomo, a Hillary Clinton supporter, was speaking in broad terms about how candidates interact with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a review of the transcript by The New York Times.
Obama in Las Vegas: An article in Saturday’s Section A misquoted presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as saying, “Since I’m in Las Vegas, I’m going to say: I’m the jackpot.” Obama said, “I hit the jackpot.”
A quote by Lakers coach Phil Jackson reported in yesterday’s Daily News was incorrectly identified as being said about Kobe Bryant. Jackson was instead speaking about Knicks coach Isiah Thomas. 
Yesterday’s Extra featured a piece by Professor Wiseman on recent media coverage of The World Cancer Research Fund’s report on cancer prevention, which we puffed on the front page as ‘Bacon sarnies are good for you – official’. We have been asked to make clear that neither Professor Wiseman nor WCRF have ever suggested that bacon sandwiches are good for you. 
Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in Sunday’s City & Region section about Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s speech to the Sabeel Conference in Boston said that pro-Israel protesters could be heard inside the hall. While chants from the street could be heard, it was not possible to discern their source, and protesters with a variety of agendas were gathered outside the Old South Church, where the conference was held. 
A pullout of statements made during Sunday night’s Republican debate misattributed a comment on health care to Ron Paul. It was Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who said: “When all the old hippies find out they can get free drugs, just wait to see how much that is going to cost us.” 
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- Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs Defining what's good in digital journalismJournalism 2.0 | November 5, 2009
- New York Times Goofs, Includes Editor's Internal Notes In iPhone News Article (NYT, AAPL)Silicon Alley Insider | November 4, 2009
- The Public Editor - Recession, Revolution and a Leaner Times - Op-Ed - NYTimes.comThe New York Times | November 1, 2009"Now, with an around-the-clock news cycle, reporters file throughout the day, and copy can be edited over a smoother cycle, she said. That is the goal, but the editing staff is dealing with much more copy than before, some online articles are now read by a single editor instead of four or five, and I hear regularly from readers complaining about errors in grammar, spelling and word usage."
- Reuters Editors Blog Archive Are we now too speedy for our own good? | Blogs |Reuters UK | October 27, 2009
- Newspapers want readers' help with Web credibility | Business news | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleHouston Chronicle | October 30, 2009
- Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism - NYTimes.comThe New York Times | October 28, 2009
- The Future of Publishing? Trust and Curation, Says the Founder of Craigslist The Scholarly KitchenThe Scholarly Kitchen | October 26, 2009
- Bob Sutton: Reducing Interruptions and Saving Lives: New Study on Drug Treatment Errorsbobsutton.typepad.com | October 28, 2009Very good lessons here for journalists as well.
- 25 things journalists can do to future-proof their careers | Blog | EconsultancyEconsultancy | August 26, 2009
- CNBC: We're Not Going To Apologize For Blowing Friday's Microsoft News (GE)The Business Insider | October 26, 2009
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