Bel-Air mansion: An article in Friday’s Section A about the Bel-Air mansion that is the most expensive sold in the U.S. this year was published with a photograph of another house and some of the details related to that house. The photo of the correct house is shown here. The exterior of the mansion does [...]
In a May 28 story, msnbc.com incorrectly stated that Indiana Republican Senate candidate Dan Coats had been a lobbyist from 2000 until early this year. In fact, he was a lobbyist from 2005 until early this year. The story incorrectly included Goldman Sachs as a firm for which Coats lobbied. In fact, the lobbying disclosure [...]
An obituary in some copies on May 9 about Walter J. Hickel, the former governor of Alaska and United States secretary of the interior, included several errors. Mr. Hickel graduated from Claflin High School in Kansas; he was not a high school dropout. The 1994 book “The Wit and Wisdom of Wally Hickel†was a [...]
An article on Monday about compensation paid to executives of major cultural organizations in New York and some other cities referred incorrectly to pay received recently by executives at the Metropolitan Opera and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The $1.3 million cited for Peter Gelb, general manager of the opera, reflects his total compensation, including [...]
Corrections In “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church,” we reported that Timothy Dolan is a cardinal. In fact, he is archbishop of New York. In “What Went Wrong,” we mistakenly credited the portrait of Pope Benedict XVI. The painter is Suan Seh Foo. And in “Cleaning Up Dirty Police in Russia,” we reported that [...]
In early editions, a typographical error left a biographical panel about Corin Redgrave – Life and times, 7 April, page 13 – giving the actor’s birthdate as 1969, instead of 1939. In later editions, a revised version of the piece corrected this, but went on to say: “Redgrave was married twice, to Deidre Hamilton-Hill, from [...]
The geologist Arthur Holmes was described in the My Hero column (27 February, Review, page 5) as “a little-known scientist from a now defunct department at Nottingham University”. He was professor of geology at Edinburgh University, having previously been a lecturer at Imperial College London and reader at Durham University. A reader notes: “He has [...]
There were two errors in my column for Jan. 10 — the one that began by quoting Shakespeare: “First let’s kill all the lawyers.” Contrary to appearances, Nancy Pelosi was never a lawyer. And, the U.S. Senate majority leader, though a lawyer, is not “Bill” Reid. I keep confusing him with the famous shoe bomber, [...]
A House of Delegates measure that would eliminate the Virginia Commission for the Arts in two years would take effect only if both General Assembly houses agree to make it part of the completed state budget. A headline Thursday was incorrect on this point. Also, several figures in the story and accompanying graphics were incorrect [...]
This correction was appended the the latest edition of my weekly column for Columbia Journalism Review: The original version of this column stated the Daily Beast used iThenticate to check Gerald Posner’s articles for plagiarism. Robert Creutz says he is unaware of the specific nature of the material the Beast was checking with the service. [...]
An obituary on Jan. 29 about the author J. D. Salinger referred incorrectly to one element in the plot of his short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.†The character Seymour Glass commits suicide while on vacation with his wife, not while on his honeymoon. (The error also appeared in a news article on Aug. [...]
A story in the Play section Thursday about Transistor, an eclectic shop and hangout in Chicago, had several errors. The shop does not sell custom-crafted guitar pedals. The customer who said Transistor “is entrepreneurial, artistic activism” was incorrectly identified; the speaker was Joe Shanahan. The shop was not inspired by a visit to Berlin. And [...]
We described “a point on the Ataturk bridge (in Istanbul) where you can have one foot in Europe, the other in Asia. . .”, but the bridge spans the Golden Horn, not the Bosphorous. And we took 1,000 years off Aya Sofya, the Church of the Divine Wisdom, which was built in the 6th, not [...]
The folks at the NYTPicker, a blog that reports on the New York Times, took special notice of the corrections page in today’s paper. It is worth highlighting, as the Time published 36 corrections. (I recently profiled the NYTPicker for PBS MediaShift.) Sunday is the biggest day for Times corrections. It’s when the paper corrects [...]
An article last Sunday about the death of Edward M. Kennedy in August misstated the length of his tenure in the Senate. He served 47 years, not 46 years. (The error appeared in Mr. Kennedy’s obituary and another article, about memories of the Senator, on Aug. 27, and also in an editorial that day. The [...]
An article in some editions on Nov. 25 about the long-term future of the New Jersey Nets misstated the year that the developer Bruce C. Ratner bought the team. It was 2004, not 2003. (The error also appeared in articles on June 5, June 29 and Sept. 24.) The article also misstated the year that [...]
In the Nov. 7 article that ran in Globe T.O., T.o.night No Afternoon Delight, several errors were made. The newspaper consists of 30 per cent advertising, not 50 per cent as written, and most, not all, of its content comes from wire services. Its proprietor, John Cameron, attended the University of Western Ontario three years [...]
An article in some editions on Wednesday about Michael R. Bloomberg’s narrow victory in the New York mayoral race referred incorrectly to a voter who said Mr. Bloomberg “ran a smear campaign against a nonexistent opponent.†The voter, Stav Brinbaum, is a woman. The article also misstated, in some copies, the age of a second [...]
An obituary said that Al Martino’s birth name was Alfred Cini Martino, that he recorded his first hit, Here in My Heart, for the Capitol record label, and that four years later (1956) his version of Volare was released. He was actually born Alfred Cini, recorded Here in My Heart for a small independent company [...]
Errors appeared in an interview with Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, who own Frieze magazine and the events company that stages the Frieze art fair. In connection with part of the piece that quoted them talking about founding the contemporary art magazine, it has been pointed out to us that the masthead of the first [...]
The article “Beware of Big Ideas: Newly nervous post-Soviet states crack down on Western schools” (Aug. 10 & 17) contained several errors. The article stated that the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (known as KIMEP) recently laid off 30 professors. The correct number is 20. The article also stated that KIMEP spent [...]
Ashcroft ruling: An article on Saturday’s Page A1 about a federal appeals court ruling involving former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft inaccurately described the breadth of the court’s decision and mischaracterized some elements of the case. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday held that Ashcroft could [...]
There are a few corrections that need to be made regarding two stories in the August, 2009 edition featuring Newco Tank Corp. The first story, “All systems are go for launch of patented Newco tank,†page C11, spoke about Newco’s new production tank design that features the engine package inside the tank, and using its [...]
An article on the Square Feet pages on Wednesday about distress in the commercial real estate sector incorrectly paraphrased a comment by Richard Parkus, a research analyst for Deutsche Bank, about recent market trends. He said that office vacancies are increasing and rents are decreasing, not the other way around. The article also misstated the [...]
William Clark, co-founder of The Baby Einstein Company, has asked us to correct several mistakes in a story headlined Baby genius videos make money, not sense (14 July, page 3, Education). The company was launched in 1996 not 1997. The video Baby Mozart was released in 1998, not 2000. Baby da Vinci was produced after [...]
