An article on Nov. 24 about the photographer Steven Klein misstated the year that the magazine Dutch published pictures showing men being brutally handcuffed by police. The photographs appeared in the May-June 2002 issue, not in 2003. The article also erroneously included an American actor among the men shown in the pictures. Dutch did not [...]
An article on Thursday about a push to ban horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park misstated part of the name of an organization to which an upstate New York veterinarian belongs, and it described the carriages incorrectly at one point. The veterinarian, Dr. Nena Winand, is a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners, [...]
Thirty years ago, a cub reporter for the New York Times was given his first assignment: “to cover the failure of the old transmitter of Columbia University’s radio station, WKCR-FM, which was then perched on 515 Madison Avenue, at 53rd Street.” David W. Dunlap was brought back to the memory of that first Times byline [...]
An obituary last Sunday about Basil D’Oliveira, the South African cricket player, misstated Mr. D’Oliveira’s age when he immigrated to England. He was in his late 20s, not ”well into his 30s.” The obituary also misstated the first year the South African cricket team played an international match after South Africa canceled a visit by [...]
An article on Wednesday about the expansion of a federal program meant to help some homeowners whose home values have declined sharply misstated, in some editions, the amount of spending power that would be added to the American economy if 10 million more homeowners refinanced and saved an average of $200 a month. It is [...]
I recently blogged some proofreading tips from the New York Times, and now the paper is back with some new advice. This time the topic is misspelled names, which has long been a problem for the paper. Here are the latest stats on the Times and its name issue: My colleague Greg Brock reports that [...]
An article on Monday about the possibility that San Francisco voters may elect the city’s first Chinese-American mayor today misstated the name of the news organization that reported on the possible issues in the campaign of Edwin M. Lee, a longtime city official now serving as interim mayor. It is The Bay Citizen, not The [...]
An article on Oct. 20 about the musician and record producer Nile Rodgers and his new memoir referred incompletely to an anecdote he told about suffering ”cocaine psychosis” on what he said was the last day he used drugs, a day he visited the hotel suite of Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. Mr. [...]
A critic’s notebook article on Monday about an academic conference at the University of Chicago on the television show ”Jersey Shore” referred imprecisely to a comment made by Candace Moore, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan who spoke about the friendship between Vinny and Pauly D. She linked the quest for ”stranger sex” [...]
IN yesterday’s report concerning three fatal road traffic accidents, a photograph purportedly of Aoife Ivers, who was injured in an accident near Portumna, was in fact of her friend, Gemma Hayde. Ms Hayde was not involved in the accident. We are happy to correct the position and apologise for any confusion caused. A picture in [...]
An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of Herman Cain as McCain. Link Thanks, Dave! Report an error
The Practical Traveler column last Sunday, about safaris in Africa, misidentified one of the animals that make up the Big Five, which many visitors hope to see there. The Big Five consist of the elephant, rhinoceros, lion, leopard and the African, or Cape, buffalo — not the water buffalo, which is not found in Africa. [...]
The Barrow Journal article on Oct. 17, about the fall subsistence whale hunt in Barrow, Alaska, misstated a greeting exchanged between the captain of a crew that killed a whale and a crowd onshore. They shouted ”aarigaa” at each other — an Inupiaq word meaning ”very good.” The captain did not shout, and the crowd [...]
An obituary on Saturday about John M. Blum, the presidential historian and author of an influential biography of Theodore Roosevelt, referred incorrectly to Roosevelt’s family. His wife and mother died in 1884, but his daughter Alice, who was born that year, lived until 1980. Roosevelt did not lose ”his wife, newborn daughter and mother in [...]
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,” a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds. Link So many folks were sending this by email and Twitter that I thought I’d get it [...]
A report in the ”Arts, Briefly” column on Thursday about finalists for the National Book Awards, including the novel ”The Buddha in the Attic,” by Julie Otsuka, misstated the book’s subject matter. It is about Japanese ”picture brides” brought to the United States nearly a century ago; it is not about the postwar Japanese-American experience. [...]
Patrick LaForge’s official title at the New York Times is editor of news presentation. In a practical sense, he oversees the copy desks at the paper. (His Twitter account is also worth a follow.) I met LaForge in person in the spring when I gave an error prevention workshop at the Times. (I offered to [...]
Reading the coverage leading up to — and during! — today’s Apple iPhone event, you’d be forgiven if you thought Apple had an iPhone 5. It doesn’t. The new phone is the iPhone 4S. And yet look at all of this iPhone 5 language in Google News: The live blogs were some of the worst [...]
An article on Thursday about the family seltzer-delivery business of Walter Backerman, who is helped by his 14-year-old son Joey, misspelled the name of a celebrity on ”Jersey Shore” whom Joey likes. The celebrity is Snooki, not Snookie. Link Report an error
A music review on Sept. 5 about the Rock the Bells hip-hop show on Governors Island, where 11 albums were performed in their entirety, included several errors. The rapper who made the album “Heavy Mental” is Killah Priest, not Killa Priest. The album by Raekwon re-enacted at the concert is “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx,” [...]
An article on Monday about the excitement in the Russian republic of Dagestan generated by an elite Cameroonian soccer player hired by an obscure club there that is owned by Sulyman Kerimov, a Russian oligarch, misstated the salary of the player, Samuel Eto’o. He is being paid $30 million per season, not $30 million over [...]
The Media Equation column on Monday, about the growing popularity of niche media sites on the Web, misstated the terms of The New York Times’s arrangement with Nate Silver’s political blog FiveThirtyEight. The blog is licensed by The Times; it was not acquired, and the blog reverts to Mr. Silver at the conclusion of the [...]
An article in some editions on Nov. 25 about a dispute involving turkeys sold at farmers’ markets in New York by Tamarack Hollow Farm contained several errors. The financier who invested in the farm, Michael Liebis, was born in Israel, not Brooklyn. And while Mr. Liebis and Mike Betit, the owner of the farm, in [...]
An obituary on Friday about Michael Hart, who founded Project Gutenberg, the world’s oldest and largest collection of e-books, misstated Mr. Hart’s source for the term replicator, which he adopted to describe how e-books would allow for the infinite reproduction of books. It comes from the television show ”Star Trek,” not the film ”Star Wars.” [...]
An article on Aug. 14 about the Greek island of Hydra, which has become a stronghold of contemporary artists, misstated the distance of the island from Athens and the body of water that diners at a taverna there would have seen. It is about 45 miles from Athens, not 120 miles, and the taverna would [...]
