Lawrence Wright’s cover story in the current edition of The New Yorker reports on the Church of Scientology … Wright tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross about the detailed fact-checking process his article went through — The New Yorker assigned five fact checkers to the story and sent the Church of Scientology 971 fact-checking queries before [...]
Few things in the world of magazines are the subject of as much lore as the New Yorker’s fact checking department. Many marvel over the magazine’s pedantic process for checking the facts in every article, caption, cartoon, poem and work of fiction. I dedicated a chapter of my book to fact checking, and recounted many [...]
If you were to indulge in a bit of stereotyping and imagine the country most likely to host a conference about the pedantic discipline of fact checking, you’d probably arrive on one likely location: Germany. And so it was that I spent the last weekend of March in Hamburg in the offices of the famous [...]
During my recent absence, there were a few notable incidents of plagiarism and fabrication. Here’s a quick round-up: Fabricated interviews. The New Yorker carried a trio of pieces about an Italian journalist caught fabricating a surprisingly large amount of interviews with famous writers. And a German magazine also admitted that it had published a fabricated [...]
On the Contributors page of the December 1st issue, the book “In Sickness and in Power,†attributed to the New Yorker writer David Owen, was in fact written by a different David Owen. Link Hat tip to Gawker. Report an error
This is an interesting twist on the correction. Writer Malcolm Gladwell has taken to his blog to publish a correction to one of his New Yorker articles. A correction will also appear in the magazine (see below), but he used the blog to make sure it gets out as soon as possible. The correction: To [...]
