Washington has executed four people since 1976, and Wyoming, 1. An interactive map published online Wednesday evening incorrectly said each state had carried out 27 executions. The graphic has been corrected. Link
Thanks, Rhonda!
Heather Holmes of Brad J. Lamb Realty represented Dale Sonier in his purchase of retail space for his Toronto sewing store. The space is 3,400 square feet, not 34,000 square feet as reported in Tuesday’s Property Report. 
Because of an editing error, a report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Wednesday about Monday night’s television ratings misstated the change in the size of the audience for “Dancing With the Stars,” on ABC, compared to the previous Monday night. It increased by 400,000; it did not decline by more than a million. 
In the audio version of this story, Howard Berkes said that Elizabeth Smart gave her testimony 6,659 days after she had been abducted. He actually had calculated the correct number as 2,659 days but misspoke when he recorded the radio story. 
A Sept. 25 article about the proposed TTC 2010 capital budget incorrectly stated the amount needed to maintain the current system as $949 billion. In fact, $949 million will be needed to maintain the current system. 
In a Sept. 22 story about a postal worker pleading guilty to stealing Netflix DVDs, The Associated Press misstated the number of DVDs stolen. Myles Weathers pleaded guilty to stealing more than 3,000 DVDs, not 30,000. 
A Sept. 22 
CORRECTION: In our June/July 2009 article "10 Ways to Save Your Child’s Life," we incorrectly stated that about 115 children reported missing each day are the victims of "stereotypical" kidnappings. The correct statistic is about 115 each year. We regret the error.
A factual matter regarding the Leibovitz story. Goldman wrote in regard to a loan agreement that Leibovitz entered into with a company called Art Capital that, "Under the terms of the agreement, says a person familiar with the loan, Art Capital could be entitled to up to 22.5 percent of all the proceeds from the sale of any of Leibovitz’s work-even for two years after she’s paid off the loan. And that percentage could increase to close to 50 percent if she were to default." New York Magazine has since learned that those numbers were erroneous. The actual commission rates on the sale of the collateral underlying the loan are 10 percent on Leibovitz’s real estate and 15 percent on the sale of her work. In the event Leibovitz defaults on the loan, a default commission of 25 percent, and after costs as low as 14 percent, would be realized. New York regrets the error. 
The £1.99 Lawson’s Dry Hills Marlborough Riesling 2006 listed in the wine column isn’t quite the bargain we made out (Wine, page 45, Weekend, 15 August). Minus its typographical error the price is £9.99, and, contrary to information supplied to us, Majestic is not stocking it. The Colchester Wine Company (thewinecompany.co.uk) does have a supply, albeit limited.
On page 2 of the July 23 paper and page 12 of the July 24 paper, the Earnings Calendar chart misstated SunTrust Banks Inc.’s per-share loss for the second quarter. It lost 41 cents, not $4.41. A typographical error was to blame.
Oops! We seriously inflated our figures in the editorial of July 23. According to Corrections Minister Judith Collins, there were 8434 people in prisons or police stations on July 13. The prison population is forecast to rise to around 10,700 by 2016. If that forecast is realised, we then will have 2266 more people in prison. At $100,000 per prisoner per year, this would have increased the burden on taxpayers by $226,600,000 in 2016, lifting the cost to $1.070 billion – not $8 billion as we said. We muffed our maths but maintain our position: every dollar saved by finding alternative punishments could be spent on providing other public services, such as the five new schools and 69 additional state houses to be built as part of the Government’s almost $500 million infrastructure package announced in February.
Correction: Because of incomplete information supplied by the city, an item in Thursday’s "g" erroneously reported that admission to tomorrow’s Rose Garden Party at the Kelleher Rose Garden is free. Tickets are $125. 
AN ARTICLE entitled Class Wins IMO Battle Over Standards Self-Assessment (Lloyd’s List, June 12), contained an error regarding the amount of time that Lloyd’s Register, the classification society, argued it might take to verify full compliance to global standards under an original, now discarded plan. The estimated time span was up to 10 years, not 90 years. 
In “Waiting for the buses” by Cosmo Garvin (
Last week’s story on the Stone Oak Rotary Club’s donation to SAMMinistries was in the amount of $2,500, not $25,000 as stated. Also, Rotarian Bob Bordelon is the club’s current president, not vice president as stated. We apologize for any confusion that the errors may have caused.Editor
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- 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
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- 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
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