In early editions of the paper an article said that under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, manufacturing fell from constituting just over a fifth of the economy to 22.5%. What it meant to say was – as later editions made clear – that manufacturing fell from being just over a quarter of the economy (New Mandelson rediscovers Old Labour’s love for industry, 4 December, page 33). Link
The story headlined “HIV screening kicks off on theatrical note” on page A4 on Wednesday wrongly stated that only 56 people in Hong Kong had developed Aids since 1984. There have been 1,086 cases.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the federal debt has now reached $500 billion, not $5 trillion as was reported in The Recorder and times yesterday. Sun Media 
LAST week’s NIE resource on Science questions answered by CSIRO incorrectly stated that there are 12 zeros in one billion billion. There are 24 zeros if a million times a million is doubled. Many now regard a billion as a thousand times a million. This would be 18 zeros when doubled.
An article on Nov. 1 about libraries with rare-book collections open to the public misstated the period of time covered by Oscar Wilde’s college notebook, at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. It was written during 1876 and 1878, not 1876 and 1978. And because of an editing error, the article rendered incorrectly part of the Latin title of Galileo’s “Starry Messenger,” at the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, Mo. It is “Sidereus Nuncius,” not “Sidereus Nucius.” 
Washington has executed four people since 1976, and Wyoming, 1. 
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. 
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.Editor
What I'm Reading
- Toyota Demands Retraction and Apology From ABC News Over Manufactured Death Ride - Toyota - GawkerGawker | March 19, 2010
- Ex-Daily Beast writer admits plagiarism - Crain's New York BusinessCrain's New York Business | March 17, 2010
- NSFW: 'Tis Pity We Called Her A Whore - And Other Ineffectual Digital ApologiesTechCrunch | March 15, 2010
- Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News SourceReadWriteWeb | March 15, 2010
- Jeffrey Goldberg: 'Atlantic's Web site has no fact-checking standards'stinkyjournalism.org | March 15, 2010"Andrew Sullivan should be thankful that The Atlantic's fact-checking department has no purview over the magazine's Web site. The magazine's fact-checkers vet each word that appears in the print magazine for accuracy and context, but because they have no authority over blogs (or anything else produced for the Web)"
- Georgian Invasion - Fake Russian News - Panic | Mediaitemediaite.com
- Kimberly Butler: Is the Medium the Message? The New Media WatchdogsThe Huffington Post | March 8, 2010
- Dealbreaker Set a Plagiarism Trap That Snared Times' Kouwe - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNYmediabistro.com | March 8, 2010
- Poland's ace reporter Ryszard KapuBci4ski accused of fiction-writing | Books | The GuardianGuardian | March 2, 2010
- The Public Editor - Journalistic Shoplifting -NYTimes.comThe New York Times | March 7, 2010
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