We would like to apologise to the family of Paul McGuigan, who was killed in Iraq by Danny Fitzsimons from Rochdale, for the use of a photograph that appeared in Saturday’s M.E.N. We used a picture of Paul when we intended to use a picture of Danny Fitzsimons. Paul’s family have also asked us to [...]
Lots of folks are sending this in, so I figured I should publish it today, rather than wait until tomorrow: A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an article about how the original teen-girl tabloid has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in 1965, erroneously included a parody [...]
A report from the Erie Times-News about a lawsuit against the Erie Times-News: An Albion resident has sued the Erie Times-News, claiming the newspaper libeled him by mistakenly using his photograph to identify him as a robbery defendant a year ago. Gary N. Wiley is the plaintiff in the suit, in which the defendant is [...]
ON 9 February 2011, The Advertiser published an article titled "Road chiefs go head to head over truck safety''. The article was accompanied by a photograph of a truck that had been involved in a road collision. The photograph was taken from archive, and was used for dramatic effect. The Advertiser did not intend to [...]
In some editions Monday, a Money & Investing article about the Galleon insider-trading trial was incorrectly accompanied by a photo of Arindam Ghosh, a vice president at consulting firm Analysis Group. Because of incorrect information from Bloomberg News, he was misidentified as former Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel, a defendant in the Galleon case. In [...]
In some editions of Saturday's Herald a picture of Malcolm Williams, director of Outreach Media, was incorrectly identified as that of David Nicholls, president of the Atheist Foundation of Australia. Link This mistake takes on extra significance when you know that Outreach Media "exists to promote the Christian Gospel through various media channels and to [...]
A report in the Slap Shot hockey column on Dec. 26 misidentified the captain of the Dallas Stars who was praised for providing inspiration by playing with a badly broken nose. He is Brenden Morrow — not Brad Richards, a teammate. And because of that error, a quotation by Dallas Coach Marc Crawford was erroneously [...]
The Chicago Sun-Times ran the picture of the wrong baseball player on the front page of its Saturday sports section. Off the Bench explains: The print news business is a tough one, and there are thousands of chances for a screw-up in every edition that goes out. Some of those screw-ups are a little worse [...]
A PHOTOGRAPH that accompanied a story in yesterday's Daily News was not of the massage therapist Shannon O'Toole, but of a different woman, an author also named Shannon O'Toole, who wrote "Wedded to the Game: The Real Lives of NFL Women." That book, published by the University of Nebraska press in 2006, is a nonfiction [...]
An incorrect photograph appeared in the Magazine of December 4th last. The photograph was of the late John O Donoghue, an author and former priest. The photograph should have been of John O Donoghue, the poet and MIND Book of the Year winner. The error is regretted. Link Report an error
ON October 4 2010 we published a story about the death of the Chairman of Croydon Athletic FC, David Le Cluse. By mistake we used a picture of the former Chairman, Dean Fisher, with the story and indicated that he was David Le Cluse. We apologise to Mr Fisher and his family for our error. [...]
A news obituary Thursday for Morris Goodman, 85, a professor of anatomy and cell biology at Wayne State University, ran with a photo of attorney Morris Goodman, who is alive. The correct photo of the late professor is at left. From a report by a local Fox station about the mistake: Reading the obituary page [...]
In yesterday's edition, we incorrectly published a photograph of Brian Arkins, pictured above, in connection with a report about a court case in which serious criminal convictions were recorded against John Patterson (54) of Mourne Road, Drimnagh, Dublin. Our picture caption incorrectly described Mr Arkins as Mr Patterson. Mr Arkins has no connection whatsoever with [...]
On 21 July 2010 we published an article about terrorism in the UK which included photographs of eight men with the caption: "Liquid bomb plot – 2006". We wish to make it clear that one of those pictured, Donald Stewart-Whyte, right, was acquitted of all terrorism-related charges. We apologise for any distress caused by the [...]
The Independent (U.K.) is taking a lot of heat, and deservedly so, after making a major front page error this week. Here's the offending page, via the Guardian: The man in the image is reportedly Ljubomir Jurkovic. Here's how Croatian Times described the different between him and the man the Independent was talking about: Although [...]
IN Saturday's Evening Post we printed a photograph of a man in connection with a court case involving a disturbance after the Swansea V Cardiff football match on November 7 last year. The caption stated that the man pictured was Kevin Richards, one of the defendants. This was in fact incorrect. The man pictured was [...]
An article on Page 4 of Wednesday's Local section about an IRS inquiry into the Miccosukee Tribe's gambling profits was accompanied by an incorrect photograph of former Miccosukee tribal chairman Billy Cypress. The incorrect photograph depicted the late Billy L. Cypress of the Seminole Tribe, who founded the museum that holds the largest collection of [...]
The Press Gazette's Axegringer discovered an unfortunate photo choice made by a U.K. news website. From Axegrinder: The Iliffe News and Media-owned Cambridge News website opted for a curious choice of photo to illustrate a story about a woman who was subjected to verbal abuse on a train by thuggish Cardiff City football club fans.The [...]
We seem unusually fixed on putting photos of brown bears with stories about the Montana woman reported to have fended off a black bear with a courgette. Colour matters in this encounter because the North American black bear is held to be pleasanter than members of the brown bear family (pictured with Ursus zucchinius? 23 [...]
Alongside a story about the Palestinian-Israeli talks in Washington, a side panel showed some of the main people involved (Key figures at the White House, 2 September, page 22). In early editions, the thumbnail photo of "King Abdullah II" showed the king of Saudi Arabia instead of the king of Jordan. Link Report an error
DUE to a production error in yesterday's The Daily Telegraph, a photo of Hawthorn player Michael Osborne ran alongside a story pertaining to Hawks player Travis Tuck becoming the first AFL footballer to record a third strike under the league's drug code. Osborne is one of Hawthorn's longest serving players. The Daily Telegraph apologises [...]
A photo accompanying a Monday World News article about an alleged crackdown by Saudi Arabia on political activists was of Suliman al-Reshoudi, who is being detained by the government and is represented by Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association. In some editions, the caption incorrectly identified the man in the [...]
IN our edition dated Sunday August 15, we published an article under the headline "Attack-Row Uncle Shuns Niece's Vigil" which concerned Councillor Martin Connolly from Kilkeel. The article was accompanied by a photograph of Mr Desmond Kyle and not Councillor Martin Connolly as intended. We wish to make it clear that Desmond Kyle has no [...]
A photo that ran with a story yesterday about ascam artist taking advantage of local businesses was of the wrong person. Two men who share the same name and a similar appearance were mistaken for one another by multiple eyewitnesses. When a Tribune reporter presented a photo of Michael Lee Christopher Bishop, 27, to three [...]
A feature headlined Galley Slaves appeared in Weekend on 24 July, pages 22-27, comprising a collection of portrait photos of airline cabin staff and an individual account of what it’s like to do this type of work. We would like to clarify that the article was the account of one cabin member who was not [...]
