A news brief on Monday’s page 1, titled “Rugger overexposed in newspaper,” appears to have been wrong. What looked like a penis hanging out of a rugby player’s shorts in a Press-Republican sports photo now seems to be the shadow of the player’s hand on his thigh. Press-Republican Editor Bob Grady said he and his [...]
In last Thursday’s The Score column about superstar teen athletes, we ran a picture of a baseball player who we said was Bob Feller. It was really a picture of Ted Williams. Feller was pitching to Williams but was not in the photograph. Link Report an error
On Tuesday, 1 June, 2010, The Times of Nigeria published a story entitled, “Archbishop Of Benin City Resigns Over Child Sex Abuse,†regarding the resignation of Archbishop Richard Anthony Burke from the pastoral care of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis Benin City, Nigeria. The photograph used for the article is a photograph of Archbishop Raymond [...]
The picture published with the obituary of Lord Wolfson of Marylebone (Ecosse, last week) was that of Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale. We apologise for the error. Link Report an error
IN yesterday’s edition of the Irish Sun, we published a story about an arrest made by gardai in the investigation into the murder of innocent Noel Crawford. The photograph accompanying the story was stated to be a picture of the late Mr Crawford but it was in fact an image of the late Limerick criminal [...]
IN our report on April 25 last of the fatal shooting of Eamon Dunne, a photograph was captioned to identify the subject as the late Paul “Farmer” Martin, a well-known criminal, who was shot dead in the Jolly Toper in August 2009. Due to an error, the photograph was in fact of another Paul Martin [...]
A graphic on Page 4 of Tuesday’s main section listing Judge James Zagel’s notable trials included a photo of Frank Calabrese Sr. instead of Nicholas Calabrese. Also, the date of the Family Secrets trial in the graphic was incorrect. The trial was in 2007. Link Sure, seems like a normal kind of mix-up, expect that [...]
We wrote about the awarding of the Templeton prize to Francisco J Ayala, geneticist, molecular biologist and former Dominican priest. The photo shown with the story on the web page was fine – but on the newspaper page the person pictured was the Spanish writer Francisco Ayala, who died last year aged 103 (Monk turned [...]
A brief in World Report yesterday incorrectly depicted U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell with a photograph of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. The Post regrets the error. Link Does that mean they confused the two men? Or that the photo somehow depicted Mitchell in a strange way? Report an error
A PICTURE in the Serial Killers supplement captioned as Moors murder victim Lesley Ann Downey was, in fact, her friend Linda Clarke. (April 17, 2010). Report an error
Kudos to Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post for capturing this New York Times photo caption error (click for larger): Report an error
Some editions of Tuesday’s Spectator contained the wrong photo of Hamilton broadcaster Brian Williams. A picture of an NBC broadcaster of the same name ran in error. Link Report an error
A photograph in Thursday’s Toronto Sun incorrectly identified a woman as ex-stripper Suwalee Iamkhong leaving a hearing at the Immigration and Refugee Board. The Sun apologizes to the woman (who requested her name not be used) for any embarrassment. Report an error
THE picture of Randy Jackson shows the judge from American Idol and not Randy Jackson the brother of Michael. (First edition only – corrected in later editions, page 15, February 2). Report an error
In the Sunday Morning Post two days ago, we reported the death of Malaysia’s former king Sultan Iskandar Ismail. However, the accompanying picture was of King Syed Sirajuddin, who ruled between 2001 and 2006 and who is still alive. We apologise for the error and any misunderstanding it caused. Report an error
A photo caption in some editions of Monday’s Spectator incorrectly identified New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees as Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre. We apologize for the error. Link Report an error
A photograph published in the Toronto Sun Friday incorrectly identified a person who has the same name as a dead drug dealer. The photo showed Shawn James, winner of a Harry Jerome Award in 2005 and a social worker with UrbanPromise Toronto, a Christian-based community initiative working with children, youth and single mothers. He is [...]
On 20 December 2009 we published a story about Caroline Cartwight breaching her Asbo for noisy sex. However, the picture of her house was of a neighbouring property and the description of the house as ‘an end of terrace’ is incorrect. We are happy to set the record straight and apologise to Mrs Marjorie Ball [...]
An article titled “Ban For Russian Player” in last week’s Sunday Herald Sun about Ekaterina Bychkova’s (top) recent ban for match-fixing offences was accompanied incorrectly by a photograph of tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The Sunday Herald Sun apologises for the error, which resulted from an incorrect caption supplied by an international photo agency. Pavlyuchenkova (bottom) [...]
The Dec. 23, 2009, issue of The Post contained an article about Michael Jackson. In connection with the article, The Post printed the wrong picture of an individual named Terry George. The Terry George in the photo is a film and TV writer and director, whose credits include “Hotel Rwanda,” not the Terry George referred [...]
A photo of Arindam Ghosh, a vice president at consulting firm Analysis Group, appeared with a Wednesday article about the Galleon insider-trading case. Because of incorrect information provided by Bloomberg News, Mr. Ghosh was misidentified as Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel, a defendant in the Galleon case. Link Report an error
The Inquirer yesterday erred in publishing a photograph that accompanied a story on Judge Paul W. Tressler of Montgomery County Court. The photograph was not of the judge, shown at left, but of Howard Nevison, a sex offender sentenced by Tressler in 2006. The Inquirer regrets the error and apologizes. Link Thanks, David! Report an [...]
“Orient Express prepares for its final departure” (News, last week) was illustrated incorrectly with a publicity photograph of the private Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which, as the story was careful to point out, is unaffected by the scrapping of the Strasbourg-Vienna service. We apologise for the error. Link Report an error
This week the Peterborough Examiner in Ontario, Canada published this apology: Sometimes in life there is no other, or even better, word than sorry. In Monday’s paper a photograph was published that shouldn’t have appeared as it did and we are sorry. It certainly was not published intentionally. Some of our web readers did notice [...]
The caption to a photograph on page 7 of Saturday’s Times wrongly stated that it showed Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, when it was actually Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, former ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates. Link Report an error
