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Osama who?

April 28, 2008 – 8:00 am

A Datebook story Saturday about Arianna Huffington misspelled the name of Osama bin Laden.

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Your comic is gay

February 29, 2008 – 8:00 am

In a story Friday in Datebook, the date of the first Boy Trouble comic was incorrect. The series began in 1994. Also, Justin Green’s Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary was not a gay comic. Link

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Try, try again

January 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

A caption accompanying a photo of Chelsea Clinton on Monday misidentified the girl with whom she was talking, and a correction on Tuesday misspelled her name. The girl was ReNeen Williams. LinkThanks, Mad Dog!

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Fun with photos

November 14, 2007 – 8:00 am

Two photos of a Menlo Park house in the Nov. 4 Chronicle Magazine were modified by the source, without the paper’s knowledge, to eliminate solar panels from the roof. The Chronicle’s policy is that photographs should represent reality precisely and accurately. Link

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The corrections go audio

January 30, 2007 – 8:00 am

Our recent post about the state of online corrections was published before an inspired project by the San Francisco Chronicle. The paper is, as far as we know, the first newspaper in the world to introduce audio corrections. Last week it launched Correct Me If I’m Wrong, a regular podcast that will feature selected [...]

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Attention journalists everywhere: James Dobson is not a minister

May 19, 2006 – 8:01 am

Our obsessive cataloging of corrections occasionally enables us to spot a pattern. Whether it’s the failure of newspapers to identify someone they initially misidentified in a photo, or the inability of newspapers to accurately report on, well, newspapers, we sometimes feel as though we’re listening to a broken record. Such was the case when we [...]

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SF Chronicle misidentifies cab driver as controversial police officer; error undermines paper’s series on the SFPD

February 7, 2006 – 10:19 pm

The San Francisco Chronicle is facing a potential lawsuit after it made a major misidentification error in a high profile Sunday story.
As part of a series of articles on the local police department’s use of force policy, the paper ran a photo of a man it identified as SFPD Sgt. John Haggett, an officer that [...]

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Plagiarism at The Chronicle and IHT

January 12, 2005 – 8:01 am

The San Francisco Chronicle has run a correction stating that a freelance journalist plagiarized (though they don’t use that word) from an article that originally appeared in The Guardian back in November. It also notes that the article first appeared in the International Herald Tribune — but we can’t find any notice from that paper [...]

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