Regret the Error

A Tallahassee Democrat story spotted by Romenesko: Don Spille said he lost almost everything in Hurricane Katrina, including his home in Kenner, La., and his father, who lived in coastal Mississippi. The Tallahassee Democrat even ran a front-page story about Spille and his family Tuesday to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Katrina. But there [...]

Perhaps inspired by the remarkable 2004 apology from the Lexington Herald-Leader on the 40th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, another newspaper had offered up a belated apology 50 years after the fact. The Tallahassee Democrat recently ran a special section about the 1956 Tallahassee bus boycott. Included in the package was [...]