I previously wrote about MediaBugs, a Knight Foundation-funded project that I’m occasionally helping out as an unpaid advisor. It’s been up and running for a few weeks and the people running it — Scott Rosenberg and Mark Follman — are coming to grips with the challenge of finding the right person to listen to a [...]
Gun-control advocates praised Justice John Paul Stevens after he announced his retirement Friday. A Saturday front-page article about Justice Stevens’s retirement incorrectly said he had been hailed by gun-rights advocates. Link Report an error
An earlier version of this blog post said that Mr. Vangelakos touted taking out the garbage in the nude as a perk of living in an empty building. That was not correct. A different apartment dweller in California made that statement. We regret the error. Link Report an error
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
At a memorial gathering for Bruce Wasserstein, New York magazine editor Adam Moss described Mr. Wasserstein as having the “soul of a journalist and the wallet of a tycoon.” A Tuesday Deals & Deal Makers article about the memorial incorrectly quoted Mr. Moss as saying Mr. Wasserstein had “the heart of a tycoon.” Link Report [...]
A “Notice to Readers” on the paper’s website: A Nov. 10 “New Global Indian” online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine. In the column, “Homeward Bound,” about H-1B [...]
A headline on a U.S. News article Friday incorrectly implied that Northwestern University journalism professor David Protess has been accused of improprieties related to his program’s investigative projects, which have helped free wrongly imprisoned inmates. In fact, a filing by Illinois prosecutors contained allegations that his students had paid two informants. The students deny the [...]
Orthodox Jews were excluded from a study of marriages among Jews who made “birthright” visits to Israel because they were presumed to have a high rate of marriages within the faith. A U.S. News article about the study in some Monday editions incorrectly said Orthodox Jews weren’t included because they were presumed to have a [...]
Washington has executed four people since 1976, and Wyoming, 1. An interactive map published online Wednesday evening incorrectly said each state had carried out 27 executions. The graphic has been corrected. Link Thanks, Rhonda! Report an error
The Chevy Volt will run for about 40 miles on electricity and about 300 miles using both electricity and gasoline. A graphic accompanying an Aug. 6 U.S. News article on stimulus grants for the electric-vehicle industry incorrectly said the car’s combined range was 1,000 miles. Link Report an error
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman and chief executive who is exploring a run for the U.S. Senate in California, is pro-life on the abortion issue. A Saturday U.S. News article misstated her position as pro-choice. Link Report an error
David Matayabas, a member of the Communications Workers of America, was referring to opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care proposals when he spoke of "ill-informed" and "not very smart" protesters "regurgitating talking points of Rush Limbaugh." A Wednesday U.S. News article incorrectly implied that Mr. Matayabas was referring to fellow union members. The article [...]
Seymour Hersh has come out swinging against false reports claiming that he told an Arab TV station that Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered the assassination of for Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Raw Story has a report in which the Pulitzer winner decries articles that completely fabricated comments attributed to him. Raw Story notes [...]
Barneys New York said it has no plans to close any flagship stores and it hasn’t engaged in any conversations with its landlords about closures. A Marketplace article Wednesday, for which Barneys couldn’t be reached to comment, said the company was seeking to break leases on two stores, including the Shoppes at the Palazzo in [...]
Students at the University of Rochester recently met in a single school building for several hours to show solidarity with Gaza, and they did so under normal university procedures. A de gustibus column on Feb. 27 mistakenly said students had “occupied buildings” and a March 3 letter to the editor mistakenly characterized the event as [...]
Santa Rosa Chevrolet, an auto dealership in Santa Rosa, Calif., isn’t seeking taxpayer assistance and has no plans to consolidate or close, according to Aytac Ercen, director of operations for Ferro Automotive Group, which owns the dealership. Photos of the dealership were incorrectly published with a Jan. 26 U.S. News article on California towns offering [...]
A page-one article Wednesday about Little Rock, Ark.’s namesake rock was accompanied in some editions by a picture of a man named Andre Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd wasn’t mentioned in the article. Link Report an error
A page-one article Tuesday about Barack Obama incorrectly stated the last president to hail from Illinois was Abraham Lincoln. President Obama was born in Hawaii, President Lincoln in Kentucky. Both were Illinois residents when they took office. Ulysses Grant was born in Ohio and an Illinois resident when elected. Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois [...]
The estimated size of the crowd at Dwight Eisenhower’s inaugural ceremony in 1957 was 750,000 people. A graphic that ran with the Numbers Guy column on Jan. 9 incorrectly labeled the figure as 750. Link Report an error
The name of home furnishings retailer Bed Bath & Beyond was misspelled as Bed Beth & Beyond in a Marketplace article Friday on retail liquidations. Link Thanks, Jack! Report an error
Saparmurat Niyazov, former president of Turkmenistan, died in December 2006, not last Thursday as was incorrectly stated in a photo caption that accompanied a Monday page-one article about political changes in the country. In addition, the photo came from the Associated Press, not AFP/Getty Images, which was incorrectly credited. Link Report an error
Specialty-retail chain Martin & Osa continues to operate. A Weekend Journal article Saturday about Michelle Obama’s style incorrectly said the chain is out of business. Link Report an error
A photo accompanying the U.S. Watch column in Wednesday’s paper showed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announcing the arrest of former Chicago police Lt. Jon Burge, who is accused of lying about the torture of murder suspects. The accompanying caption failed to make clear that the photo showed Mr. Fitzgerald, not Mr. Burge. Link Report an [...]
Merrill Lynch spent $1.2 million on federal lobbying in the third quarter of 2008, $920,000 in the second quarter and $1.3 million in the first quarter of the year. Morgan Stanley spent $690,000 on such lobbying in the second and third quarters of 2008, up from $600,000 in the first quarter. Wells Fargo spent $515,740 [...]
Due to a typographical error, a previous version of this article said that the amount of losses from Monday’s market collapse was $1,300 trillion. The correct amount is $1.3 trillion. Link Thanks, Daryl! Report an error
