Newspaper apologizes for adding LOL to dead man’s photo caption
By Craig Silverman
• August 9, 2012
Twitter user Barry Taylor shared a very unfortunate photo caption error made by the Western Mail of Wales:
As reported by the U.K.'s Press Gazette, the tweet spread quickly. A spokesman for the paper's parent company told the Gazette:
The caption error in today’s Western Mail is under internal investigation. We apologise for any offence this error may have caused.
Hat tip to McClatchy Watch.
Craig Silverman (craig@craigsilverman.ca) is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Regret the Error, a blog that reports on media errors and corrections, and trends regarding accuracy and verification. The blog moved to The Poynter Institute in December 2011, and he joined as Adjunct Faculty. He also serves as Director for Content for Spundge, a content curation and creation platform used by newsrooms and other organizations.
Craig has been a columnist for the Toronto Star, Columbia Journalism Review, The Globe And Mail and BusinessJournalism.org. He’s the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift, and was part of the team that launched OpenFile.ca, a Canadian online news start-up. His journalism and books have been recognized by the Mirror Awards, National Press Club, Canadian National Magazine Awards, and the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
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