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.
The Sun today issued an apology that combines aliens, Scientology and British tabloid wit to deliver a classic of the genre:
In an article on Saturday headlined ‘Flying saucers over British Scientology HQ’, we stated “two flat silver discs” were
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For years, there’s been talk about the need for a Twitter correction tool. Early in 2011, not long after the Tucson, Ariz., mass shooting that severely injured congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Poynter convened an online chat about handling incorrect tweets. It … Read more
The Chronicle Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia (my hometown paper!) was proud of its six wins at the Atlantic Journalism Awards this past weekend.
Like any publication that earns praise for its work, the paper celebrated its wins in an … Read more
User-generated content is rife with risk and opportunity.
The opportunity for it to deliver remarkable images is made clear on an almost-daily basis, be it in the midst of a crisis like the Boston Marathon bombings, Hurricane Sandy, or simply … Read more
An amusing New York Times article about the hipster lifestyle in Brooklyn led to an oh-so-hipster correction:
An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the products sold at By Brooklyn. The store does not sell dandelion and burdock soda, lovage soda syrup, and Early Bird granola “gathered in Brooklyn.”
An earlier version also referred incorrectly to the thoroughfare that contains the thrift shop Vice Versa. It is Bedford Avenue, not Bedford Street, or Bedfoprd Avenue, as stated in an earlier correction.
Doug Feaver has no illusions about his new job.
“My primary mission is to respond to readers,” says the Washington Post’s new reader representative.
In other words, he is not an ombudsman.
“This is different — I’m not [charged with] … Read more
There is nothing new about the fact that a major breaking news event unleashed a torrent of rumors, hoaxes, reporting errors and misinformation. That some of them still reverberate, and will continue to, is also par for the course.
It … Read more
The Tampa Bay Times, which is owned by Poynter, has offered up one of the better corrections of the year to date.
Reporter Shelley Rossetter went to Tampa Comic Con and misquoted the event moderator in regard to a Star … Read more
The first session at today’s National Summit on Plagiarism and Fabrication shared some of the findings and recommendations contained in the new, free ebook, “Telling the Truth and Nothing But.” (More on the book and summit in my previous post… Read more
By the end of last summer, I was worn out.
It seemed like every week brought a new, awful incident of plagiarism or fabrication at news organizations large and small. My job was to write about all of them, to … Read more