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. Craig writes a weekly column for the Toronto Star and has been a columnist for 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.
John McIntyre, longtime copy editor and current night content production manager for the Baltimore Sun, dove into the paper’s archives for a story that shares some of the Sun’s notable mishaps and corrections.
It is, of course, delightful.
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The editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education says she fired contributor Naomi Schaefer Riley for her blog post about Black Studies scholarship due to the writer’s failure to back up her assertions with “even the most cursory research.”… Read more
After publishing a false report about a dentist who pulled all of her ex-boyfriend’s teeth in revenge, a reporter for the Daily Mail’s website now says he’s unable to explain exactly where the story came from.
“I’ve drawn a bit… Read more
At first I guessed it was a spell-check error that transformed fantastically-named “Sherlock” actor Benedict Cumberbatch into “Bandersnatch Cummerbund” in a Washington Post story, but I was wrong.
(Via @Alex_Ogle and @sstummeafp)
The editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education has apologized and severed the publication’s relationship with the writer of a blog post about Black Studies that “did not meet The Chronicle’s basic editorial standards for reporting and fairness in opinion… Read more
The Gazette, an English-language daily in Montreal, issued an apology online and in print after one of its reporters attracted criticism for her tweets while covering a student demonstration.
Anne Sutherland, a longtime reporter for The Gazette, was assigned to… Read more
Three major U.K. publishers last week apologized and paid damages to an Algerian man they accused of being a “gangster” and offering a safe house to terrorists, among other false claims. The publishers removed the offending pieces from their websites… Read more
In referring to the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Los Angeles Times commits an Osama/Obama error:
Bin Laden: A May 3 column by Doyle McManus referred to “the anniversary of Obama’s death.” That phrase should have read “the anniversary of [Osama] Bin Laden’s death.”
A typo in The Observer (U.K.) suggested people were receiving insect, rather than ear, implants:
A brief guide to neuroscience (“The brain. . . it makes you think. Doesn’t it?”, Discover, New Review, last week, page 19) referred to “cochineal implants” in a sub-heading. That should, of course, have been cochlear implants.