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.
Stop a journalist on the street and ask her to list the fundamentals of the job and you’re almost certain to hear mention of accuracy.
In “The Elements of Journalism,” Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel wrote that journalism’s “essence … Read more
In recent years, though certainly not recently, many conference attendees have heard Jonah Lehrer speak about how our brains and our personal interactions affect our behaviours in interesting and surprising ways.
During his talk at a Knight Foundation event Tuesday, it was much … Read more
The Associated Press issued a correction late last week to address reporting that cited Manti Te’o's fake girlfriend as real. As reported in Mike Allen’s Playbook at Politico, here’s the correction:
In a Sept. 15, 2012, story about Notre Dame’s
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A correction to a recent David Carr piece about Trey Parker and Matt Stone is a good reminder of the joys of a well-written correction: “While Kenny met his fate in a variety of ways over the years, he was … Read more
In an email to staff this morning, The Washington Post clarified its practices and standards for online corrections. The email was signed by three top editors, including Executive Editor Marty Baron, and was a succinct expression of the paper’s method … Read more
The New York Times will soon launch an online corrections form to make it easier for readers to report an error.
Greg Brock, the Times editor who oversees corrections, shared the information with Journalism.co.uk when he was interviewed for … Read more
Canada’s Ottawa Citizen today published an above the fold front page apology to a police officer it falsely accused of violating a citizen’s rights.
Here’s the apology, which is also online:
The paper ran Friday’s apology in the same … Read more
Richard Gingras says that at this moment in journalism, “transformation” is a four letter word.
Gingras, the head of news and social products for Google, spoke to a group of journalism professors at last week’s Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute … Read more
The Toronto Star published an online apology late today after it discovered one of its reporters plagiarized parts of a story from The Globe and Mail, a national paper in Canada.
“A Jan. 4 Business article about the Entertainment … Read more
We’ve published the year’s most notable errors and corrections and a month-by-month accounting of plagiarism and fabrication. Now it’s time to highlight the three accuracy-related trends from this year.
This year saw … Read more