Craig Silverman tracks accuracy, errors & the craft of verification.
Rachel Larris of Name It Change It posted a story about changes made to a profile of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that originally aired on May 16 during NPR’s Morning Edition.
The original story, among other things, referred to the New … Read more
The Scotsman made a timely retraction in the print edition of Wednesday’s paper. The story begins with news Wednesday that former Dundee United captain Jon Daly will become the first Irish Catholic to play for the Rangers football club.
Readers of Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune received a lesson in mass transit history with this correction:
A story Friday in the main news section stated incorrectly that in 1969 the CTA Dan Ryan Line became the first transit rail route in the U.S. built on a highway median. The “first” did occur in Chicago, but 11 years earlier when the CTA introduced service on what today is the Blue Line along the median of the Congress Expressway, now known as the Eisenhower Expressway. The Tribune regrets the error.
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
The New York Times’ City Room blog has issued what Tablet Magazine is referring to as “perhaps the most Jewish ‘Times’ correction ever.” The post, published yesterday and written by Andy Newman, focused on the arrival of three female mulefoot hogs at the … 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 Wars … Read more