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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offers a playful correction to mistaken book title

Craig Silverman — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:49:10 +0000

An Arkansas Democrat-Gazette writer offers a playful correction to a mistaken book title:

Leave it to a middle school librarian to catch us. Those people notice everything.

We recently praised The Hunger Games trilogy in this column. We liked it… Read more

Correction: Man passed oral exam, not moral exam

Craig Silverman — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:43:22 +0000

The Los Angeles Times mistakenly turned an oral exam into a “moral” one:

State bar: An article in the May 17 LATExtra section about the California Supreme Court considering a request by the state bar to allow an illegal immigrant… Read more

Reporter fired after attributing lack of softball stats to ‘coach’s bullshit and laziness’

Craig Silverman — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:22:23 +0000

Louisiana-based journalist Jeannine LeJeune tweeted this part of an article that she said appeared in Thursday’s edition of the Rayne Independent:

I asked LeJeune if there was a byline on the piece; she said there wasn’t. The paper does… Read more

How Reddit users debunked two hoaxes created by a university class

Craig Silverman — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:41:58 +0000

How Reddit users debunked two hoaxes created by a university class (Source: The Atlantic)

Social journalism research helps explain how information is verified on Twitter

Craig Silverman — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:38:55 +0000

Alfred Hermida‘s research on social journalism can help journalists better understand verification and accuracy on Twitter. Two papers in particular caught my eye: “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification” and “Twittering the News: The… Read more

U.K. paper apologizes for saying female musician slept with DJ

Craig Silverman — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:01:05 +0000

U.K. tabloid the Daily Mirror apologizes for saying that a female musician was one of many women who supposedly slept with a well known BBC DJ:

Following our article of 1 May 2012 in which it was reported that… Read more

HuffPost, CNN, Mediaite fall for fake Twitter account of NC governor

Craig Silverman — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:01:39 +0000

The Huffington Post rather embarrassingly fell for a fake Twitter account and wrote a story yesterday about one of its tweets.

This is but the latest in the long running saga of hoax tweets being taken for real by… Read more

Daily Beast notes the acerbic pen of editor Bill Bradlee. Wait, who?

Craig Silverman — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:49:50 +0000

Call the irony police.

A Daily Beast story about some of the best correspondence from former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee (note the first name) contains this 1978 advice in reply to a young man who asked for… Read more

NYT’s Brian Stelter corrects Bill O’Reilly, Chaz Bono error

Craig Silverman — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:58:23 +0000

Today’s New York Times includes a correction to rectify a mistaken claim contained in a Brian Stelter story. In a look at the depiction of gay characters on TV, he wrote that Bill O’Reilly had complained about Chaz Bono… Read more

Early edition of New York Post wrongly declares Rangers victory

Craig Silverman — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:17:42 +0000

National Post sports columnist Bruce Arthur tweeted this image of a sports page from an early edition of Thursday’s New York Post:

Actually, the Washington Capitals beat the Rangers last night, forcing a seventh game in their playoff… Read more