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
An obituary on Saturday about the guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a founder of the band Slayer, misspelled the name of one of the bands with which Slayer has toured. It is Megadeth, not Megadeath.Times obituaries editor Bill McDonald says in an email that he wasn't aware of any outcry from metalheads over the goof -- Yardley realized his mistake and alerted the desk, he writes. Correction: This post originally said the Facebook page for the book "Louder Than Hell" took partial credit for getting the typo corrected; "We took credit for setting the record straight re: the fact that Hanneman is NOT a Nazi sympathizer," co-author Katherine Turman tells Poynter in an email.
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.
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The Editor would also like to add that comments such as “In riding his hobby very hard, he has fallen down through a gully-hole and has never since been able to get out again” and “Has he any facts to show in proof? No!”, published in an Editorial on Dr Snow's theories in 1855, were perhaps somewhat overly negative in tone.Its obituary should have mentioned that Snow contributed greatly to epidemiology, The Lancet notes. Simon Rogers argued last month that Snow's map of cholera cases was one of the first examples of data journalism.
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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An earlier version of this post stated incorrectly that a service hedgehog would be allowed in a store that sells food in New York. Dogs are the only species of service animal allowed in food establishments, according to the city health department. (Hedgehogs are sometimes used as therapy animals.)(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
This review misspelled basically everyone’s name. It’s Hannah Horvath, not Hannah Hovrath; Marnie is played by Allison Williams, not Alison Williams; and Ray is played by Alex Karpovsky, not Zosia Mamet.News Editor Chad Lorenz, who oversees the site's corrections, said via email that the person who edited the story "chose to post that piece himself without filing it to the copy desk, so that probably led to more errors than usual." (more...)