Craig Silverman
Jan. 14, 2013
11:21 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 8, 2013
11:26 am
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Craig Silverman
Dec. 12, 2012
8:42 am
If my annual tally of plagiarism and fabrication incidents is the depressing part of “Regret the Error”‘s year-end coverage, then this annual collection of the best of the worst in errors and corrections is the highlight.
That’s not to say … Read more
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Julie Moos
Nov. 29, 2012
5:39 pm
The Blaze | Al Jazeera
United Nations Information Officer Nancy Groves accidentally substituted the number 1 for the number 2 in a tweet about the Palestinian bid for a homeland in the Middle East:
- Ban Ki-moon is the Secretary-General of the UN.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the urgency of a
two-state solution, of course -- one for Palestinians and the other being Israel.
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Julie Moos
Oct. 24, 2012
5:05 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 11, 2012
10:23 am
A Guardian editor's byline shouldn't have appeared above a story based on a Reuters article, the paper acknowledged Thursday. But how much does a news organization have to add to wire copy before it can take credit for a story?
The correction is explained in a footnote on an Oct. 9 story about
Cisco Systems, Inc., cutting ties with ZTE Corporation. Its byline "did not reflect that the article was substantially based on a Reuters story," the note reads. "A reference in the byline to agency copy, added by the staff journalist, was removed during the editing process."
Now the byline reads "Staff and agencies." ("Agencies" is how British journalists refer to what U.S. journalists call "wire services.") Until the note appeared today, it said the piece was by Charles Arthur, the Guardian's technology editor. But the Guardian's piece was mostly the words of Reuters reporter Steve Stecklow, whose Oct. 8 story about
Cisco Systems Inc. cutting ties with ZTE Corporation was billed by that news agency as an "exclusive."
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Kelly McBride
Sep. 26, 2012
9:45 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Aug. 23, 2012
11:59 am
Poynter.org | ABC News | Los Angeles Times
ABC News still hasn’t confirmed whether Tony Scott had inoperable brain cancer, despite reporting that he did and then acknowledging
doubts about the accuracy of its initial single-sourced report.
Monday night,
ABC said its original report appeared doubtful after learning that Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter had told ABC News station KABC that Scott’s family didn’t know he had brain cancer. Since then, ABC News has been waiting to hear back from Scott's family or a family spokesperson to determine whether it needs to issue a retraction.
"ABC has continued to reach out to the family over the past few days to directly confirm the coroner's statement and have not received a response to-date," ABC News spokesperson David Ford said by phone. "ABC has published the facts as they are known today and when additional facts are known we will update our reporting accordingly. As previously stated, if incorrect information was reported by ABC News we will issue a full retraction and apology."
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Aug. 21, 2012
3:07 pm
ABC is waiting to hear back from Tony Scott’s family or a family representative before determining whether its initial report about Scott was incorrect, a network spokesperson told Poynter.
Relying on a single source, ABC News reported Monday that Scott -- who committed suicide Sunday -- had inoperable brain cancer. That piece
now redirects to a story that says Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter has since told ABC News station KABC that Scott’s family was unaware of the cancer. Many news sites
picked up on ABC’s original story and are now reporting that it was incorrect.
If ABC learns from Scott's family that he didn't have inoperable brain cancer, the network will issue a retraction and conduct an internal review, the spokesperson said, noting that it's possible Scott didn't tell his family he had cancer.
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Andrew Beaujon
July 27, 2012
9:30 am
The Patriot-News |
The Sentinel |
Penn State Law |
Above the Law
On Thursday The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., ran a front-page correction:
The Patriot-News incorrectly reported that the Penn State Dickinson School of Law is taking measures that would close the campus in Carlisle. School officials say they intend to keep the Carlisle campus operating. Also, the story incorrectly reported that the steps could cause the Carlisle campus to lose its accreditation. The law school has campuses in Carlisle and State College, and the American Bar Association accreditation reflects the entire law school.
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- Thursday's Patriot-News front page, courtesy the Newseum. Click to see larger image.
The note also perches
atop the original story online. Ron Southwick, city editor at The Patriot-News,
told The Sentinel's Stacy Brown:
“We feel the bulk of the story is accurate. There is a memo that describes a couple of options which people have concerns about,” Southwick said. “There were a couple of mistakes that we made. For example, the memo we obtained does not say that they would do away with the Carlisle campus. There was also mention in the story about the school losing its accreditation, which is a minor mistake.”
Penn State's Carlisle campus is about 90 miles down the General Potter Highway from State College. Elizabeth Gibson's story alludes to some tension in that arrangement:
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