Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 14, 2012
4:10 pm
BBC
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Neda Agha-Soltan's 2009 death during protests in Iran, an Iranian English-literature professor named Zahra "Neda" Soltani had the surreal experience of seeing her picture reproduced in news reports and in protests around the world, and her name used interchangeably with Agha-Soltan's. The photo came from her Facebook page, Soltani writes in a first-person account, and writing to news organizations that contacted her didn't stop the wrong information from spreading.
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- This BBC photo shows Neda Soltani on the left; Neda Agha-Soltan, on the right, died during protests in 2009.
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Craig Silverman
Feb. 23, 2012
8:07 am
Two weeks ago I decided I’d seen enough same name/wrong photo mistakes in the press to publish a post offering five tips that would help publications avoid this error.
I was moved to write it after seeing a spate corrections … Read more
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Jan. 13, 2012
11:51 am
Attorney Scott Tenley was misidentified as Emanuel Goffer in a photo caption accompanying the continuation of an article on the government’s broad insider-trading investigation in Wednesday’s Money & Investing section. The person who was supposed to be pictured, Mr. Goffer, is a figure who was convicted in the case. Mr. Tenley is a lawyer for another figure in the case and his photo appeared in error.
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A correction in the Wall Street Journal
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Jan. 4, 2012
11:08 am
An archive photo showed a famous woman — aproned, holding a saucepan and contemplating several wine glasses — in a galley kitchen (Ironing lady, 30 December, page 10). Our caption read: “Margaret Thatcher, as PM, attends to domestic concerns at 10 Downing Street.” In fact, notes a reader, “the photo shows almost the opposite: it’s a publicity still from a BBC TV series called ‘Take Nobody’s Word For It. ‘ ” The reader, who worked on this 1987 series, goes on: “Mrs Thatcher is appearing as a ‘guest scientist’ doing kitchen chemistry experiments; she’s explaining that red cabbage can be used as an indicator for acid and alkali, and she’s about to pour the red cabbage water from the saucepan . . . into the wine glasses with acid, alkali and neutral liquids in them, to show the colour changes.”
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A correction in The Guardian
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Craig Silverman
Dec. 20, 2011
9:05 am
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