by Sydney Smith on Dec 24, 2015
Nigerian Tribune Retracts after Publishing Fake Interview, Fires Reporter
The Nigerian Tribune fessed up to publishing a fake interview and fired the reporter who was duped. The fake interviewee posed...
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by Sydney Smith on Dec 23, 2015
Washington Post Deletes Ted Cruz Children are ‘Political Props’ Cartoon
The Washington Post unpublished an editorial cartoon of presidential candidate Ted Cruz and his daughters. The cartoon, by Post editorial cartoonist Ann...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 22, 2015
Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune Fires Editor after NRA Editorial?
The Sentinel-Tribune fired editor Jan Larson McLaughlin, who had worked for the paper for more than three decades, after she let...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 21, 2015
Top 10 Political Reporting Errors of the Year
This year, there were so many glaring or entertaining corrections we had to divvy up our annual corrections lists in categories. Below...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 20, 2015
Public Editor: ‘Systemic Change’ needed at Times after Tashfeen Malik Social Media Error
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan called for "systemic change" after the newspaper wrongly reported that accused San Bernardino...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 19, 2015
Daily Telegraph Corrects Suicide Pact, Travellers Movement Story after IPSO Complaint
The Daily Telegraph wrongly said an inquest into the deaths of a married couple found the pair died as part...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer , Sydney Smith on Dec 18, 2015
Reuters’ Syrian girl ‘Editor’s Choice’ Photo mystery: Why does she have an extra thumb?
Why is there an extra thumb in this Reuters photo of a Syrian girl in a refugee camp? If you...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 17, 2015
NYTimes adds editor’s note to Tashfeen Malik Social Media Story
The New York Times added an editor's note today to its story "U.S. Visa Process Missed San Bernardino Wife's Online Zealotry" on...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 17, 2015
Harper’s Issues its First Retraction, Stephen Glass Faked at least 71% of ‘Prophets and Losses’
Seventeen years later, notorious fabricator Stephen Glass finally has fessed up to what he faked in his story for Harper's Magazine,...