Apologies & Retractions in International News Media

Football Coach Interview Fail at Baton Rouge Advocate

Baton Rouge, Louisiana newspaper The Advocate recently apologized for wrongly attributing quotes to a local high school football coach. But...

The New York Times mis-identified the University of Pennsylvania as the school currently in the news for accusations of rape...

The Sunday World apologized and paid "an undisclosed sum" to former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly after "wrongly" accusing him of...

The UK Sun paid out money for fake claims last week, according to a separate Guardian report. The newspaper had wrongly...

The Associated Press reported that it had corrected its Nov. 18 story that reported quotes attributed to Christopher Walken. Walken's comments...

Yahoo News criticized ESPN's Lee Corso for using the f-word during an on-air Game Day segment. Corso later apologized, according...

As iMediaEthics has written, two Connecticut newspapers have been in court for two years over aggregation and plagiarism charges. The Journal...

The UK Daily Star newspaper and Heat magazine apologized and paid damages to Garry Tweedy after wrongly claiming he "admitted...

The Guardian apologized to News International for its front-page report claiming the company had a Sun journalist "doorstep a barrister...