Apologies & Retractions in International News Media

NBC Olympics analyst’s Japan comments ‘insulted’ Korean people

During coverage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, NBC Sports analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo...

The Boston Herald suspended sports columnist Ron Borges after he was duped by a hoaxer posing as New England Patriots...

Two UK newspapers claimed actress and UK Celebrity Big Brother contestant Amanda Barrie wears a wig and made a deal...

South Africa's News 24 published a "racist and sexist" blog post about former cricket player Michael Holding. Now, the news...

NPR published several corrections of "major mistakes" as well as a second editor's note on an eleven-month-old story headlined, "The...

A North Korean missile heading to Japan? Japanese public broadcaster NHK terrified millions of people on Jan. 16 when it...

British reality TV star Rebekah Shelton didn't die "unexpectedly," despite a tweet posted on her Twitter account this week. In...

About five years ago, a local newspaper in southwest England, the Dorset Echo, published a photo of a fatal car...

BuzzFeed fired its White House correspondent, Adrian Carrasquillo, this week after he was accused of sending an "inappropriate message." That...