Apologies & Retractions in International News Media

NZ Press Council: Column on Maori was ‘Mean, Malicious & Infantile’

The National Business Review, a weekly New Zealand newspaper, published a column that was "mean, malicious and infantile," the New...

UK news site the Brighton and Hove News published a prank story for April Fool's Day, claiming that a local...

The BBC has admitted this month that a portion of a 2011 documentary on the Korowai people in Papua New...

NPR retracted a story that "did not meet our standards" because "reporting mistakes substantially undercut the story." The April 3...

The Namibian admitted"failing" its readers by publishing a fake story. But then, the kicker was that the newspaper--the widest circulating...

In a column, weekly newspaper the River Valley Times's Marcia Courson suggested "you black men might be better off at...

A Daily Mail Australia online story called contestants on the show Bachelor "vapid c**ts." Now, the reporter on that story has been fired,...

Bad taste? Nigerian news site PM News published a news story on a woman who accused her professor as "demanding...

South Africa's Sunday World was issued the journalism equivalent of a yellow card. That is, the newspaper must apologize to the...