Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Toronto Star: Report that Vladimir Putin, Stephen Harper Would Play Hockey was Wrong

The Toronto Star ran an incorrect story reporting that Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper "is making plans to play on...

Entertainment Weekly got the name of Jay-Z and Beyonce's new baby, Blue Ivy Carter, backwards in a Jan. 8 blogpost...

The Daily Beast questioned if "the New York–based Committee to Protect Journalists failed to stand up for dozens of imprisoned...

The Associated Press issued a Dec. 28 correction to its Dec. 27 story on "the extradition of a Muslim Bosnian...

The Lancashire Evening Post unpublished a comment claiming two firefighters had died, the newspaper noted in a Dec. 26 story...

South African newspaper The Times apologized for "tweeting an inaccurate report that former President Nelson Mandela had been hospitalised," the...

The publisher of Jackie magazine, which called Rihanna a "n---- b----," reportedly claimed the magazine did "nothing wrong" with its...

The Guardian posted a note Dec. 20 noting that it added a correction to 37 stories about News of the...

The New York Times e-mailed millions of online subscribers Dec. 28 to notify them that their home delivery subscription has...