The best and worst media errors and corrections in 2013
Error of the Year: '60 Minutes' Benghazi report As is often the case with Error…
Craig Silverman (craig@craigsilverman.ca) is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Regret the Error, a blog that reports on media errors and corrections, and trends regarding accuracy and verification. The blog moved to The Poynter Institute in December 2011, and he joined as Adjunct Faculty. He also serves as Director for Content for Spundge, a content curation and creation platform used by newsrooms and other organizations. Craig has been a columnist for the Toronto Star, Columbia Journalism Review, The Globe And Mail and BusinessJournalism.org. He’s the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift, and was part of the team that launched OpenFile.ca, a Canadian online news start-up. His journalism and books have been recognized by the Mirror Awards, National Press Club, Canadian National Magazine Awards, and the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
Error of the Year: '60 Minutes' Benghazi report As is often the case with Error…
It's almost, er, time for Time to unveil its Person of the Year. One of…
The Associated Press quoted a fake Vin Diesel Instagram account in an obit for actor…
What do you do when you get it completely wrong? Peter C. Mastrosimone, editor-in-chief of the…
In 1863, the Harrisburg, Pa. paper then known as the Patriot & Union published an editorial…
During a chat on The Guardian website, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was asked about the recent…
A Guardian correction notes the paper mistakenly demoted Chris Christie, and added almost 200 pounds…
A lying source, a failure to properly vet him, and critical information that turned out…
This Daily Mail correction is attracting quite a bit of attention due to the original,…
Actress, ThighMaster pitchwoman and author Suzanne Somers published a post on a Wall Street Journal blog…
Washington Post schools reporter Emma Brown picked out a correction in today's paper that she…
Canada's Hamilton Spectator today published an amusing correction to a letter to the editor that…
Update: A third AP employee was fired for involvement in an erroneous story about Virginia…
Having the truth on your side is a necessary thing when trying to debunk misinformation.…
This Associated Press didn't quite identify these protesters correctly: In an Oct. 10 story about…
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