Plagiarism, fabrication and hoaxes marked this year in ‘Regret the Error’
We've published the year’s most notable errors and corrections and a month-by-month accounting of plagiarism…
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.
We've published the year’s most notable errors and corrections and a month-by-month accounting of plagiarism…
2012 was the worst year for fabrication and plagiarism since I began collecting data in…
It started with confusion at the scene of the crime. A source told CNN the…
A committee formed to investigate better ways of preventing and handling incidents of plagiarism and…
If my annual tally of plagiarism and fabrication incidents is the depressing part of "Regret…
Just when I thought we were done with journalism scandals for 2012, another serial fabricator…
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Joe Milliken has spent months trying to get his career back on track, but he…
BuzzFeed's John Herrman says events like Hurricane Sandy show that "Twitter Is A Truth Machine":…
There's a simple truth in journalism: big weather brings an onslaught of fake images. This…
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