AP story about Petraeus scandal mistakenly refers to “Florida socialist” Jill Kelley
An early version of an Associated Press story about the David Petraeus resignation and ensuing…
November 16, 2012
Typos
The Globe and Mail’s front page typo makes bad week worse
It's been rough week for Canada's Globe And Mail. A plagiarism scandal engulfed one of…
September 27, 2012
How a typo helped reveal Harvard University cheaters
The Harvard Crimson | The Miami Herald Harvard Assistant Professor Matthew B. Platt made a…
September 18, 2012
Paper confuses name of local restaurant with form of cancer
Continuing with today's theme of embarrassing media mistakes about restaurants, I offer you this seemingly…
June 18, 2012
Only in ‘Amercia’: Romney app needs copy editing
Charles Apple | Washington Post Perhaps some of the copy editors losing their newspaper jobs…
May 30, 2012
Correction: Man passed oral exam, not moral exam
The Los Angeles Times mistakenly turned an oral exam into a "moral" one: State bar:…
May 18, 2012
Daily Beast notes the acerbic pen of editor Bill Bradlee. Wait, who?
Call the irony police. A Daily Beast story about some of the best correspondence from…
May 15, 2012
Washington Post writer turns Benedict Cumberbatch into ‘Bandersnatch Cummerbund’
At first I guessed it was a spell-check error that transformed fantastically-named "Sherlock" actor Benedict…
May 8, 2012
Observer (U.K.) typo suggests people implanting insects in ears
A typo in The Observer (U.K.) suggested people were receiving insect, rather than ear, implants:…
May 7, 2012
Ottawa Citizen front page reports that Titanic sank in 2012
Note the date in the photo caption of this Ottawa Citizen front page image from…
April 9, 2012
ABC station tweets unfortunate typos about suicide
A breaking news tweet from WJLA in Washington, D.C., fell victim to a dirty typo:…
March 14, 2012
Toronto Sun misspells ‘Monday’ on front page
Somebody at the Toronto Sun is having a very bad start to the week, after…
February 13, 2012
Observer correction: Interned, not interred
U.K. paper corrects an amusing typo: Our profile of author John Lanchester last week ("A…
February 7, 2012
The Australian mistakenly reports journalist killings in Turkey
"Greg Sheridan's article in The Weekend Australian ('World's a stage for Turkey', page 22) said…
January 25, 2012
Guardian typo deems Italy ‘laughing stocking of foreign newspapers’
"In an analysis piece - A shipwreck at this time in the life of Italy…
January 24, 2012
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