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The Year in Errata
The good and bad of the year in media errors and corrections
By Craig Silverman Dec 19, 2008 at 11:33 AM
About a month ago, I began the laborious and depressing task of scouring the archives of Regret the Error to... More
Death by Obiticide
When sloppy journalism kills
By Craig Silverman Dec 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM
I have some bad news to pass along this week: two people were killed as a result of sloppy journalism.... More
Scrubbing Away Their Sins
You can’t disappear your errors online
By Craig Silverman Dec 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM
We used to be able to throw out the news; to disappear it. The morning paper would find its way... More
Everything Old Is New Again
The week in corrections
By Craig Silverman Nov 21, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Just over two months ago, shares of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, fell by as much as 76... More
The Art of the Fake Correction
Inside the hoax New York Times’s corrections section
By Craig Silverman Nov 14, 2008 at 10:55 AM
The groups responsible for this week’s fake edition of The New York Times took great care to produce a newspaper... More
Apologies Not Acceptable
Does The Washington Post apologize?
By Craig Silverman Nov 7, 2008 at 12:47 PM
The Washington Post’s correction policy has some elegant turns of phrase, including “Preventing and correcting mistakes are two sides of... More
Weapons of Mass Reduction
Corrections as weapons
By Craig Silverman Oct 31, 2008 at 12:18 PM
In its most basic and useful form, a correction fixes erroneous reporting and provides a public admission for an error.... More
A Treasury of Page Six Corrections
The week in newspaper corrections
By Craig Silverman Oct 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Gossip is a cutthroat business. It’s also an error-prone one. Mistakes are inevitable when you trade in rumors and rely... More
Ils Regretteront L’Erreur
Front page apologies flower in Europe
By Craig Silverman Oct 17, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Le Monde, a highly respected French newspaper, committed an error so egregious on Wednesday that its editors believed the only... More
The Case of the Comical Cleric
Apologies for deeds done while off the clock
By Craig Silverman Oct 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Reverend Peter Mullen holds the rather unique position of chaplain to the London Stock Exchange. As if that’s not keeping... More
The Case Of The Naughty Wristband
The week in corrections
By Craig Silverman Oct 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Starting this week, Craig Silverman, the editor of media errors and corrections Web site RegretTheError.com, will provide a Friday roundup... More
The Truth about Public Untruths
Are journalists and others equipped to beat back the lies?
By Craig Silverman Dec 2, 2011 at 01:13 PM
What’s to be done with lying liars and the lies they tell journalists and the public? This is a topic... More
Know Your Journalists
New transparency website compiles personal data on reporters
By Craig Silverman Nov 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM
In 2006 Adrian Holovaty, then a programmer and journalist of some reputation, wrote a blog post entitled, “A fundamental way... More
Some Thoughts on the Romenesko Affair
Examining the critical consensus
By Craig Silverman Nov 11, 2011 at 01:49 PM
I have no other option than to start this column about Jim Romenesko with a litany of disclosures. Deep breath,... More
Misinformation Propagation
Scientists work to combat false memes
By Craig Silverman Nov 4, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Growing up in Rome, Filippo Menczer used to watch the local con artists offer gullible tourists a chance to buy... More
The Story of the Gaddafi Story
How news of the Libyan leader’s demise spread on Twitter
By Craig Silverman Oct 20, 2011 at 02:14 PM
Earlier this morning news began to spread that something major was happening in Libya. At first it seemed that a... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
