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“Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”
The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon
By Craig Silverman May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Of all the mistaken headlines, verbal gaffes, and erroneous tweets that resulted from the Sunday announcement that Osama Bin Laden... More
The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error
Failing to attribute its deleted-messages assertion left it open to attack
By Ryan Chittum Dec 23, 2011 at 01:14 PM
When The Guardian dropped its Milly Dowler bombshell back in July, I called the News Corporation hacking it reported "abhorrent... More
A Wall Street Journal Error Undermines a Story’s Premise
But even after a correction, its readers almost surely don’t know that
By Ryan Chittum Aug 17, 2011 at 03:38 PM
Here's a good example of how corrections can fail to fix misimpressions created by the original error. In this case,... More
A Columnist Recants, but the WSJ Edit Page Won’t Hear it
The paper runs a flawed column and declines to publish the retraction
By Ryan Chittum Nov 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM
A year and a half ago, George Mason University economics professor Daniel B. Klein wrote a column about his finding... More
A game of telephone fools the Times
And the newspaper-of-record short-arms the correction
By Ryan Chittum May 18, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The New York Times posts a nasty correction on its Sunday op-ed by William Deresiewicz, who asserted that a study... More
A Sports Myth Grows in Brooklyn
New basketball arena won’t occupy the site the Dodgers sought
By Norman Oder Mar 18, 2011 at 01:37 PM
Journalists who write about the new basketball arena rising in Brooklyn, scheduled to house the basketball Nets in 2012, frequently... More
A Victim’s Tale
What it’s like to be on the receiving end of a press error
By Craig Silverman Aug 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Last week was a terrible one for Jon Harris, a librarian at the North Canton Public Library in Ohio. On... More
And on the Fender Bass, President Abraham Lincoln!
A humorous correction earns AAA World some praise
By Craig Silverman Jul 1, 2011 at 01:19 PM
It wasn’t too long after the July/August issue of the mid-Atlantic edition of AAA World magazine reached subscribers that Mike... More
Apparently, Global News Orgs Don’t Commit Online Errors
Is that why so many of them lack coherent corrections policies?
By Justin D. Martin Jul 27, 2011 at 04:41 PM
Far too many modern news organizations do not have public corrections policies or prominent corrections pages, something that has been... More
Audit Notes: Blame the Lenders, Government Scandals, Corrections
By Ryan Chittum Apr 24, 2012 at 01:38 AM
Abigail Caplovitz Field at Firedoglake writes a good post explaining why the blame-the-borrowers meme is ultimately misguided—and dangerous: Houses are... More
Audit Notes: Reuters in court, 97-month car loans, the missing 000s
A flurry of legal activity for the wire service
By Ryan Chittum Apr 9, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters has been in the legal news a bit lately, and not in a good way. First, the Journal reported... More
Audit Notes: Weil embarrasses DOJ, Business Insider, revolving door
By Ryan Chittum Mar 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil makes an amazing catch on the latest Ernst & Young wrist slap from the Justice Department, this... More
Errors in Anytown, U.S.A.
Academic brings an anonymous newsroom’s corrections practices to light
By Craig Silverman Sep 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Last spring, Kirstie Hettinga spent several months working two days a week as an unpaid intern at what she will... More
From Breaking News to Baseless Speculation
Why journalists jumped to conclusions about the Norway attacks
By Craig Silverman Jul 29, 2011 at 11:35 AM
Why do journalists and news organizations exhibit such a lack of restraint when it comes to breaking news like last... More
How Do Journos Find Time to Fight Corrections?
Instead of arguing over factual errors, fix them and move on
By Justin D. Martin Nov 16, 2011 at 02:34 PM
On November 8, I received a call in my office from a frustrated online editor at The Bangor Daily News,... More
Introducing the Grantland Corrections Desk
Deadspin picks up Bill Simmons’s slack
By Craig Silverman Jul 8, 2011 at 12:45 PM
“Without looking it up, I can tell you the night the Toronto Blue Jays won their first World Series —... 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
Must-reads of the week
Geezer parents, poisoned beef, Harvard ballers, Occupy grief
By The Editors Dec 14, 2012 at 03:28 PM
Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More
Q & A: Stephen Abell
Talking with the director of the U.K.’s Press Complaints Commission
By Craig Silverman Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM
In late December, British tabloid The Sun published a correction to a sensational story it had writ large on the... More
RTE’s Error of the Year
And other highlights from the year in corrections, retractions, and apologia
By Craig Silverman Dec 10, 2010 at 09:50 AM
It’s been a very stressful couple of weeks. Every year at this time, I publish the Year in Media Errors... 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?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
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.
