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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
“Death Panels” Report Reaches Depressing Conclusions
The media is ineffective at dispelling false rumors
By Craig Silverman May 27, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Harold Camping was wrong about the rapture happening this past weekend, but it’s unlikely he’ll ever admit to being wrong... More
Star Trek Insurrection
Commenters force news site to admit “Patrick Stewart is a handsome man”
By Craig Silverman Nov 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM
“We're sorry for claiming Captain Kirk was in command of Captain Picard's starship,” reads the headline on a rather remarkable... More
A New Commitment to Transparency at ESPN
Network to codify its standards and practices
By Craig Silverman Jan 27, 2011 at 02:34 PM
In October the National Republican Congressional Committee sent an e-mail to supporters that was signed by former Notre Dame football... 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
Best Practices for Social Media Verification
Some tips and thoughts from the experts
By Craig Silverman Jun 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Whether you view it as long overdue or just in time, I believe we are starting to see the emergence... More
Cable Access
Once again: WikiLeaks did not publicly release 250,000 diplomatic cables
By Craig Silverman Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM
[Update: Craig Silverman elaborates on this column in a new CJR podcast, which you can listen to elsewhere on CJR.org... More
Calling Out a Source that Lied
The Memphis Commercial Appeal holds Schnucks accountable
By Craig Silverman Sep 9, 2011 at 01:19 PM
As far as official denials go, it was clear and emphatic. Lori Willis, communications director of the Schnucks grocery chain,... More
Controversy at “Fox News North”
An “unfortunate episode” at Canada’s Sun News Network
By Craig Silverman Apr 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Imagine for a moment that we’re in the middle of a presidential election. Now imagine that late in the campaign... More
Eight Simple Rules for Doing Accurate Journalism
Some new, some old, some wonderfully clichéd
By Craig Silverman Sep 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM
It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um,... 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 News Ombudsmen Can Make Themselves Essential
Five easy tips for the modern ombud
By Craig Silverman May 20, 2011 at 12:24 PM
What do you tell a room filled with doomed journalists? When invited to deliver a keynote address at this year’s... 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
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account?
Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine
By Craig Silverman Apr 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Yesterday morning NPR’s Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world’s best Twitter accounts to explain what... More
Misinformation Clouds Much Japan Coverage
International media’s output enters the “Journalistic Hall of Shame”
By Craig Silverman Mar 25, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Andrew Woolner’s Yokohama residence was left without power shortly after the recent major earthquake struck Japan. But his laptop and... 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
Misquotes That Refuse to Die
Things that David Plouffe, Captain Kirk, and others didn’t say
By Craig Silverman Jun 24, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Back in 2009, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign manager, David Plouffe, said some rather kind words about Utah governor Jon Huntsman,... 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
Q&A: Blur Author Tom Rosenstiel
On verification and critical thinking in the new, open journalistic era
By Craig Silverman Dec 3, 2010 at 09:59 AM
In their 2001 book, The Elements of Journalism Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach list ten fundamental principles (“elements”) that make... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
