by Sydney Smith on Oct 19, 2011
“Where did Salon’s Corrections Go?”
Regret the Error's Craig Silverman questioned Oct. 11 what happened to Salon's corrections page. The page used to collect all...
Craig Silverman
by Sydney Smith on Sep 19, 2011
Accuracy Tips from Craig Silverman
Columbia Journalism Review's Craig Silverman collected "eight simple rules for doing accurate journalism" in a recent column. Silverman's first tip...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2011
Regret the Error’s Craig Silverman Offers Free Book in exchange for “Accuracy Checklist”
Craig Silverman, who runs the website Regret the Error and wrote the book by the same name, offered journalists a free...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 26, 2010
Tips for journalists : How to stop being duped by websites, social media
Too often lately it seems journalists are caught publishing faulty information or photos found through Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other...
by Molika Ashford on Mar 02, 2010
Journalism Lessons: The ABCs of Not Plagiarizing
In the aftermath of last months plagiarism scandals at the New York Times and Daily Beast, there were lots of...
by Molika Ashford on Dec 19, 2009
Top 10 Media Errors and Corrections from 2009: Craig Silverman’s Highlights
December presents an opportunity for newspapers and other media venues to print an uplifting or solemn retrospective on the year: best...
by Molika Ashford on Nov 26, 2009
Why Journalists Should Learn Math (Or At Least Learn to Fact-Check Math)
Regret The Error’s Craig Silverman has a great post up at the Columbia Journalism Review about why journalists should learn math....
by Molika Ashford on Oct 12, 2009
Daily Corrections? Should media put corrections in their news feeds?
Corrections offer a news outlet the chance to right their wrongs transparently. But because of the way corrections are issued—in...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Dec 24, 2008
Regret The Error, Part 2: Plagiarism & Fabrication in 2008
2008 was the year journalists' sticky fingers as well as imaginations ran wild, as evidenced by Montreal author Craig Silverman's...
by Danielle Elliot on Dec 23, 2008
Regret The Error : 2008’s Top Errors of the Year
Individual journalists weren’t the only ones flubbing reports in 2008. Regret The Error reports “epic organizational failure” was the trend...