Apologies & Retractions in International News Media

Cosmo Apologizes for Fake Celeb Interview with Scarlett Johansson

As if misquoting isn’t bad enough, U.K. Cosmopolitan (owned by the Hearst Corporation) decided to fabricate an entire interview with...

2008 was the year journalists' sticky fingers as well as imaginations ran wild, as evidenced by Montreal author Craig Silverman's...

Individual journalists weren’t the only ones flubbing reports in 2008. Regret The Error reports “epic organizational failure” was the trend...

You may remember our last story on the US military's use of Photoshop. They had given AP Photos altered an...

The KRMG Local News AP headline blares--“Woman mauled by large pitbull'-- in Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 30, 2008. A photo of...

In August, The New York Times published an unusual correction. Ryan Tate at Gawker reported the newspaper "had erroneously...

The New York Times' Andrew Revkin writes, "We've pulled the photograph of a cliff of coal that was provided by...

Haaretz Service reports that newspapers are retracting a fake photo of missiles. Haaretz reported: "'It's a doctored image,' said Gerard...

Updated 02/25/08 4:17pm A week before the world’s highest and most controversial railroad officially opened in July 2006, connecting China...