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KTVU Fires 3 Producers for Asiana Flight 214 Fake Pilot Names Error

Bay Area Fox-affiliate KTVU fired three producers who were involved in its July 12 viral mistake in reporting racist and...

Media outlets have been tricked by hoax names this month: San Francisco's KTVU wrongly reported on the fake names of...

BBC host Andrew Castle agreed to pay and publicly apologize for saying earlier this month that a tennis athlete, David...

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a columnist for the New York Times and co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, apologized for his "hyperbole"...

Last year, Fox News aired live footage of a man named JoDon Romero killing himself with a gun after a car...

An MSNBC graphic wrongly said George Wallace -- who was a segregationist governor of Alabama during portions of the 1960s...

The UK Sun newspaper apologized to aliens for a story saying "Flying saucers [were seen] over British Scientology HQ." Yep,...

For the first time in 18 years, the Toronto Star had to run a front-page apology after wrongly saying that...

Cleveland ABC-affiliate WEWS (NewsNet 5) unpublished an article and apologized for its "poor judgment call" in reporting on the criminal...