Top Corrections and Clarifications in the News

‘Wire’ creator David Simon slams HuffPost for publishing libel

The Huffington Post corrected a blogpost that wrongly stated The Wire creator David Simon was fired from the Baltimore Sun....

Gore creates clicks; never mind if it's not fact checked. Hundreds of children were not discovered buried in a mass...

Brazilian journalist Mario Sergio Conti was duped by a look-a-like soccer coach into publishing fake quotes. Conti published an interview...

Whoops! The UK Daily Telegraph wrongly reported that actor Daniel Day-Lewis is receiving an Order of the British Empire. In...

Deadline Hollywood retracted a story after it published a hoax claiming the ABC show Scandal had re-cast the role of...

The New York Times wrongly reported that Goldman Sachs had fired its CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Mediaite reported recently. The error...

The UK Daily Mail has agreed to publish a correction and apology to Harry Potter author JK Rowling following her...

The University of Colorado-Boulder is holding a media ethics symposium next week. The March 14-15 event will include talks by...

The New York Times "referred imprecisely to [the] possible fate" of Viktor F. Yanukovych in a Feb. 25 article about...