Top Corrections and Clarifications in the News

MODERN TIMES: NYTimes’ Greg Brock on new correction database

The Times’ new office is not the only thing being modernized. Earlier this month, CheckYourFacts broke the story about the...

The New York Post’s statistics should be checked for steroid use. In an October 17th article on an investigation into...

Check Your Facts has learned that the New York Times may finally be making good on one of the recommendations...

Try getting the mainstream media to own up to their mistakes. When I recently tried getting a correction on a...

Charles Madigan, longtime writer and editor for The Chicago Tribune claimed recently to have invented a new word: info-pimp. “I...

Phil Hirschkorn, in his two 2004 CNN.com articles, propagates an incorrect count of victims onboard the four planes hijacked on...

While at times referring to its subject as a "so-called frog," BBC News reported an Iranian woman gave birth to...

Associated Press editors were forced to retract an earlier report that a meteorite might have hit near Olympia, Wash., this...

The Wall Street Journal's Glossary of Terms defines a rowback as, “A story that attempts to correct a previous story...