Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Huff Post Geography Fail, Says Hawaii an ‘Independent Country’

Someone over at Huffington Post needs a brush-up lesson on geography. In an article on Bill Murray and Emma Stone's...

Whoops! People.com used the wrong photo with a story on the Bravo show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The...

Mariah Serrano, a Long Island resident, called out the New York Post for sensationalizing and lying about the reason for her...

CBS News chairman Jeff Fager apologized for 60 Minutes' now-retracted report about Benghazi, Variety reported. As iMediaEthics wrote Friday, CBS...

Gawker reported that The Hollywood Reporter got the name of Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel wrong by calling her Andrea Merkel,...

Where, oh where, is the Garden State Plaza Mall? The shopping mall was on lockdown Nov. 4 after reports of...

In response to breaking news errors in reporting on last week's shooting at Los Angeles airport, Politico's Dylan Byers asked...

Slate added a long correction on an article about BuzzFeed "going multilingual." The Slate article, by Evgeny Morozov, is titled:...

Several news outlets made errors -- and quickly posted corrections in reporting on the shooting at Los Angeles airport Nov....