by Danielle Mastropiero on Dec 24, 2008
Regret The Error, Part 2: Plagiarism & Fabrication in 2008
2008 was the year journalists' sticky fingers as well as imaginations ran wild, as evidenced by Montreal author Craig Silverman's...
Errors
by Danielle Elliot on Dec 23, 2008
Regret The Error : 2008’s Top Errors of the Year
Individual journalists weren’t the only ones flubbing reports in 2008. Regret The Error reports “epic organizational failure” was the trend...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 07, 2008
The Independent’s “Great Depression” Front-Page is a Fake
Campaign Spot's John Trenchard reported the photograph that The Independent used to illustrate America's 2008 "great depression" on its April...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Sep 24, 2008
Duped! The Mark Pulliam Lesson:
Newsbusters' Warner Todd Huston wrote, "Associate editor Jay Boyar's profile of Pulliam described the artist as living a Zelig-like life,...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Sep 23, 2008
“Fake Kiwi family is a fake Aussie family too”
The New Zealand Herald's Edward Gay wrote: The Australian government identified the happy family in the stock photo as Aussies;...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Aug 08, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald STILL using Iran’s fake photo …a month later
Boy-on-a-Bike writes: "I grabbed this snapshot from the SMH webpage at 6.35am this morning - Sunday 3 August. That photo...
by Jeremy J. Miller on Nov 30, 2007
DO THE MEDIA REGRET THE ERRORS? Interview with Craig Silverman
CheckYourFacts.org interviews Craig Silverman, author of the new book, "Regret The Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil...
by Adam Klasfeld on Nov 29, 2007
Anatomy of a Correction / Correction of Anatomy: Pitbull Didn’t Chew Off Leg
UPDATED 12/3/07 If StinkyJournalism staffers are the self-knighted superheroes of fact-checking, then Google Alerts are our trusty sidekicks. When founder...
by Adam Klasfeld on Oct 30, 2007
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...