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Newsmangled: Paterno’s death declared, without the facts - thestar.com

UK’s Radio Times apologizes for photo showing Royal Marine’s little soldier | Poynter.

Was this Obama’s third or fourth State of the Union address? | Poynter.

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Newsmangled: Paterno’s death declared, without the facts - thestar.com

UK’s Radio Times apologizes for photo showing Royal Marine’s little soldier | Poynter.

Was this Obama’s third or fourth State of the Union address? | Poynter.

Spelling a surname incorrectly ‘chips away at credibility’ - thestar.com

My Little Pony error in N.Y. Times sets online world abuzz - thestar.com

AP grows fact checking beyond politics to breaking news, beat reporting | Poynter.

A year later, false reports of Rep. Giffords death still reverberate for the press | Poynter.

The best New York Times pop culture corrections of 2011 (and beyond) | Poynter.

Charlotte Observer typo attributes painful, vulgar injury to NBA player | Poynter.

WaPost digital ME: ‘I actually wish it were true that we have too much innovation’ | Poynter.

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Newsmangled: Report of student’s death sparks ban - thestar.com

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Reuters issues multiple corrections for much-criticized Rubio story

Reuters published a story on Thursday that looked at the “unlikely” vice presidential prospects of Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

The headline said “Florida’s Rubio a star, but an unlikely VP pick” for the GOP nominee’s running mate. The… Read more

Paper regrets wishing deceased Etta James happy birthday

Tacoma, Wash., paper regrets wishing the deceased Etta James a happy birthday:

“An item on Page A2 in Wednesday’s paper incorrectly stated that it was singer Etta James’ 74th birthday. James died last week.”

How CNN’s iReport verifies its citizen content

The protests that erupted in Nigeria earlier this month over skyrocketing fuel prices initially received only a small amount of coverage from North American media, including CNN.

But CNN’s iReport team soon began seeing a steady stream of photos,… Read more

Boston Globe says story about CIA & Charles Taylor overstepped evidence

Boston Globe says story about CIA & Charles Taylor overstepped evidence

“Editor’s note: A front-page story on Jan. 17 drew unsupported conclusions and significantly overstepped available evidence when it described former Liberia president Charles Taylor as having worked with US… Read more

3 verification lessons from the Joe Paterno death debacle

I realize we are approaching the point of over-analysis of the false reports of Joe Paterno’s death, and I’m perhaps the worst offender. Deadspin’s Tommy Craggs recently told The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple, “This is the sort of thing Poynter… Read more

Australia’s Herald Sun issues apology to former government official

“On 22 September 2011, the Herald Sun published an article on Page 4 under the headline ‘Minister let terror leader stay’.

“That article was subsequently published on the Herald Sun website, and on the websites of other News Limited mastheads,… Read more

UK’s Radio Times apologizes for photo showing Royal Marine’s little soldier

Here’s a reminder to make sure you inspect handout photos for any, um, irregularities.

UK listings publication Radio Times issued an apology after it accidentally published a photo of a group of Royal Marines that showed one man’s penis.… Read more

The Australian mistakenly reports journalist killings in Turkey

“Greg Sheridan’s article in The Weekend Australian (‘World’s a stage for Turkey’, page 22) said Turkey’s democratic credentials had been called into question by the ‘recent killings of journalists’. This should have read, ‘recent jailings of journalists’. The error was… Read more

Independent corrects report that The Sun hacked phones

“On 10 April last year in an article headlined ‘Royals believe Eugenie and Beatrice targeted’ we reported suspicions held by Prince Andrew that his daughters’ phones may have been hacked. Our article implied that hacking may have been carried out… Read more

Daily Telegraph apologizes to member of parliament

“We reported on 17th and 18th January (‘Huhne accused of leaking letter about new royal yacht’; and ‘All the malice of Machiavelli – but sadly none of his skill’) that Chris Huhne MP had leaked a letter about the new… Read more