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Five front page stories that didn't happen - World - CBC News

Vengeful dentist story 'a hoax,' MSNBC claims - Your Community

Tabloid Watch: Fake Twitter accounts have 'fooled other people' says MailOnline publisher

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Newsmangled: In the Internet age, Satre misquote won’t go away - thestar.com

Newsmangled: Tornado advice you can laugh at - thestar.com

Stars and Stripes’ new ombudsman begins work as predecessor’s criticisms reverberate | Poynter.

Newsmangled: How sharing a name can bring you into disrepute - thestar.com

Newsmangled: Marketplace radio program airs false story on Iraqi ‘sniper’ - thestar.com

Newsmangled: Daily Mail wins Orwellian Prize for ‘cannabis’ story - thestar.com

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.

How Reddit users debunked two hoaxes created by a university class

How Reddit users debunked two hoaxes created by a university class (Source: The Atlantic)

Social journalism research helps explain how information is verified on Twitter

Alfred Hermida‘s research on social journalism can help journalists better understand verification and accuracy on Twitter. Two papers in particular caught my eye: “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification” and “Twittering the News: The… Read more

U.K. paper apologizes for saying female musician slept with DJ

U.K. tabloid the Daily Mirror apologizes for saying that a female musician was one of many women who supposedly slept with a well known BBC DJ:

Following our article of 1 May 2012 in which it was reported that… Read more

HuffPost, CNN, Mediaite fall for fake Twitter account of NC governor

The Huffington Post rather embarrassingly fell for a fake Twitter account and wrote a story yesterday about one of its tweets.

This is but the latest in the long running saga of hoax tweets being taken for real by… Read more

Daily Beast notes the acerbic pen of editor Bill Bradlee. Wait, who?

Call the irony police.

A Daily Beast story about some of the best correspondence from former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee (note the first name) contains this 1978 advice in reply to a young man who asked for… Read more

NYT’s Brian Stelter corrects Bill O’Reilly, Chaz Bono error

Today’s New York Times includes a correction to rectify a mistaken claim contained in a Brian Stelter story. In a look at the depiction of gay characters on TV, he wrote that Bill O’Reilly had complained about Chaz Bono… Read more

Early edition of New York Post wrongly declares Rangers victory

National Post sports columnist Bruce Arthur tweeted this image of a sports page from an early edition of Thursday’s New York Post:

Actually, the Washington Capitals beat the Rangers last night, forcing a seventh game in their playoff… Read more

‘Abraham Lincoln invented Facebook’ tale was the perfect shareable story

This week, a powerful, infinitely shareable blog post was picked up by many news sites and shared online an astounding number of times. The story was that Abraham Lincoln had filed a patent application for an idea that was remarkably… Read more

Guardian corrects correction about Eugene Levy

The Guardian had to correct a correction about actor Eugene Levy. The first, from May 8:

A profile of Eugene Levy, the American actor famed for his role in American Pie, stated: “He’s keen to be the average Joe —… Read more

New York Times corrects name of Howard Stern’s bulldog

The New York Times corrected the name of Howard Stern’s bulldog:

An earlier version of this article misstated the name of Howard Stern’s bulldog. It’s Bianca, not Bernice.