EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Street Competition that moved Thursday, Feb. 23, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error occurred in the third graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX – A Feb. 23 Cronkite News story about a Street Pitch competition misspelled the first name of PHX Startup Week’s chief organizer. His name is Stephen Viramontes.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-ICE Fight that moved Thursday, Feb. 16, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to note the following byline correction. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – Due to an editor’s error, a Feb. 16 Cronkite News story on a meeting between House members and officials of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ran under the wrong byline. That story was written by Cronkite News reporter Joseph Guzman.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Vote Fraud that moved Wednesday, Jan. 25, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error occurred in the 17th graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – A Jan. 25 Cronkite News story on allegations of voter fraud in the November election misspelled the first name of Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged Sports-Sneak Peek that moved Wednesday, Jan. 25, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX – The byline on a Cronkite News story about the early glimpse the NCAA will provide to the men’s basketball tournament bracket gave an incorrect first name for the reporter. The story was written by Justin Toscano.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Latin Studies that moved Thursday, Dec. 8, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX – A Cronkite News story about the rising interest in Latin American studies incorrectly identified a person included in the story and the school where she works. Emily O’Neil is a special education aide at a charter school in the Valley.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Opioids Doctor Training that moved Friday, Jan. 6, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the eighth graf of the original story. The graf can be fixed by swapping “UA medical school, the state’s only medical school” with “University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, the state’s largest medical school” in that graf and adding “in Tucson” to the end of the fifth graf: She’s in charge of adding new guidelines on how to properly prescribe opioids and address chronic pain in the curriculum at the University of Arizona’s medical school in Tucson. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX – A Cronkite News story about the role of doctor training in reducing opioid abuse contained inaccurate information about Arizona medical schools that offer doctor of medicine degrees. Both the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix offer degrees.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Opioids Doctors that moved Friday, Jan.6, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the 25th graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here. (The story correctly stated the doctor’s status in the second-to-last paragraph.)
PHOENIX – A Cronkite News story about doctors who overprescribe prescription pain pills misstated information about Tucson’s Robert C. Osborne, who was indicted in December 2014. He has pleaded not guilty. The error was made during the editing process.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged SPORTS-Plummer Painkillers that moved Wednesday, Dec. 28, under a BOULDER, Colo., dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the third graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
BOULDER, Colo. – A Cronkite News story on the use of cannabidiol as an alternative to other painkillers misstated the amount of THC, the chemical in marijuana that causes a “high,” in hemp-derived CBDs. Cannabidiols contain minute levels of THC, but not enough to produce any psychoactive effects, or highs.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-GED Driven that moved Monday, Dec. 12, under a COTTONWOOD dateline, are asked to use the following correction. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
COTTONWOOD – The headline on a Dec. 12 Cronkite News story on GED preparation courses funded by the Mexican consulate for Mexican nationals here gave the wrong home city for the woman who was the focus of the piece. Zahide Betancourt lives in Cottonwood, as the story correctly stated.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Passing Clemency that moved Monday, Dec. 12, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the 19th graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – A Dec. 12 Cronkite News story on the pace of prison sentence commutations under President Barack Obama failed to recognize one of the groups pushing for justice reform. When Cynthia Roseberry said, “We have recommended … that these mandatory minimum sentences be stopped,” she was referring to the work of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, for which she is a board member.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged Sports-Coyotes Westgate that moved Wednesday, Nov. 16, under a GLENDALE dateline, are asked to use the following correction. A clarification has been made to the headline. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
GLENDALE – A Nov. 16 Cronkite News story about the impact on the Westgate Entertainment District of the possible departure of the Arizona Coyotes included a headline that may have incorrectly represented reaction to the possible move.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Shrinking Farmland that moved Monday, Nov. 14, under a BUCKEYE dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the ninth graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
BUCKEYE – A Nov. 14 Cronkite News story about the declining farm acreage in Arizona gave an incorrect number for the average size of farms in the state in 1997. The 8,507 farms in the state that year averaged 3,194 acres in size, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture census.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Hotter Arizona that moved Friday, Oct. 21, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following clarification. An updated version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – An Oct. 21 Cronkite News story about climate change and how Arizona water resources officials are preparing for it may have left an incorrect impression about temperature impact in parts of the state. While some parts of Arizona could see 100 days above 100 degrees in 20 years, southwestern parts of the state could have more than 140 such days, according to EPA climate models.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Goodbye Columbus that moved Monday, Oct. 10, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the second graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – An Oct. 10 Cronkite News story about Native Americans’ views on Columbus Day gave the wrong location for the Navajo Nation’s Wide Ruins Community School. The school is located outside the town of Chambers.
EDS: Clients who used a story slugged D-backs firings that moved Oct. 3, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error occurred in the third graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX – An Oct. 3 Cronkite News story about the Diamondbacks front office changes included an old job position for Kim Ng. Ng is Major League Baseball’s senior vice president of baseball operations.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged Sports-Arizona Racing that moved Wednesday, Sept.28, under a PHOENIX dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the fourth graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
PHOENIX– A Sept. 28 Cronkite News story about the Arizona Open Wheel Racing Museum misstated the size of the facility. The museum is in a 15,000-square-foot facility in east Phoenix.
EDS: Clients who used a story slugged Verde water conservation that moved Sept. 15, under a VERDE VALLEY dateline, are asked to use the following correction for a photo caption that accompanied the story. A corrected version of the story and caption has been posted here.
VERDE VALLEY – A Sept. 15 story about a Verde Valley water-conservation program incorrectly identified the name of a waterway in the area. Oak Creek, pictured in the photo, is a tributary of the Verde River.
EDS: Clients who used an undatelined Cronkite News story slugged Sports-Basketball Borders that moved Thursday, Sept. 22, are asked to use the following correction. The errors occurred in the fifth and 19th grafs of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
A Sept. 22 Cronkite News story about the NBA’s efforts to expand basketball overseas may have left an incorrect impression about the scope and locations of some programs involved in that effort. Basketball Without Borders has held 14 camps in Africa, one this summer in Angola. And the Jr. NBA program, which operates in 35 countries, is just one of the programs run by the NBA that reached 12 million youth in the last year.
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Endangered Shuffle that moved Wednesday, Sept. 21, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error occurred in the 13th graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – A Sept. 21 Cronkite News story about endangered species status decisions for the Huachuca springsnail and the Sonoyta mud turtle included a quote in the wrong tense. The Center for Biological Diversity’s Michael Robinson said future generations “will be so grateful if we protect this tiny snail.”
EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Hualapai Water that moved Wednesday, Sept. 14, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error occurred in the last graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – A Sept. 14 Cronkite News story about a proposed water-rights settlement with the Hualapai tribe misquoted the sponsor of the bill, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona. Flake said the state “has a history of forward-looking water planning. We need to continue this kind of planning and do more.”
