EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Sierra Club Report, which moved Wednesday, Aug. 30, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in grafs 10 and 11 of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – An Aug. 30 Cronkite News story about the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter’s latest environmental report card for the Arizona Legislature and governor misstated the focus of the Arizona State Parks Heritage Fund, which provides grant opportunities for trail projects; outdoor environmental education programs; local, regional and state parks; and historic preservation projects. The story also mischaracterized funding distribution for the Arizona State Parks Board, which received nearly $32 million in SB 1720, the state budget bill.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-MMIP Challenge, that moved Wednesday, Aug. 16, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in grafs 29 and 30 of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – An Aug. 16 Cronkite News story about missing and murdered Indigenous people misstated the number of states that require reports to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, and mischaracterized tribal police agencies’ access to the National Crime Information Center. Thirteen states, including Arizona, require police to file missing and unidentified persons reports with NamUs, while 123 tribes have direct access to NCIC. 

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Debt Dodge, that moved Tuesday, July 18, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the seventh graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – A July 18 Cronkite News story about a new White House plan for student debt relief misstated Rep. Debbie Lesko’s party affiliation. She is a Republican.

 

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Pool Partly, that moved Tuesday, July 4, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in grafs seven, eight, nine and 19 of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON– A July 4 Cronkite News story about the ongoing shortage of lifeguards misspelled the last name of one person in several instances. The executive director of the National Drowning Prevention Alliance is Adam Katchmarchi.

 

EDS: Clients who used the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism story slugged BC-CNS-Dental Board that moved Thursday, July 6, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following corrections and clarifications. The errors occurred in the eighth and 71st grafs of the original. The clarifications, which occurred in the eighth and 65th grafs, make clear Edmonson believes the board has improved since he began his role, and he disputes the number of vacancies listed by the Governor’s Office. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – A July story about the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners misspelled the last name of Ryan Edmonson, the board’s executive director. It also misstated the year Edmonson took his position. He started in 2019. The errors have been fixed. A paragraph quoting Edmonson has been clarified to say the dental examiner board was the worst-run he’d ever been a part of when he joined in 2019, but that it had made significant strides in performance since then. A paragraph about the number of vacancies on the board also has been clarified to say that although the Governor’s Office listed five vacancies, Edmonson said the board has no vacancies.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Entertainment District Q&A that moved Wednesday, May 10, under a TEMPE dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grafs of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

TEMPE – A May 10 story about the Tempe Entertainment District mischaracterized Sky Harbor International Airport’s Part 150 noise compatibility program, which deals with airport noise exposure and abatement. The story has been updated.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Innovation Challenge that moved Thursday, April 13, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the 12th graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – An April 13 story about a Phoenix innovation challenge gave an incorrect technology for Cryo-X’s cooling product. The company created a vinyl sticker that it claims will cool any outdoor surface using radiative cooling.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Medicaid Purge that moved Wednesday, April 5, under a WASHINGTON dateline are are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in the eighth, 11th and 12th grafs of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – An April 5 story about state efforts to verify the eligibility of people on Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System rolls mischaracterized parts of the verification process. AHCCCS, the state’s Medicaid program, expects that it can determine eligibility of about three-quarters of current enrollees simply by checking already-available federal data, and it is working with the Department of Economic Security to streamline the process for food stamp recipients.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged Sports-ASU Pro Day Unity that moved Thursday, March 30, under a TEMPE dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the 3rd graf and two photo captions of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

TEMPE – A March 30 story about ASU football pro day misspelled the first name of running back Xazavian Valladay.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Water Walkup that moved Friday, March 17, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in the 12th and 13th grafs of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – A March 17 story about a Navajo water rights case before the Supreme Court gave an incorrect title for Michael Lerma and misheard part of his quote that was used in the story. Lerma, who is the executive director of the Diné Policy Institute at Diné College, referred to tribes’ relationship to the federal government as that of “a quote-unquote ‘ward.'”

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Coyotes District Opposition that moved Monday, March 20, under a TEMPE dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred in the fifth, 22nd and 23rd grafs. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

TEMPE – A March 20 story about a proposed Arizona Coyotes arena and entertainment district included an outdated title for Lauren Kuby, who is a former senior global futures scientist at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. A parenthetical explanation in a quote from Kuby also was inaccurate. It should read: “We built the (request for) proposal just to attract one response, and that was the Coyotes.” Finally, the word “union” was deleted from “more than 6,000 jobs,” because the number of union jobs is unknown.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-ESA Rally that moved Wednesday, March 1, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to delete a photo that accompanied the story and replace the video. 

The photo has been deleted from our site and the video edited to remove imagery of some students. School officials identified the students as not having parental permission through the school to be photographed. The photo and video were taken at the Capitol in a public location, but Cronkite News is removing the images out of an abundance of caution because the subjects are minors.

The photo to be removed had the caption that read: Andrew Lee, director of the Vita High School program in Phoenix, left, and Janelle Wood,founder and CEO of Black Mothers Forum, lead a march around the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (Photo by Emily Mai/Cronkite News)

The updated video is available here.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged Sports-Bally Sports Bankruptcy Diamondbacks, that moved Thursday, Feb. 16, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the second graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – A Feb. 16 story about financial troubles for Diamond Sports Group, the parent of Bally Sports Arizona, which has the rights to broadcast Arizona Diamondbacks games, misstated the company’s debt. Diamond Sports Group this week failed to make a $140 million interest payment on its nearly $9 billion debt.

 

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Bad Air Out that moved Tuesday, Jan. 10, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction and clarification. The error occurred in the 31st and 34th grafs, and comments have been clarified in the 32nd and 43rd grafs. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – A Jan. 10 Cronkite News story about Maricopa County ozone levels included incorrect information about the moderate and serious non-attainment classification business offset requirements, which only apply to new businesses. And comments from Tim Franquist, environmental director at the Maricopa Association of Governments, have been updated.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Flagstaff Solar that moved Thursday, Jan. 19, under a FLAGSTAFF dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the ninth and 10th grafs. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

FLAGSTAFF – A Jan. 19 Cronkite News story about a new Salt River Project solar plant planned near Flagstaff included incorrect timing and misattributed a quote related to an antitrust lawsuit filed against the utility in 2020. One of the plaintiffs alleged in the complaint that he was “‘directly and economically hurt by’ SRP’s exclusionary pricing scheme, which is aimed at suppressing competition by discouraging customers from installing solar-energy systems.” The comments were related to the 2015 public price process, which was updated in 2019. The lawsuit was thrown out by a lower court in 2020 but reversed by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year.

EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Cloud Seeding that moved Thursday, Dec. 15, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in several photo captions. A corrected version of the story has been posted here, and photos with updated captions are below for reference.

PHOENIX – A Dec. 15 Cronkite News story about cloud seeding included captions with five photos that misidentified the make and engine type of the pictured plane. It is a Cessna aircraft with a piston engine.

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EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Dreamers Deferred that moved Wednesday, Dec. 21, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The error occurred in the seventh graf of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – A Dec. 21 Cronkite News story about Proposition 308 and the in-state college tuition break it created for undocumented Arizona residents misspelled the first name of Arizona Board of Regents Chair Lyndel Manson.