text: The future of James Murdoch | Action for Employment | Swedish warship Vasa | Financial Times and the New York Times | unlikely places | Gwynedd Hospital
  Wednesday 17 August 2011 07.48 EDT
  First published on Wednesday 17 August 2011 07.48 EDT
  • A comment article on the future of James Murdoch referred to an email headed "for Neville". The article carried the following sentences: "There were two people in the room with James Murdoch that day in 2008. Both have now asserted firmly that not only was he aware of the email, but it was shown to him there and then." To clarify: according to a letter from Tom Crone, former legal chief of News Group Newspapers, to John Whittingdale, chairman of the DCMS select committee, the email was either shown or described to Murdoch. Also, the subheading on the article referred to James Murdoch as News Corporation's chairman. He is in fact deputy chief operating officer of News Corp (The end for Murdoch Jr?, 17 August, page 26).
  • A panel that accompanied a report on the England riots, profiling Emma Harrison, chairman of A4E (Action for Employment), incorrectly referred to A4E as a "social enterprise". A4E describes itself as a "social purpose" company. The Social Enterprise Mark company asks us to make clear that the government defines social enterprises as "businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community" (Emma Harrison: Families champion paid by results, 16 August, page 4).
  • England riots: pair jailed for four years for using Facebook to incite disorder was corrected because the original should have referred to the recorder of Chester as Elgan Edwards, not Elgin Edwards.
  • Rick Perry attacks Ben Bernanke's 'treasonous' Federal Reserve strategy was corrected because the original quoted Rick Perry as saying "Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous – or treasonous in my opinion". That should have been "almost treacherous".
  • Camper killed by fumes was corrected because the original referred to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital. This is tautologous, "Ysbyty" means hospital in Welsh.
  • How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world was amended to reinstate the word "unlikely" into the following sentence: "The crumpling is contagious, fuelling rebellions in the most of places."
  • China denies inspecting US helicopter used in Bin Laden raid was corrected because the New York Times also reported that Pakistan gave Chinese military engineers access to the aircraft – the original only mentioned the Financial Times.
  • Simon Hoggart's week: sailing through dire economic straits was corrected because the original said that the 17th century Swedish warship, the Vasa, was recently recovered, largely intact, from the sea where it sank on its maiden voyage. To clarify: the Vasa was eventually raised in 1961 with its hull, not the entire ship, largely intact.