Sack the sub
Remember that time back in 2009 when The Australian published an article from then News Limited boss John Hartigan in sturdy defence of newspapers? Which was only slightly undermined by the misspelling of the word “newspapers”.
Halifax’s Chronicle Herald in Canada has pulled off a similar feat: Misspelling its own name in a headline about its award winning journalism.
(Hat-tip: Poynter)
2pm update: And in a spectacular case of glass houses and stones, this from today’s daily Mumbrella email:
Absolutely apaulling…!!!
haha good on you for pointing out the Mumbrella misstep 🙂
Tele spelled Bernard Tomic as Tonic today.
And the subject line of today’s Mumbrella enewsletter was missing a word…
“Is … the worst time ever to be a journalist?”
Sub department was no doubt made redundant before the mistake was made
The old hands among you would have noticed the terrible column break and the somewhat bizarre approach to the hyphenation zones. The even older hands would question note with disdain the choice of headline verb. Such matters are routinely dealt with quickly and thoughtfully.