A Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Journalist by Any Other Name

New York Times national correspondent Alan Schwarz gets whacked by a content box.

At the bottom of a recent interview in Minnesota’s Winona Daily News with New York Times national correspondent Alan Schwarz, there is the following:

WinonaDailyNewsInfoCorrection

As FishbowlNY can attest, these things happen. What happens less frequently, however, is the correction being incorrect (the paper mangled both Schwarz’s first and last name) and the “earlier version” of the story to which the correction refers still appearing above the correction.

WinonaDailyNewsInfoBoxMaking this just a little bit more painful is the fact that directly to the left of the delinquent content box (pictured) is this paragraph:

Schwarz often finds mistakes.

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