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Forbes apologizes to Ireland president

Forbes says it’s apologizing to Ireland’s president for inaccurately describing him as gay in an online article, according to an Associated Press article.

The AP story reads, “The New York-based media company pulled the offending piece from its website Wednesday and replaced it with an apology to readers and, indirectly, to President Michael D. Higgins.

“‘Forbes will be issuing an apology to President Higgins in a separate correspondence,’ the publisher said.

“Higgins, who has a wife and four children, offered no immediate response.

“The article, posted Tuesday by Ireland-based blogger David Monagan, called Higgins an ‘acknowledged homosexual.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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