WSJ pulls article from website after error

The Wall Street Journal has pulled an article from its website that ran in the paper earlier this week due to an error.

The article “Grant Flows to Troubled Nonprofit,” originally published on March 25, has been removed because it was incorrect.
The Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council isn’t slated to receive a “member item” grant –an earmark with an anonymous sponsor slated for a nonprofit group – of nearly $2 million under New York’s latest budget deal, as was erroneously reported in the article. That grant was, in fact, made in 1994 and was used by the council to build a youth center in 2004. The article incorrectly said that the grant is new and was expected to be made this year. The entire article, including the reaction and analysis, was based on this incorrect factual premise.

The author of the article was Laura Nahmias. Her LinkedIn page lists her as a “contributing reporter” to The Journal since October 2012.

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.