Variety used a photo of Venus Williams for a story about Serena Williams
Variety fixed the photo on their website, but left their tweet with the wrong photo up for more than three hours.
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TBS showed Arizona’s starting lineup instead of Dayton’s
TBS' lineup for Dayton had the right names, but the wrong faces.
Associated Press tweets Ejiro Evero photo with Raheem Morris story, apologizes, deletes apology tweet
Both the initial AP tweet and the apology went wrong.
MLB, media outlets roasted for Shōta Imanaga image mistakes
@MLB tweeted a bad photoshop of Shōta Imanaga, while other outlets used a photo of Shōta Takeda.
Sunday Night Football’s tweet of Pro Football Talk AFC power rankings included the not-in-the-AFC Bears
The Bears are not the 10th-best AFC team.
Fox promoted their Nebraska-Northwestern Ireland game with a graphic including Kansas State’s mascot
Missed it by that much, Fox.
ESPN used Oklahoma instead of Oklahoma State in a Fiesta Bowl preview graphic
ESPN has mixed up in-state rivals on at least one other occasion, placing Michigan State in the Ohio State-Michigan game in 2016.
NPR used a photo of Kimberley A. Martin for a story about Maria Taylor
This was a notable miss by NPR.
ESPN tagged Future in a post with a photo of 2 Chainz and got roasted, but Getty’s database seems at least partly at...
While Getty's captions correctly identified 2 Chainz here, their photos featured a tag of "People: Future," which may have contributed to ESPN's error.
The White Sox email on Tony La Russa’s hire included A.J. Hinch’s signature, which they blamed on preparing multiple versions
The White Sox's e-mail announcement of La Russa's hire included Hinch's signature in the graphic, for some reason.
FC Cincinnati tweets photo of Tinus van Teunenbroek instead of new coach Jaap Stam, gets sent photos of other bald white men
No, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Charles Dance, and Stone Cold Steve Austin won't be coaching FC Cincinnati either.
ESPN ran a photo of the Japanese Davis Cup team with a story about the Chinese team
A photo of the Japanese Davis Cup team accompanied an AP story about the Chinese Davis Cup team on the ESPN app.
Canadian newspaper The National Post ran a dubious story on Donald Brashear with a mislabeled photo of Georges Laraque
Brashear played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1993-97; the Post initially used a Getty photo from 2009 that mislabeled Georges Laraque as Brashear.
A mislabeled AP photo of Mark Helfrich has been used in Matt Nagy stories for months, including an ESPN one Monday
The Sept. 23 photo of "Nagy" that's actually of Helfrich has spread across newspapers and digital sites, with no one seemingly noticing until now.
C.J. Nitkowski says erroneous Fox Sports Southwest graphic didn’t air [updated]
No, Ichiro Suzuki, Rod Carew, Adrian Beltre and Roberto Clemente are not Sammy Sosa, Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz.
CBC uses photo of Barbara and George H.W. Bush with Venus Williams tweet
Photo errors can happen, especially with feed tweets that sometimes can put a headline with a wrong photo...
Essence posts story on Simone Biles with photo of Simone Manuel
It’s apparently not just ESPN’s SportsCenter Twitter account that has issues with identifying American athletes. Less than a...