CBC journalist’s photo mistakenly used in U.S. singer Laura Lynch’s obituaries | CBC News

Vancouver journalist Laura Lynch spent the morning of Christmas Eve fielding messages from associates who had seen articles that includes her picture, title, and the announcement that she had died in Texas on Friday. 

Actually, the CBC journalist shares her title with the founding member of U.S. nation band The Chicks, previously known as the Dixie Chicks, whose tragic demise in a automobile crash at age 65 was reported broadly this weekend. 

However some protection, together with networks like Fox Information and on-line information web site The Every day Beast, used pictures of Lynch, the CBC journalist and host of local weather change options present What On Earth, as an alternative. One individual on X, previously referred to as Twitter, even eulogized the journalist, prompting a correction from Lynch. 

“The primary response I am having to it’s the way it might be seen as disrespectful to her household,” Lynch advised CBC. “This simply has the potential to compound their grief, so I really feel terribly about that.”

Obituary utilizing a photograph of the incorrect Laura Lynch:

Based on a CBC spokesperson, the corporate realized the journalist’s picture was getting used early Sunday morning and has been asking publications to take away the picture and challenge corrections.

“We additionally reached out to picture licensing websites to ask that picture descriptions of Laura on their platforms clearly determine her as a Canadian journalist,” the spokesperson mentioned in an electronic mail. “A variety of retailers have since eliminated her photos from their tales.”

The primary picture being shared is considered one of Lynch, the journalist, attending a 2019 media gala in California. This was initially out there for buy on a inventory picture web site, Getty Pictures, with no disclosure within the caption about what Lynch does or the place she works. The location has since added the phrase “journalist” to its caption of her picture. 

“Persons are dashing to get issues achieved however we’re nonetheless speculated to verify the details,” Lynch mentioned. “Photographs are highly effective.”

Laura Lynch, the musician who co-founded the favored nation band in 1989, died in a head-on automobile collision on a freeway outdoors of El Paso on Friday, the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned in an announcement.

Lynch left the band in 1995. An announcement from The Chicks after her sudden demise known as Lynch a “vibrant mild” who was “instrumental” to the group’s early success.