A newspaper article printing an article that contains false
information with regards to an individual or organisation would be
libellous. For instance, if the article incorrectly stated that a
person had a criminal record, or claimed that the person had said
something that they had not. Certain tabloid newspapers are
notorious for libel, due to not checking their sources
sufficiently.
Libel is an incident of defamation in writing, as opposed to
slander, which is a spoken defamation.