Regret the Error

"News delivered digitally in rapid cycles — with much less time for editing and oversight — will create more lapses. It is simply physics. The cure, or at least a salve, for this condition is transparency, accountability, humility. If The Times is going to publish more and faster, it will have to react faster to rectify more mistakes. The speed and volume of correction or response has to try to equal the speed and volume of error."

– From the debut column by the New York Times' new public editor, Arthur Brisbane. See my previous post, "Speed versus accuracy in journalism: towards a new debate."

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