The Washington Times made an embarrassing mistake on its website last week. This picture pretty much speaks for itself: Yes, those are the Obama kids. No, they weren’t involved in the story. After being spotted by one blog, the image quickly spread. Some people said it was an example of the Times’ right-wing bias. The [...]
Matt Thompson, a fellow the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, wrote an interesting post about corrections for his Newsless blog. He notes the limitations of the online corrections pages of some newspaper websites, and also calls for a new way of pushing corrections out to readers: We could do much more with [...]
CheckYourFacts.org has expanded on a previous report about the recently-launched New York Times corrections database. The new story offers more details about how the database works and how the paper will use it to track and improve accuracy. It also includes an interview with Greg Brock, the senior editor who oversees the database and the [...]
