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What IT security can teach us about accuracy

November 15, 2007 – 8:00 am

Bruce Schneier, one of the leading thinkers in IT security, recently wrote a column for Wired.com in which he uses the example of corrupt NBA referee Tim Donaghy to examine systems that suffer from single points of failure. The same concept directly relates to journalism and accuracy.
What sorts of systems — IT, financial, NBA [...]

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More on the Times’ corrections database

November 1, 2007 – 8:00 am

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 [...]

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NY Times corrections database goes live

October 12, 2007 – 4:01 pm

The good folks at Check Your Facts recently published an item stating that the roll out of the New York Times internal corrections database is complete. The paper is now entering all of its corrections into a central database, much like how the Boston Globe, Rocky Mountain News and a few other US papers have [...]

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