Regret the Error

A window of opportunity is open right now for online journalists to build accuracy and accountability into the publishing systems we use every day … Editors at the dawn of the web understood they had to be accountable for changes they made to published stories, and so improvised a routine for handling substantive corrections: Fix [...]

Scott Rosenberg and Mark Follman of MediaBugs released a new report this week that highlights some corrections-related problems with Bay Area news outlets. (I’m an unpaid advisor to the project, but didn’t have any involvement with the report.) Here’s the core information: The results of MediaBugs’ first survey of Bay Area media correction practices show [...]