The Los Angeles Times has been hearing complaints from readers about typos and grammatical errors. The feedback was mentioned in this piece. Just about every newspaper these days gets complaints of that nature, and it’s good that readers speak up. But what’s notable about the Times story is the information offered up in response by [...]
Asking your users to report inaccuracies strikes me as a fabulous idea, and likely very productive see: “someone is wrong on the internet!“ I have no knowledge of the quantity of errors submitted using these forms, or how the corrections process works. My suspicion is that each submitted correction sends an email to some hapless [...]
In his final column, outgoing Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander writes that the Post … has become riddled with typos, grammatical mistakes and intolerable "small" factual errors that erode credibility. Local news coverage, once robust, has withered. The Post often trails the competition on stories. The excessive use of anonymous sources has expanded into blogs. [...]
The folks at the NYTPicker, a blog that reports on the New York Times, took special notice of the corrections page in today’s paper. It is worth highlighting, as the Time published 36 corrections. (I recently profiled the NYTPicker for PBS MediaShift.) Sunday is the biggest day for Times corrections. It’s when the paper corrects [...]
