I owe Steve Buttry a big favor. In October I went to Washington to attend the Online News Association's conference. Buttry, who is the director of community engagement at TBD, invited me to give a presentation about errors and accuracy at American University. This was part of TBD and AU's series of blogging workshops. You [...]
We have no copy editors at TBD and got criticized for that after a famous correction. While the newsroom staffing was Editor Erik Wemple’s decision, I fully support it. You can’t do everything, and a digital operation can correct after publication with less damage than a print publication very few people saw the original error [...]
It’s a rare and wonderful thing to see a news organization criticized for making too big of a deal about an error and correction made by one of its writers. The issue is usually the opposite—a call for transparency, rather than a plea to, well, shut up. But here we are, thanks to a now-famous [...]
This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men. Link Thanks, Greg! Update Oct. 12, 2010: This correction is attracting a lot of attention. From a post by the folks at TBD: [...]
At the very beginning of the process of explaining what it all means, we incorrectly stated that today was Tuesday. Today is Wednesday. We regret the error. Link Thanks, @bydanielvictor! Report an error
