Regret the Error

This week’s edition of my Columbia Journalism Review Daily column is online here. Inspired by the example of Wales Online (background), I look at the issue of scrubbing. Here’s the opening of the column: Scrubbing Away Their Sins We used to be able to throw out the news; to disappear it. The morning paper would [...]

Poynter’s Amy Gahran has an interesting post up about a false report from the Press Association that moved its way around the web: On Nov. 29, the story ran in Wales Online: “We thought we were safe… then CNN stepped in!” said the headline. As of this writing you can still find it listed in [...]