T-J debacle: Opportunity to improve corrections policy
The firing of the Telegraph-Journal’s editor today and the departure of its publisher is truly astonishing news. Shakeups such as this don’t happen often — especially when they are related to publication of a single story. (That said, the T-J, under editor Shawna Richer, made a number of questionable moves in recent months.) The New [...]
Copyediting 2.0
The Washington Post’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reported yesterday that readers are getting increasingly upset over the number of typos, formatting mistakes and grammatical errors in news stories. He cites, for example, references to a “Democratically” (instead of Democrat-) controlled Congress and the Marine “Corp” (instead of Corps). Alexander blames the Post’s layoff of copy editors [...]
Authored by Tim Currie, Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the