by Dan Gillmor | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog, Corrections
Dan Gillmor We have some good news for journalists who want to ensure that the public has the best and most accurate information. Corrections work. When you correct your errors, the people who see the corrections have a more accurate understanding of what you’ve...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 5, 2020 | Corrections
Corrections The ASU News Co/Lab is going deep on corrections. Not jails and prisons, but the mea culpas journalists offer when they’ve erred in their public work. Forthright corrections and major updates are an essential kind of transparency. They’re also by far the...
by Dan Gillmor | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Corrections
Day: January 27, 2020 (Note: This is adapted from a “Tweetstorm” earlier today.) More than a decade ago I begged journalists and sharers of breaking news to employ a “slow news” approach. The Kobe Bryant story demonstrates that need more than...
by Dan Gillmor | Nov 21, 2019 | Blog, Corrections, Homepage
Corrections What do journalistic corrections — and policies on how they should work — have in common across the news craft? Not much, apart from a consensus that forthright, prompt corrections of errors are a hallmark of integrity. Should they have a lot more in...
by Gail Rhodes | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Corrections
Blog As the News Co/Lab moves ahead in a new initiative to improve the effectiveness of journalistic corrections online, we’ve surveyed existing data on corrections, misinformation and fact-checking as a prelude to doing our own research. Our look into the field found...
by Dan Gillmor | Nov 5, 2019 | Blog, Corrections
Blog What happens when you get people from major news organizations, tech platform companies and academia into a room to talk about journalistic corrections and how to make them more effective in a digital media environment? We’re going to find out next week when...
