May 21, 2015

NPR

Since I started on this beat nearly a year ago, I’ve seen a lot of corrections. Some are funny, some are morbid and some seem obvious in retrospect. But NPR on Thursday published something I’ve never witnessed before — the seldom-seen correction-correction-clarification.

Clarification

May 21, 2015

In a previous correction on this post, we corrected something that was actually correct. So we have corrected that correction. It had to do with Celsius temperatures.

RELATED: NPR: Before you write a correction — or correct that correction — notify the author.

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Benjamin Mullin was formerly the managing editor of Poynter.org. He also previously reported for Poynter as a staff writer, Google Journalism Fellow and Naughton Fellow,…
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