Craig Silverman tracks accuracy, errors & the craft of verification.
The first session at today’s National Summit on Plagiarism and Fabrication shared some of the findings and recommendations contained in the new, free ebook, “Telling the Truth and Nothing But.” (More on the book and summit in my previous post… Read more
By the end of last summer, I was worn out.
It seemed like every week brought a new, awful incident of plagiarism or fabrication at news organizations large and small. My job was to write about all of them, to … Read more
A few weeks ago, Circa founding editor David Cohn listened uncomfortably as an acquaintance spoke about Hurricane Sandy and cited the widely circulated image of a scuba diver in the New York subway.
“This person didn’t know that was a fake … Read more
I can’t wait to welcome our robot journalist colleagues into the newsroom (or server room).
Newsrooms already rely on machine intelligence/processing, and increasingly so. We use machines to help us predict the next big story, to inform how we should manage … Read more
Stop a journalist on the street and ask her to list the fundamentals of the job and you’re almost certain to hear mention of accuracy.
In “The Elements of Journalism,” Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel wrote that journalism’s “essence … Read more
In recent years, though certainly not recently, many conference attendees have heard Jonah Lehrer speak about how our brains and our personal interactions affect our behaviours in interesting and surprising ways.
During his talk at a Knight Foundation event Tuesday, it was much … Read more
The Associated Press issued a correction late last week to address reporting that cited Manti Te’o's fake girlfriend as real. As reported in Mike Allen’s Playbook at Politico, here’s the correction:
In a Sept. 15, 2012, story about Notre Dame’s
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A correction to a recent David Carr piece about Trey Parker and Matt Stone is a good reminder of the joys of a well-written correction: “While Kenny met his fate in a variety of ways over the years, he was … Read more
In an email to staff this morning, The Washington Post clarified its practices and standards for online corrections. The email was signed by three top editors, including Executive Editor Marty Baron, and was a succinct expression of the paper’s method … Read more
The New York Times will soon launch an online corrections form to make it easier for readers to report an error.
Greg Brock, the Times editor who oversees corrections, shared the information with Journalism.co.uk when he was interviewed for … Read more
