2012 has so far been an error-filled year at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily circulation newspaper. (Disclosure: I write a weekly column for the paper, about the media error of the week.)

In a column last week, Public Editor … Read more

How do you handle a reporter who’s making more mistakes than usual?

The New York Times recently confronted this issue with a regular freelancer whose corrections total was spiking.

Greg Brock, the Times senior editor who oversees corrections, was able … Read more

Earlier this month I wrote about three newspapers — the Toronto Star, Kansas City Star and Washington Post – that publicly released their 2011 correction totals. I noted that, compared to previous years, there seem to be fewer papers releasing correction … Read more

It used to be that December and January would bring with them the publication of columns by newspaper editors and ombudsmen that offered an accounting of the number of corrections published by their organization that year.

So far, I’ve seen … Read more