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This is the blog of Julie Starr. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.
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* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.
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Tag Archives: accuracy
Mistakes are built into the system
I've had a few interesting conversations this week about quality control in newsrooms, in part sparked by the diagram I posted last week showing how many pairs of hands various kinds of news stories go through before being published. One thing that came up was how irritated people are by the number of typos regularly seen on news websites - including nzherald.co.nz and stuff.co.nz. As Nathan said in a recent comment, "I generally expect better of professionals."
How did Malcolm become Michael overnight?
There I was yesterday, banging on in a lecture to journalism students about sub-editing. Specifically, about the importance of checking facts and figures in stories and getting names, dates and places right. Small mistakes can have a disproportionately large effect on a reader's trust in a news organisation, said I. And what did I see on the front page of the Herald this morning? A story about the Vatican's revamp of the seven deadly sins attributed to a reporter called Michael Moore. But it wasn't by Michael at all, but by Malcolm Moore, the Telegraph's Rome-based correspondent.
A minimise-your-legal-risk blog list
Via Jeff Jarvis, here's a top 10 list of advice from Knight Citizen News Network on how to blog without blowing it. All common sense.
Dear BBC, thanks for letting me help
Wow. That was quick. I noticed a typo earlier on a BBC story and decided to see if they had a way for readers to contact them about howlers. I found one and sent in the typos. Sure enough, 5 minutes later when I checked the story again, the changes had been made
So you found something wrong on the internet? No worries. Just fix it.