A newspaper that makes a mistake and erases the trace is no more credible than one that never makes mistakes. Corrections to published articles end up here, most recent first: the date of the intervention, the article, what changed and why.
When a correction enters this log
Not every change is a correction. These belong here:
- rectification — a fact was wrong (a date, a number, a name, an outcome);
- clarification — the fact was right but presented in a way that could mislead;
- update — the story changed after publication and the article follows it.
Corrections of form do not belong here: typos, punctuation, a shortened headline. Those are simply made, without a log.
How the intervention works
The article is corrected directly: I do not delete it and I do not rewrite it from scratch to hide that it was wrong. If the change alters the meaning of the story, the correction is also noted at the end of the article text with the date of the intervention, and it appears on this page.
Reports come through the Contact page: the link to the article, the sentence in question, the source that contradicts it. The full criteria are in Method and sources.