Bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide
Every other month or so a story about a child bullied until he or she…
October 25, 2013
Accuracy Tips
Reynolds Center for Business Journalism creates accuracy checklist for journalists
Here's a little exercise for you. Who is this man? Yes, of course, it's Chesley…
March 27, 2012
Our brains resist correction, but there are ways to break through
It's taken a couple of months, but the New America Foundation is in the process…
March 1, 2012
How The New York Times’ corrections tracker improves accuracy
How do you handle a reporter who's making more mistakes than usual? The New York…
February 28, 2012
New campaign offers tips to help journalists get their numbers straight
Thanks to a campaign from the U.K.'s Royal Statistical Society, journalists now have access to a…
February 9, 2012
5 tips for getting photo IDs right
Mistaken identifications are among the most common photo errors I see corrected by the media.…
February 8, 2012
Students offer new rules for accurate journalism
In a column last year for Columbia Journalism Review I tried to put some journalism…
January 31, 2012
Copy editors’ advice for the new year: ‘Slow down’
Two editors recently shared some useful tips to help journalists detect and prevent mistakes. A…
January 10, 2012
Three tips for avoiding errors when dealing with archival content
Archives can be dangerous territory for journalists. Searching in databases or a newspaper's morgue can…
January 3, 2012