What if journalists handled errors…

Scott Rosenberg -- MediaBugs.org Ignite SF | March 2, 2010

the  way  programmers  handle  bugs?  

Pew Research Center, Sep. 2009

  59 percent of local news and feature stories found by news sources to have at least one error.

  “I tracked 1,220 news stories identified by news sources as being factually flawed. Of those, corrections were published for 23 of them -- a corrections rate slightly below two percent.”

-- Scott Maier, University of Oregon