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Scott Rosenberg is author of DREAMING IN CODE and SAY EVERYTHING: HOW BLOGGING BEGAN, WHAT IT'S BECOMING AND WHY IT MATTERS. The former managing editor of Salon.com, he is now director of MediaBugs.org.
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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
