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More editing errors, and how we’ll fix ‘em

Yours truly had another screw up last week, the kind that reflects poorly on our hard-working reporters. We recently copped to a couple of these sorts of mistakes—errors created in the editing process. But acknowleding them is one thing. It’s more important to prevent them from happening in the first place.

With that in mind, we’re announcing a couple new editorial policies we think will help.

But first, the latest clarification (and the usual reminder that you can view all corrections and clarifications by clicking on the Corrections tag):

•Because of an editing error, an article on June 21 about Republican Lou Barletta’s criticism that Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-11) isn’t holding summer town hall meetings omitted key context about Kanjorski’s forum with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, including that it is a town-hall style meeting, open to the public to provide constituents, his office says, an opportunity to ask questions of a group that plays a role in investor education and consumer protection.

Now, it’s critical that these mistakes be much more rare than they have been. With that in mind, pa2010.com is making two editorial policy changes. First, as often as time and logistics allow, the edited versions of stories will be reviewed by reporters before publication, allowing a chance to catch errors created in the editing process. Second, reporters will save their own original versions of articles filed. This way, if mistakes do happen, the source of those errors can be identified accurately and promptly, allowing for quick correction.

Thanks for your trust folks. We’ll continue to do everything we can to earn it.

June 28, 2010 at 6:45 am

--Dan Hirschhorn

Tags: Corrections, Note to Readers

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