It buys us a lot of goodwill out in the community, he said, despite the discomfort of one recent page featuring four corrections. The front-page index also points to their location. In addition to the current spot on the back of the front section, it would run in the section where the story with the slipup originally appeared. It really is an issue of credibility, whether you try to make your corrections visible, or whether you try to hide them, said Rodriguez, an ASNE board member. Putting corrections in two places, he said, improves chances that they ll be seen.
Newspapers are a tinkerer s dream.
Tomorrow is always another day to do it better. And these days, with journalistic credibility under scrutiny, corrections are getting a closer look. Judy Pace Christie, until recently executive editor of Florida Today in Melbourne, Fla., and now a consultant to Gannett, said editors everywhere are rethinking the wording as well as the placement of corrections. Sometimes it hurts, she said. But Christie, chairman of the Ethics and Values Committee, said ASNE studies find readers value newspapers that own up to mistakes.