COMM 2310 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Dallas Morning News, Answering Machine
29 Apr 2017
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A: corrections are printed or posted when a journalist makes a mistake. Almost every news organization considers them an indictment of a journalist who has been lazy, incompetent, careless, or worse, corrupt. If a journalist has continued corrections, she most likely will be fired. At the dallas morning news, for example, a journalist who makes more than three corrections in a year is fired. Each correction requires a sit-down talk with an editor, with the journalist receiving a reprimand. Q: as a journalist, i realized i made a mistake in a story after it was published, but no one caught it and no one complained. If you realize you made a mistake, you must run a correction, period. You may not get caught on this today or tomorrow, but chances are, it would be discovered at some point. A: here"s an example: an earlier version of this story gave the incorrect age of.
