In the past 10 years, the Toronto Star’s public editor’s office has handled almost 9,000 corrections — more than 1,500 alone in 2019 (to end of November). Until then, let’s look back at the trends in a decade of Star corrections. As my corrections data tell us, readers and the sources cited in stories report most of the errors that result in corrections. What I’ve taken to call “garden-variety corrections” — resulting from usual, ordinary and commonplace mistakes — make up the bulk of those almost 9,000 corrections. Still, I have learned through these years that most every mistake the Star’s journalists make matters to someone for some reason.

Source: thestar December 20, 2019 10:52 UTC