Transparency Hotness: Tribune Walks Readers Through a Correction

In an era when standards appear to be declining at online news outlets, it’s encouraging to see a blog up its game and advance the cause of transparency.

We therefore applaud to the Chicago Tribune, whose TribNation blog today walked readers, step by step, through the process of correcting an error.

The Tribune discussed its error — putting percentage signs after per-100,000-people gun death statistics — at length, and then published internal emails leading up to the ensuing correction.

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