Some interesting correction tallies are contained in this week's Ombudsman Round-Up. (Some may also remember that last week we ran an item about The Boston Globe's tally.)
- Paul Moore of The Baltimore Sun writes about the common complaint that newspapers' "reports of criminal charges being dropped are not as prominently displayed as earlier stories on the charges being filed."
- Kate Parry of The Minneapolis Star Tribune writes about the paper's possible lack of balance when reporting about a 34- year-old murder case that police believe they have solved.
- Jeffrey A. Dvorkin of NPR writes about the broadcaster's dropping of its "timechecks" and also highlights other reader objections and suggestions.
- Daniel Okrent of The New York Times writes about the use of numbers in the media (and in one Times story in particular).
- Armando Acuña of The Sacramento Bee, who has dropped the "ombudsman" title in favor of "public editor," writes about corrections. He dipped into the paper's internal database and found: "There were 481 in 2004, according to The Bee's library, up from 432 in 2003. Since 2000, when there were 279 errors in this furthest year I went back, the number has steadily increased."
- Michael Arrieta-Walden of The Oregonian also writes about corrections and here are his tallies: "Last year, the newspaper printed 888 corrections...we recorded 824 corrections in 2003, 679 in 2002 and 718 in 2001."
- Connie Coyne of The Salt Lake Tribune writes about selecting images for the paper.
- Michael Getler of The Washington Post writes about how The Post was misled by a source, how this was revealed in an Esquire article, and how the paper chose to follow up on the deception.
