Corrections

We would rather be corrected than be wrong.

Reporting an error

Email [email protected] with the headline, the URL and the sentence you believe is wrong. If you have a source, include it. We read every message and answer the ones that concern a fact.

What happens next

We check the point against the original reporting. If we got it wrong we fix the sentence and add a note at the foot of the story saying when it was corrected. If the error changes the meaning of the headline, the headline changes too. We aim to answer within one working day and to correct within two.

Clarifications

When something was accurate but misleading, we add a clarification rather than rewriting history. Nothing is quietly deleted: a story that is withdrawn says so on the page, with the reason.

How we keep the record

Every change to a published story is saved with the text that came before it, the text that replaced it, and the time it happened. That trail is what backs the note at the foot of a corrected story — the change is recorded where the error was, next to the sentence it affected, rather than in a separate list that nobody reads twice.