Errors and Omissions

The Globe clarifies its screw-up on Jefferson Price

From today's Boston Globe:

Correction: An editor's note published on Saturday about a July 2005 article on a Catholic Relief Services volunteer in Sudan implied that the author, freelance writer G. Jefferson Price III, had not disclosed to the Globe that he was working for CRS. In fact, in an e-mail accompanying Price's submission of the article, and in a notation at the end of the article, Price did disclose that he was working for the organization. Editors failed to review those materials adequately; because of Price's affiliation with the organization, the Globe should not have published the article.

This blog posted on the impact of Jefferson Price's affiliation with Catholic Relief Services here and here. Both the Baltimore Sun and Globe editors didn't take this seriously enough--as it turns out, in each case they knew about Price's affiliation and still published his material without scrutinizing its connection with CRS issues/priorities.


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posted by Unknown @ 6/14/2006 08:17:00 AM