I have created this page in an effort to provide transparency and offer others access to a selection of the research materials I used while writing this book. This is a great starting point for anyone interested in learning more about the issue of media errors and accuracy, and these links can also be used to fact check some of my work in the book.
By no means does this listing represent a complete accounting of the books, articles and other materials I used while writing Regret the Error. It is, however, a collection of the most useful and important material that can be accessed online.
Press/News History
The Public’s Perception of the Press
- Examining Our Credibility: Perspectives of the Public and the Press — ASNE
- Report Card on Canadian News Media
- BBC/Reuters/Media Center Poll: Trust in the Media
- Journalism, Transparency and the Public Trust — Aspen Institute
- Study: Journos, Public Hold Divergent Views on Media
- BBC - Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2002 - A Question of Trust
Human Error
- The Health Report: 19 December 2005 - Absent-mindedness/Risk Management - Radio National Summer
- Why safety is like a swiss cheese — Sunday Herald Sun
Newspaper Accuracy Studies
- Getting It Right? Not in 59 Percent of Stories — Newspaper Research Journal
- Local news source opinions of their newspapers — Newspaper Research Journal
- Newspaper accuracy: A new approach — Newspaper Research Journal
- Quality! Influence! Profits! — Poynter Online
- Saving Journalism — Columbia Journalism Review
- Medill Reporter and Editor Attitudes to errors
- Reign of Error — Slate.com
Broadcast Accuracy Studies
- The Accuracy of Local TV News — NewsLab Research
- Measuring Accuracy: A Survey of Television News Managers’ Attitudes
- Developing a New Measurement for Television News Accuracy
- Measuring newscast accuracy: Applying a newspaper model to television
- THE FIRST HOURS OF SEPTEMBER 11th: How Accuracy and Sourcing Fared in Three Television Networks’ Breaking News Coverage
- TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS & THE INVALID APPLICATION OF A UTILITARIAN JUSTIFICATION: A Practical Plan for Consequential Ethical Dialogue BEFORE Breaking News Occurs
- Errors on Air: If newspapers and magazines are expected to correct mistakes, what about television? — American Journalism Review
Fact Checking
- David House on Post-Publication Fact-Checking and Deterring Plagiarism — CJR Daily
- Red flags — American Journalism Review
- Perspectives on The Times: Delusions of Accuracy — Columbia Journalism Review
- Chucking the Checkers — Columbia Journalism Review
- “Just the Facts, Ma’am” — Ryerson Review of Journalism
- “Are You Completely Bald?” — The New Republic (excerpt)
- Playing Defense: Is enough being done to prevent future journalistic embarrassments? — American Journalism Review
- The New Yorker’s Fact-Checking Machine — Columbia Journalism Review
- A Checkered Present — Ryerson Review of Journalism
Other
- 44 Tips for Greater Accuracy — ASNE
- Focus on Accuracy — Editing the Future Conference (lots of material here including sample accuracy checklists and a video)
- The Wolf in Reporter’s Clothing: The Rise of Pseudo-Journalism in America — ASNE
- Reporting Tools: News and Numbers — Facsnet.org
- Writers’ Block — Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Math Tools for Journalists / Numbers in the Newsroom: Using Math and Statistics in News — Newspaper Research Journal
