Chapter Two

Improving Accuracy

The struggle to live up to journalism’s first commandment, get it right, is waged from The Free Press in Mankato, Minn., circulation 23,000,  to the Chicago Tribune, circulation 680,000. Readers can report errors in online forms. Editors correct, track and categorize mistakes. Technology plays a part, with computer maps and plagiarism-detection programs. Featuring Spotlight Site:The Free Press, Mankato, Minn.    

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