In the wake of the Rolling Stone rape story, its retraction, and Columbia School of Journalism’s excellent analysis of the many ways Rolling Stone and journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely went wrong, Monica Guzman wrote about fear and fact-checking for Columbia Journalism Review. She raises some strong points. Journalists fear big mistakes (and little mistakes, too), and that fear motivates us to be extra thorough in our fact-checking and reporting. Usually.
Also, in our over-sharing world, we hav...
Published on April 25, 2015 18:20