By: E&P Staff Just four days after its public editor called for such a change, The New York Times announced this morning a major shift in its "Corrections" column that runs on page A2 every day.
Starting Friday, the corrections, which can number a dozen or more on some days, will be split into two groups, as Public Editor Daniel Okrent suggested in his column last Sunday, as a way to give more prominence to important foul-ups.
"Substantive errors," the editors said, will continue to fall under the Corrections heading. These are mistakes that "have materially affected the reader's understanding of a news development."
Narrower errors involving, for example, spellings, dates, or historical references, will appear under the heading, "For the Record."
This change, the editors explained, was "prompted by readers' suggestions" and was most recently highlighted by the Okrent column.
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