Corrections

Why this page exists: a publication that handles facts is going to get a fact wrong eventually. When that happens here, the correction is published. The original text, the corrected text, the date, and the source that triggered the change are all on this page. The point is not to be impressive; it is to be reachable when something is wrong.

What gets corrected, and how

Two severities, two responses:

• Typo or formatting error. Silently fixed in place. No log entry. A misspelled word, a broken link, a missing space, a stray punctuation mark.
• Material correction. Logged on this page. A “material” correction is anything that changes a number, a name, a date, an attribution, a claim of fact, or the conclusion a reader would draw from the piece. The entry includes: the date of the correction, the issue and section corrected, the original text, the corrected text, and the primary source that triggered the change.

When a material correction overturns a statistic that has been used in any active outreach email or social post, the publication's production pipeline flags those assets for revision and they are not sent again until the copy reflects the correction. That rule is part of the publication's governance and is documented in the masthead.

How to send a correction

Email joseph@ownthebid.com with the subject line “Correction”. Include a link to the piece, the sentence in question, and the primary source you would like the editor to read. Replies usually arrive inside one business day. The editor reads every one.

The log

No material corrections published yet. The first issue ships pre-launch; entries appear here as warranted. An empty log is not a claim of perfection. It means nothing has crossed the material threshold yet, and the reader is welcome to flag anything that should.