Opinion
Editorial: a newspaper should tell you when it gets things wrong
Why Pressio publishes every correction, however small, and what we learned from counting them.
Editor-in-chief
4 min read
Every correction we publish is listed on our Corrections page.
Last year, Pressio published 212 corrections. Most were small: a misspelled name, a wrong date, a figure rounded in the wrong direction. A few were serious.
We publish every one of them, and we think every newsroom should.
Why it matters
Trust is not built by never making mistakes. It is built by admitting them quickly and fixing them openly.
A correction is not an embarrassment. It is proof that someone was paying attention.
What we learned
Counting our corrections showed us where errors cluster: late-night edits, numbers and names. We now double-check all three before publication. If you spot a mistake, tell us. We will fix it and say so.
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Clara Lindqvist
Editor-in-chief
Clara has led Pressio since its founding in 2019. Before that she edited the foreign desk of a Nordic daily for a decade.
