Corrections Policy
The premise
A newsroom that publishes around the clock will publish errors. The measure of a news site is not a claim to infallibility, which would itself be the first falsehood, but what happens in the hours after a mistake is found. This page is the exact procedure MYWORLDNEWS24 follows, written down so readers can hold us to it.
One distinction runs through everything below, and it matters more on a 24-hour news site than anywhere else: the difference between an error and a development. An error is something that was wrong when we published it: a misspelled name, a wrong figure, a claim our sources did not support. A development is something that was accurate when published and has since been overtaken: a death toll revised upward, a suspect released, a deal that collapsed. Errors get corrections. Developments get updates. Both get labeled, but the label tells you which one you are looking at, because “we were wrong” and “the world moved” are different confessions.
How errors reach us and what happens next
Errors surface three ways: an editor spots one, a source or subject of a story writes in, or a reader emails support@myworldnews24.com with CORRECTION in the subject line. Reader mail is the channel we depend on most and value most; a global readership collectively knows more than any desk.
When a credible report of an error arrives, an editor who was not the primary author of the piece checks the disputed point against the original sources. Then one of three things happens:
- The report is right. We correct the text immediately and append a correction note. For anything beyond trivial fixes, the note says what was wrong and what the story now says. Clock time matters: factual errors in live or recent stories are typically fixed within hours of confirmation.
- The report is wrong. We reply, where the reporter of the error left an address, explaining what our sourcing shows. Being told we checked and stand by the line is an answer too, and you are owed it.
- It is genuinely unclear. We say so in the story: the disputed figure gets attributed more tightly or flagged as contested until it can be resolved.
How corrections are labeled
- Minor fixes, such as typos and grammar slips that change no meaning, are made silently. Pretending a fixed typo deserves a formal notice would bury the notices that matter.
- Factual corrections get a visible note on the article stating the date and the substance: what was wrong, what is right. The wrong fact does not simply vanish, because readers who saw the first version deserve to know it was wrong.
- Significant corrections, where the error affected the point of the story, are placed prominently rather than buried at the foot, and if the story’s headline carried the error, the headline is corrected too.
- Retractions are the last resort, for stories whose core was wrong. We do not quietly delete them. The URL keeps a retraction notice explaining what we published, why it failed our standards, and what we know now. Deleting a retracted story only feeds the suspicion that we hide our failures.
How updates on developing stories are labeled
Breaking coverage is revised as facts arrive, and every substantive revision carries an updated timestamp. While a story is moving we mark it as developing, and early figures are attributed to their sources precisely so that later revisions are traceable: “at least 12, according to the provincial governor” can be superseded honestly; a bare “12” cannot. When the dust settles, a final update consolidates the story. What we never do is rewrite an article’s history to make our early coverage look more prescient than it was.
Names, headlines and the wrongs that hurt
Errors involving people, a wrong name, a wrong photograph, a misattributed quote, an incorrect allegation, jump the queue ahead of everything else, because they injure someone every hour they stand. If we have wronged you personally in a story, say so in your mail; it is read with priority, and where fairness requires it you will get not just a correction but the offer of a response in the piece.
What we will not do
We do not un-publish accurate reporting because its subject finds it inconvenient, and we do not accept payment, ever, to alter or remove a story; both would convert corrections from an accuracy mechanism into a market. Requests of that kind receive a polite explanation and a link to this page. Where a genuine privacy or safety concern is raised about accurate content, editors weigh it case by case against the public interest, and we are willing to explain our reasoning to the person affected.
Accountability
Corrections are reviewed by the editorial team as a pattern, not just as incidents: a recurring class of error means a rule or a habit needs changing, and our internal checklist gets amended. This policy works alongside our Fact-Checking Policy, which exists to make this page needed as rarely as possible, and our Editorial Standards. To report an error in anything published on myworldnews24.com: support@myworldnews24.com, subject CORRECTION, with the article link and the disputed sentence quoted.
