No newsroom is immune from error. What separates a publication you can trust from one you cannot is not whether it makes mistakes — it is what it does when it finds one.
This page is where you tell us we got something wrong, and where we account for it when we did.
Our full standards on accuracy, sourcing, and corrections are set out in our Editorial Policy. This page is the practical side of that policy: how to reach us, what we will do, and what you can expect back.
Report an error
Email [email protected] with “Correction” in the subject line, or use our Contact page.
To help us deal with it quickly, please include:
- The link or the exact headline of the article in question.
- The specific passage you believe is wrong — a quoted sentence is ideal.
- What the correct information is, as you understand it.
- Anything that supports it — a source, a document, a record, a link. This is not a requirement, and we will look into a report without it, but it usually makes the difference between a correction we can confirm today and one that takes a week.
You do not need a reason to ask, and you do not need to be the subject of the article. If something looks wrong to you, tell us.
What happens next
We review every request we receive, and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
Responding within 48 hours means we will have read it and told you where it stands. It does not always mean the matter is settled by then — if a claim needs checking against a source we have to go and find, confirming it honestly takes longer than replying quickly. We would rather take the time to get it right than issue a fast correction that is also wrong.
Once we have checked it, one of three things happens. Our Editorial Policy defines these terms, and we use them precisely rather than interchangeably:
- A correction — we got a fact wrong, and we fix it. Where the error is significant, we note on the article what was changed, rather than editing it silently.
- An update — the article was accurate when published, but the situation has moved on and we are bringing it current.
- A clarification — nothing we wrote was strictly inaccurate, but the wording could reasonably be misread, so we sharpen it.
If we conclude that the article was right, we will tell you that too, and tell you why. Disagreeing with our conclusion is not the same as our being wrong, and we will not pretend otherwise to close a conversation.
Articles from our archive
News World Inside has been publishing since 2011, and a large part of what is on this site is older work. Please see Our Archive for how we treat it.
In short: an old article is a record of what was reported at the time, not a claim about how things stand today. Our Disclaimer sets this out — articles reflect the information available at the time of publication and may not have been updated since.
That does not put the archive beyond correction. If an archive article was factually wrong when we published it, we will correct it on the same terms as anything else. If it was accurate then but has simply been overtaken by events, that is not an error, and the fix is a dated update or a note rather than a rewrite — we do not quietly edit old articles to make our past reporting look better than it was.
If you are the subject of an article
If we have written about you and something in the piece is inaccurate, use the same route above and say that you are the subject. We would rather hear from you directly than have an error about a real person stand because nobody told us.
Requests to remove an article, as opposed to correct it, are a separate matter and we consider them case by case — accuracy and removal are different questions. Copyright complaints have their own process, set out on our DMCA / Copyright Policy page.
Published corrections
Significant corrections are noted on the article they affect. We will also list them here, most recent first, so that our record is visible in one place rather than scattered across the site.
This list begins from the date this page goes live. An empty list means nothing has been logged here yet — it is not a claim that no correction has ever been issued in this site’s history.
Why we publish this page
Corrections are usually treated as something to be buried. We think that is the wrong instinct. A publication that never appears to correct anything is not a publication that never gets anything wrong — it is one that is not telling you when it does.
We would rather earn your trust slowly, by being straight with you about our mistakes, than protect a record that was never really clean. If we fall short of the standards in our Editorial Policy, we want to hear about it so we can put it right.