Saturday, 16 January 2010

When should editors "unpublish" online news reports?

Kathy English, the public editor of the Toronto Star, has written a policy guide on when to erase a story from the Internet.

There is a strong reluctance by journalists to remove published content from websites. As one editor said, “Unpublishing is a word that doesn’t accurately reflect what people are asking. They’re asking us to censor or rewrite history.”