Corrections are appreciated

Good reporters appreciate when they’re corrected.

I know that most of the time I’m kind of snarky, but I really am serious this time. Like everyone and like any job, we make mistakes. But I would much, much, much rather fix a mistake than let it hang there, looking like some kind of festering wound. Sick.

So even though I hate to be wrong, I was so grateful to three readers who emailed me this morning to tell me that I wasn’t right. I wrote a story that ran in the paper today about the sale of two elementary schools in the Midwest City-Del City School District. In the story, I said that Sooner Rose Elementary was built in 1966. It was, in fact, built in 1949. I’m honestly not sure how this mistake happened; those years aren’t even close. Nevertheless, a correction will run in the newspaper tomorrow. And I wouldn’t have know there was a problem if it wasn’t for these three emails:

by Carrie Coppernoll

Reporter/ Columnist

Carrie Coppernoll is a columnist and reporter. She was named the top personal columnist in Oklahoma in 2009 and 2010 by the Associated Press and Association of Newspaper Editors. She was also named the 2008 Journalist of the Year by the Oklahoma...

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