Craig Silverman on Regret the Error offers two stories about danger lurking in a publication's archive and trapping an unwary reporter years later. In one case, a reporter writing a blog post reused material from a story he'd written 30 years earlier — only to find afterward that he'd misspelled a source's name. Silverman cites the resulting correction and offers three tips for reporters who want to stay out of trouble when mining their own clips or anybody else's.
January 10, 2012