Daily News Blend corrects factual errors promptly, visibly and without quietly rewriting history. This page explains what counts as a correction, how to request one, how the newsroom reviews it, and how confirmed changes are shown to readers.
A correction addresses a factual error: a wrong name, date, figure, title, quote, identification or material background fact. A clarification addresses wording that was technically accurate but likely to mislead. An update adds new, verified information to a developing story. These are different things, and we label them differently so readers can see what changed and why.
To request a correction, use the Contact page. Name the story, identify the passage you believe is wrong and, where possible, point to the authoritative record: an official document, a public dataset, a court or regulator filing, a peer-reviewed study or reputable reporting. "That is wrong" without a source is harder to act on, but we still review it against our own source material. Anonymous requests are considered where the underlying record can be checked independently.
When a request arrives, the desk responsible for the story reviews the claim against the sources used at publication and any new authoritative material. If the error is confirmed, we fix it. For material errors, meaning errors that change the meaning of a story or a significant figure or identification within it, we add a correction note to the story stating what was changed. For minor typographical errors that do not affect meaning, we fix the text without a formal note, as most news organisations do.
We do not delete published stories simply because they have become inconvenient, and we do not alter quotes, figures or conclusions at the request of a subject, advertiser or partner without an editorial basis. If a story is found to be fundamentally flawed, the responsible desk and the publisher decide whether it should be corrected, updated with a prominent note, or, in the rare case of a story that should not have been published, removed with an explanation. Legal requests are reviewed against applicable law and our editorial standards.
Developing stories are updated as verified information arrives. Updates may revise early figures attributed to officials, add confirmed outcomes, or replace preliminary claims with established facts. Where an early report, published in good faith from an official source, turns out to be wrong, we correct it and note the change rather than leaving the early version standing.
Readers can also use the Contact page for clarifications about our methods: how a story was sourced, why a desk byline is used, or how an image was licensed. Daily News Blend is published by 24World Media, 1411 N Sterling Ave, Palatine, IL 60067. Newsroom desks operate under the standards on the Code of Ethics page, and corrections are one of the ways those standards are enforced in public.
We keep a simple promise: if we get something wrong, we will put it right, and where the mistake mattered, we will say so on the story itself.
How long review takes
Straightforward requests, such as a misspelled name supported by an official record, can often be resolved the same day. Requests that require re-checking a dataset, contacting an institution or reviewing a study may take longer, and we would rather take the time than issue a second correction to the first. If a request raises a legal issue, it is referred to the publisher. While a request is under review, the story may carry no visible change, because changing a story before the facts are established would replace one risk with another.
Record of this policy
This page is the operative statement of how Daily News Blend handles errors. Desks are expected to know it, readers are invited to use it, and the publisher reviews significant corrections to see whether a process failure, rather than a simple mistake, caused the error. Where a pattern emerges, the remedy is a change in practice, not only a change in one story.
