In August, Sherry and I wrote about a new name-verification policy The Eagle put in place. (You can read the posts here and here.) That month, misspelled names were 35 percent of our corrections.
With the new policy in place, the percentage of corrections from misspelled names has plummeted. In September it was 9 percent (two corrections); in October it was 4 percent (one correction).
While even one misspelled name is too many, I’m heartened by the numbers.
— Michael