Corrections Policy
The principle
A news site that never admits error is not accurate; it is merely unaccountable. STUDIO ONE NETWORKS treats corrections as part of publishing, not as a humiliation to be avoided. When we get a fact wrong, the record gets fixed, the fix gets labeled, and readers get to see both, because the alternative, quiet rewriting, destroys the only thing a news site has to sell, which is trust.
Updates are not corrections
Breaking news evolves, and it is important to distinguish two different things. An update is new information added to a developing story: a revised casualty count from officials, a company response arriving after publication, a score changing because the game continued. A correction is a fix to something that was wrong when we published it. Both are labeled, but differently, because they mean different things about our work. An update means the world moved; a correction means we erred.
How updates are handled
When a developing story changes materially, we revise the article and mark it as updated, with significant additions noted in the text so a reader can see what is new. We do not silently rewrite a story into a different story: if events have shifted so far that the original framing no longer holds, the article says so explicitly. Timestamps on articles reflect the latest revision, and in fast-moving coverage we would rather add a clearly dated new line than blend new facts invisibly into old prose.
How corrections are handled
When we confirm a factual error, we correct the text promptly and append a labeled correction note stating what was wrong and what the correct information is. The note stays on the article permanently. For minor errors that do not affect meaning, such as a typo or a misspelled place name that could not mislead anyone, we fix the text without a formal note; the threshold is simple: could the error have misled a reader about a fact? If yes, it gets a note.
For serious errors, ones central to a story’s premise, we go further: the correction is placed at the top of the article rather than the bottom, and if a story was wrong at its core, we say so plainly rather than salvaging it with cosmetic edits. In the rare case where a story should not have been published at all, it is replaced with an explanation, not silently deleted, because a vanished URL is its own kind of dishonesty.
Headlines and social posts
Corrections apply to everything we publish, not just article bodies. If a headline overstated a story, the headline is corrected even if the body was accurate. If we shared an erroneous claim on social platforms, we post the correction there too, on the same channel that carried the error, because a correction that reaches a different audience than the mistake did is only half a correction.
Images and captions are covered by the same rules. A photograph presented as showing one event that in fact shows another is a factual error, and its correction is noted like any other. Where an image itself was the problem, the correction note says what was replaced and why, so the fix is as visible as the mistake was.
How to request a correction
Email support@studioonenetworks.com with Correction in the subject line. Include the article link, the specific claim you dispute, and whatever evidence you have; a pointer to a primary source is worth more than a strong opinion. Correction requests are our highest-priority mail and are typically reviewed within one business day. You will get an answer either way: what we changed, or why we believe the story is right, with our sourcing. Disagreeing with our framing or emphasis is feedback, which we also read, but the corrections process is for facts.
Old stories
Corrections have no expiry date. If an error is discovered in a story from years ago, it is corrected with the same labeling as an error discovered in an hour-old story, because archives get read and cited. We do not, however, rewrite old stories to reflect later events; a story is a record of what was known at its date, and its datestamp is the context. Where an old story is significantly superseded, we may add a note pointing readers to newer coverage. Requests to remove accurate reporting about oneself are not corrections and are generally declined; where a genuine legal right applies, such requests are handled under our Privacy Policy.
Accountability
The editorial team reviews corrections to find patterns: a recurring type of error means a process is broken, and processes get fixed, as reflected in our Editorial Standards and Fact-Checking Policy. Readers who report errors are doing us a service, and are treated that way.
