Corrections and clarifications

Our commitment

The East New York Times is reported by people, and people get things wrong. What separates a trustworthy publication from an untrustworthy one is not the absence of errors — it is what happens after one.

When we get something wrong, we correct it promptly, we say plainly what was wrong, and we leave a permanent record on the story itself. We do not delete a story to make a mistake disappear, and we do not quietly edit an error out and pretend it was never there.

How to report an error

Email info@eastnewyorktimes.com with Correction in the subject line. That subject line moves your message to the front of the queue.

It helps if you can include:

• A link to the story, or its headline and date
• The specific sentence, number, name, date or quote you believe is wrong
• What the correct information is
• Anything that supports it — a document, a record, a link, or simply your firsthand knowledge

You do not need to be the subject of a story to report an error, you do not need documents to raise a concern, and you do not need to be certain. Tell us and we will check it.

If you are the subject of a story and believe it is unfair rather than factually wrong, write to us as well. That is a different conversation than a correction, and we want to have it. A response from you may become a letter to the editor.

What we do when you tell us

1. We acknowledge you. You get a reply from a person, normally within two business days.
2. We check it. We return to the original sourcing — the transcript, the record, the document, the person we interviewed — rather than relying on memory.
3. We fix it fast when we are wrong. A clear factual error is corrected as soon as we have confirmed it, typically the same day.
4. We label the fix on the story. The correction appears on the article itself, dated, describing what was wrong and what it now says. It is not hidden at the bottom in small type and it is not removed later.
5. We tell you what we found. If we conclude the original reporting was accurate, we explain our reasoning rather than going silent.
6. We fix it everywhere. If the error also went out in our newsletter, on social media or in a video, we correct it on those platforms too.

Corrections, clarifications and updates

We use three labels, and we use them consistently so readers know exactly what changed.

Correction

We published something factually wrong — a wrong name, title, number, date, location, or a misattributed quote. The label states the error and the fix. Example: Correction, August 19, 2026: An earlier version of this story misstated the number of residents hired. It is 13, not 30.

Clarification

What we published was accurate but could reasonably be misread, or was missing context that changes how a reader understands it. We add the context and label it.

Update

Nothing was wrong. The story developed — a vote happened, an agency responded, a number changed. We add the new information with a dated update note, and we do not re-timestamp an old story to make it look new.

Fixing a typo or a broken link does not get a public note. Anything that changes a fact, a number, a name or the meaning of a sentence does.

We do not unpublish

Published journalism is a public record. We do not remove a story because a subject later regrets what they said, dislikes the coverage, or asks us to take it down.

We make narrow exceptions in rare circumstances — for example, when leaving material online would put someone at genuine risk of harm, or when a court requires removal. In those cases we will normally note that a change was made. Requests are decided by the editor and we will explain our decision to the person who asked.

Published corrections

Corrections are always posted on the story they belong to. Substantive corrections are also listed here so readers can see our full record in one place.