Verfasser:	Alma
Datum:	Dienstag, den 7. April 2009, um 6:19 Uhr
Betrifft:	Apostel oder...?

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Daily Universe caption error corrected, explained
By Matthew Deighton and Abram Jones - 6 Apr 2009

The Daily Universe took the extraordinary step Monday of re-calling all its 18,500 copies from newsstands around campus and the community to reprint the entire 14-page issue due to a typographical error on the front page.

A spelling error appeared in a photo caption in which the word “apostle” was rendered as “apostate.” In referring to activities at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last weekend, the caption read in part, “Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote. . . .”

Once the mistake was noticed, all available copies of the newspaper were removed from the racks and replaced with a sign directing students to view the paper online, said Brad Rawlins, chair of the Department of Communications.

“We are reprinting the paper and we will have the corrected version back on the racks by mid-afternoon,” Rawlins said. “This shows the deep concern we have on the matter. We don’t think this error is glib or cute or humorous. We understand people will take offense to the error. We ourselves are offended as a department for this error. We have a deep regret that it appeared in today’s paper.”

Daryl Gibson, director of NewsNet IT, said this is the first time the paper has been pulled because of a news error in his more than 30 years of working at BYU.

The misspelling was an unintentional error, said Rich Evans, editorial manager for The Daily Universe.

“Our copy editor in charge of the front page, who was under deadline pressure, was using spell check on her page and had misspelled the word apostle,” Evans said. “One of the first options that came up on InDesign’s spell check suggestions was the word apostate. Unfortunately that’s the one she clicked on. It still should have been caught by two more levels of review after that, but again with deadline looming, the worst possible thing happened.”

In interviews Monday morning, staff at The Daily Universe explained the editorial process in which the error occurred. A student photographer who was at General Conference in Salt Lake City wrote a caption to be used with a photo-graph of several members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The photo was then placed into the newspaper layout — accomplished in a software program called Adobe InDesign — by a student copy editor who reviewed the information along with the rest of the paper. The caption was then reviewed again by a professional staff proofreader who checks for additional mistakes. This process is often compressed into a short time due to deadline.

“There’s a million different things that the copy editor has to look for, including headlines, captions, spelling of people’s names, making sure pictures are up to the Honor Code standards and so on,” said Joshua Flake, student news editor of The Daily Universe. “Unless the photographer needs help, the reporters rarely see the caption.”

Students on campus who picked up a copy of The Daily Universe before it was removed from news racks at about 10 a.m. expressed disappointment at the error.

“I think people need to proofread better,” said Elizabeth Kent, a pre-business management major from Malad, Idaho. “But I don’t know how many people will notice.”

Other students were confused when they saw people taking all the newspapers off the racks. Marcie Anderson, a psychology major, thought at first that the person removing the newspapers needed them to line a cage for a pet at home. “My first thought was, ‘How many birds does she have?’” Anderson said.

When she found out why all the papers were tossed, Anderson said it was a stupid mistake that illustrated a bigger problem.

“I have always thought the editing in this paper was a little sloppy,” she said.

But Anderson thinks this problem doesn’t just reflect negatively on the newspaper.

“This is a sad commentary on a school that has high values and standards, reflected on something so simple that could be misconstrued,” she said.

Hillary Miller, a media arts major from Arcadia, Calif., was concerned about the situation. “I hope someone isn’t just fooling around,” she said. “It would be sad if someone was trying to do harm to our church.”

Regardless of how this situation happened, Miller said it is upsetting.

According to a formal statement by the Department of Communications, there was no malicious intent.

Carri Jenkins, director of University Communications and assistant to the president, commended the Department of Communications for its quick action.

“It appears this was an honest mistake,” Jenkins said. “The fact that The Daily Universe staff and the Communications Department have acted so quickly shows their concern and the seriousness with which they regard this error.”

Jenkins said President Samuelson was aware of the mistake early Monday morning and that any time a mistake is made it is a concern. But mistakes can teach us, Jenkins said.

Administrators in the Department of Communications said they were interviewing students and staff Monday to determine how the error happened. Apparently a student copy editor used InDesign’s spell check function to check all the photo captions. The student told Evans that InDesign suggested the misspelled word and the student failed to catch the error.

“Clearly this is an unacceptable mistake, and we’ll be spending a great deal of time with our students over the next several weeks to carefully examine our review processes,” Department of Communications administrators said in a formal statement.

In the statement, the department also said it quickly corrected the copy in the online version of the paper.

“The Daily Universe is a student laboratory, and, while this fact does not excuse the errors of this magnitude, it does mean that we go through a continuous learning and improvement process in order to enhance the quality of what we do,” the statement said. “We will of course take whatever steps are necessary to improve that process going forward.”

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