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...Crimson must prevent these incidents from happening in the first place. According to Managing Editor Valerie J. MacMillan '98, The Crimson works hard to impress upon new reporters the importance of taking quotations very seriously. At the first meeting for those comping The Crimson, writers are told the importance of being exact when they use quotation marks. But because many Crimson reporters are young and new to news writing, mistakes are sometimes inevitable...
According to MacMillan, though most complaints about being misquoted are often reasonable, others come from people who regret their words. For this reason, The Crimson investigates all claims of misquotation. Though Crimson reporters do not tape record interviews, except for those with senior administration officials, the reporter's notes will often reveal the error...
...read or e-mail his quotations back to him. Though The Crimson will not send someone the full text of a story to comment on before publication, a reporter will check a person's quotations if asked. "They should be 100 percent happy to do that," said MacMillan...
...Georgia N. Alexakis, Courtney A. Coursey, David A. Fahrenthold, Matthew W. Granade, Ayanna A. Lonian, William P. Moynahan, Valerie J. MacMillan, Andrew K. Mandel, Amber L. Ramage, Joshua H. Simon, Baratunde R. Thurston, Kelly M. Yamanouchi and Elizabeth S. Zuckerman contributed to the reporting of this story...
Valerie J. MacMillan's column appears on alternate Thursdays...