Meanwhile, an Associate Journalism Professor at the University of Kings College says the newspaper apology will help vindicate the reporters who wrote the original story. Kelly Toughill tells CHSJ news it’s hard to imagine how the inaccurate changes happened without their knowledge.
Toughill also says the apology still leaves a number of questions unanswered–such as how the changes to the original story came about during the editorial process–and–why the reporters weren’t notified before the story was published.