Guides

Plain-language guides to how news changes after publication: how to check for edits, what counts as a stealth edit, and how corrections are supposed to work.

• How to tell if a news article was edited

  Six practical ways to check whether a news story was changed after publication: update times, correction notes, hidden modified dates, web archives and shared headlines.

• What is a stealth edit?

  A stealth edit is a meaningful change to a published news story made without telling readers. What counts, what doesn't, and why it matters.

• How news corrections work

  Corrections, clarifications, updates and editor's notes explained, plus where to find them and how to ask a newsroom to fix an error.