[Editors] Question re: corrections in electronic publications

[Sara M. Egan]

Greetings,

I'm looking for practices or recommendations for correcting 
attribution in an article we published in our electronically-deployed 
and online-posted ILP Edition of MIT Technology Insider.

We just received a letter from a former graduate student who is irate 
that a faculty member did not credit him for his (?their?) research 
which was discussed in the article. The student is requesting that 
the faculty publicly "retract" the interview, and is threatening 
legal action.

We are, of course, checking this out with the faculty member, etc. 
I'm just curious about how others may have handled a similar 
situation and what the style protocol might be.

Thanks,
sara
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Sara M. Egan
Senior Information/Research Analyst
Associate Editor, ILP Edition of MIT Technology Insider
Office of Corporate Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
292 Main Street, E38-500
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617.258.5544
Fax:  617.258.0796
Email: sarae at mit.edu
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