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Who wouldnât want to get a âfresh start?â
Our life record has always been on display in some fashion â if someone had the time and skills to pore through official files in the county courthouse or newspaper archives.
The digital era has made more information about more people available more easily than ever before. A recent search for âhow easy is it to search a personâs history?â turned up 114 million hits on how to find criminal histories, financial information and any mention in the news.
Thereâs an undeniable lure to the idea of erasing from public view an embarrassing moment, a long-ago minor crime or a past accusation later dropped or cleared.
Right to be Forgotten policy discussed on panel held by News Leaders Association and Reynolds Journalism Institute Cameron Fields, cleveland.com, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio The journalism industry’s movement of helping people move on from past mistakes is growing, with more newsrooms deciding to adopt policies where they unpublish or tweak stories from the past that are negatively affecting people’s lives in the present.
Cleveland.com remains a national leader in this movement, and editor Chris Quinn joined a virtual panel of news leaders Friday to discuss unpublishing and cleveland.com’s Right to be Forgotten policy.
The panel was hosted by the News Leaders Association and the Reynolds Journalism Institute, and Quinn spoke alongside Margaret Holt of The Chicago Tribune, Greg Lee Jr. of The Boston Globe and Alison Gerber of The Chattanooga Times Free Press. Deborah Dwyer, a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, moderated the event.