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NY Times issues correction after calling Politico a ‘biweekly newsletter’

Vince Coglianese Editorial Director
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The New York Times corrected an article Sunday that originally referred to Politico as a “biweekly newsletter.”

The characterization appeared in the Times’ “Sunday Book Review” of “Double Down,” a book on the 2012 presidential campaigns by writers Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.

That review was published on Nov. 10.

On Sunday — nearly a month later — the Times issued the following correction:

Correction: December 1, 2013

A review on Nov. 10 about “Double Down,” an account of the 2012 presidential campaign by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, referred incorrectly to the printed edition of Politico. It is a newspaper about politics that is published five times weekly when Congress is in session; it is not a “biweekly newsletter.”

Politico, based in suburban Virginia, employs over 280 people who make up both a website and a quint-weekly free newspaper distributed on Capitol Hill.

Reached for comment, a spokeswoman for Politico did not immediately indicate whether Politico sought the Times’ correction.

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