Improving accuracy

After reading this article, I decided to create a checklist to improve the accuracy of my posts. I'm also working with newsroom management to establish corrections standards. More on this later.

And later:
Here's the checklist for all posts:

Read source material
Write piece
write head
write abstract
spell check
cut and paste piece into cms
preview piece
check photograph
post

The checklist for updates to existing posts:
Copy post into word doc
read piece
edit piece
read piece
change head
change abstract
spell check
re post
check photo
preview
post

While checklists may be no kind of fun, a point was made in the poynter.org article cited above: Pilots have checklists. And if it's OK for pilots to rely on checklists, the work of whom infinitely more lives depend on, then it's not a shortcut for journalists to use them as well.