As part of "a $1 million project to improve the credibility of newspapers and journalism," the American Society of Newspaper Editors commissioned a poll of 3,000 Americans in April and May of 1998.
A story on Times editors hashing out the next morning's front page talks of "11 men and 7 women with the power to decide what was important in the world."
Five weeks after the New York Times was notified about a major error in its reporting on abortions in El Salvador, the newspaper finally ran a correction on Sunday.
