Our job as a news organization is to tell the truth, give readers facts, and explain and reveal aspects of the communities we cover—not reflect society’s shortcomings. We have a responsibility to not only deliver meaningful information, but own up when we make a mistake.

We made a mistake with our headline and story on former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell’s eulogy of U.S. Rep. John Lewis. (“How a Disbarred Lawyer Came to Deliver a Dying Hero’s Final Plea”)