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An article Wednesday about a talk that Medill School of Journalism Dean John Lavine gave to alumni contained an error. Lavine — who spoke about the controversy over his use of an anonymous student quote in a piece he wrote for an alumni magazine — was incorrectly quoted about what he said he should have done instead. The accurate quote is: “I should have immediately said, ‘Oh, wait a minute, we never not name somebody; don’t quote a student and say ‘a student said quote.’ Don’t do that … .’ ” A paraphrase also was in error. The dean was referring to the changing journalism industry, not his mistake, when he said, “This is part of something that will be with us for the rest of our lives.”
