Hannah Lewis
Standards Editor
Hannah Lewis is the Standards Editor at The Taiwan Times, leading fact-checking, corrections and source attribution — the final gate every report passes through before publication.
She checks figures, dates, titles and quotes one by one, tracing every claim back to its original source and letting nothing unverified slip through. When mistakes happen, she leads an open, clearly-labelled corrections process.
She believes owning up to errors and fixing them quickly is not a weakness but precisely how a news outlet earns lasting trust.
Areas of expertise
- Fact-checking
- Corrections
- Sourcing
Latest by Hannah Lewis
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