Dow Jones has outlawed spell-checking; evidently too many interview subject and company names got mangled back into English. We wanna know what the hell happened — did "NASDAQ" get spell-checked to "nutsack" or something?

Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:30 AM
To: xxx
Subject: Note from Neal Lipschutz, Senior Editor, Americas

Colleagues,

We have had too many incidents where the use of the spell-check program
within our editorial production system (news station) led to our
publication of errors on Dow Jones Newswires. Most typically, this has
involved the inadvertent changing, based on a spell-check suggestion, of
a proper name of a person or company into a non-related word. For this
reason, spell-check should no longer be used by reporters or editors in
the Americas when writing or editing for publication on Newswires.

As long as we are on the topic of errors, I want to reiterate
long-standing policy. Anyone who receives a claim that something we
published is in error must treat that claim with the utmost seriousness
and speed. A supervisory editor should be quickly involved in the matter
and the claim needs to be looked into as soon as possible. Of course, if
we are in error, we want to publish a correction as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance for your help in these important matters.

Regards,
Neal Lipschutz
Senior Editor, Americas