Fred Katz NBA journalist

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Corrections and Update Policy

This policy covers factual information, metadata, annotations, and links maintained on this site. Reviewable issues include incorrect dates, outlet attribution, role wording, duplicate records, broken links, and outdated book or podcast information.

Article links, appearance dates, professional information, podcast details, and book status require human review. Automated imports can create duplicate, stale, incorrectly attributed, or misleading records, so they are not treated as final editorial decisions.

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What this site can review and correct

A correction or routine update may be considered for the following local information:

  • Factual metadata: dates, outlets, topics, formats, canonical source URLs, and publication or appearance details.
  • Links and access notices: broken or redirected external links and notices that no longer describe likely access conditions accurately. Article access can vary by location, subscription, promotion, or publisher policy.
  • Archive records: duplicate, stale, or incorrectly attributed entries, including records associated with the wrong person.
  • Identity information: confusion between Fred Katz, the NBA journalist, and the jazz cellist and composer who shares the name. See the Fred Katz identity clarification.
  • Professional information: approved changes to role wording or biographical details. Current sources use both “Senior NBA Writer” and “National NBA Reporter,” so definitive wording requires confirmation rather than assumption.
  • Book information: time-sensitive publication status, formats, synopsis, cover information, availability, events, and other details that should be checked against Simon & Schuster. The current local bibliographic record is available on the Under the Bright Lights publication details page.
  • Podcast information: local summaries of Patreon-controlled prices, tiers, publishing frequency, benefits, and access rules when those terms change.

Factual corrections are distinct from stylistic preferences. A request to change accurately attributed reporting, commentary, or editorial framing is not necessarily a factual correction.

To prepare: identify the affected category and gather an authoritative source supporting the requested change.

External articles, podcasts, interviews, and retailer information

This site can update its own annotations, metadata, access notices, and destination links. It cannot alter material hosted or controlled by an external publisher, platform, broadcaster, or retailer.

Linked reporting remains under the control of its original publisher. Article text, headlines, photography, graphics, audio, video, and access rules may also be controlled by that publisher. For an error within an external article or media item, contact the outlet that published or hosts it.

Patreon is the source of truth for current Katz and Shoot membership prices, tiers, benefits, publishing frequency, and episode access. Read how Katz and Shoot access works for the distinction between local summaries and Patreon-controlled terms.

Simon & Schuster is the authoritative source for current Under the Bright Lights metadata. Retailers separately control their prices, stock, delivery estimates, and product pages.

The local record may still be revised when reliable evidence shows that its summary, attribution, access notice, or link is inaccurate. For more context, read the article access and external link guide.

Information needed for a correction request

When an authorized correction channel becomes available, an effective request should include:

  • The URL or exact title of the local page containing the issue.
  • A precise description of the information believed to be inaccurate or outdated.
  • The proposed factual correction.
  • A link to an authoritative supporting source, such as the original publisher, creator platform, or media outlet.
  • An optional explanation of urgency, such as an imminent public event or a broken primary link.

Relevant authoritative sources may include Simon & Schuster, the Katz and Shoot Patreon, and verified media-outlet pages. Aggregators or third-party databases may be useful for discovery, but they do not automatically override a primary source.

Do not send account credentials, unnecessary personal contact details, unpublished documents, or copyrighted files unless an authorized secure process specifically requests them. No verified public personal email address, phone number, postal address, booking agent, or speaking representative has been established for use as a correction channel.

Prepare these four essentials: the affected page, the specific issue, the proposed correction, and an authoritative supporting source.

How an issue should be reviewed

  1. Intake

    The report is recorded with the affected page, issue description, proposed correction, and supporting source.

  2. Verification

    The claim is compared with authoritative publisher, platform, media-outlet, or otherwise reliable records. Clarification or additional evidence may be requested.

  3. Editorial review

    A human reviewer determines whether the issue is a routine maintenance task, a material factual correction, or a request unsupported by the available evidence. Changes are not made through an unattended automated process.

  4. Publication

    If a change is supported, the local record is updated. A report does not guarantee a change when the existing information remains supported by reliable sources.

  5. Record maintenance

    Maintenance-sensitive records should retain a reviewed or updated date, particularly when they concern professional roles, book status, podcast terms, external access, or destination links.

No fixed response or resolution time is promised. After an issue has been evaluated, consult the affected page’s reviewed date and any applicable correction note.

Material corrections and routine updates

Routine maintenance

Broken-link repairs, formatting fixes, removal of duplicate records, and regularly refreshed status fields may be handled as routine maintenance when the meaning of the record does not change.

Potentially material corrections

Changes involving identity, dates, attribution, role descriptions, quotations, or substantive summaries may be material because they alter how a person, publication, or event is represented.

If an editorial correction-note convention is approved, a material change should carry a dated note describing what was corrected. The original article publication date, appearance date, or event date should remain separate from the date on which the local record was reviewed or updated.

A public correction log is not currently represented as available. Visitors should check the reviewed date or any correction note attached directly to the affected local record.

Correction submission status

Direct correction submissions are not yet enabled. A public submission route should be added only after an authorized recipient, privacy notice, retention rule, response workflow, and spam controls are established.

No guessed email address, personal phone number, scraped contact information, or third-party database record should be used to submit an issue. Until an approved channel is available, consult the relevant original publisher or platform when the requested change concerns content hosted there.

Before any future form is used, review the privacy notice for submission data. Accessibility barriers should be handled through the process described in the accessibility statement, rather than treated only as editorial corrections.

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