Logbook: a week with no corrections, and the weight of readers who remain unseen

The corrections log shows zero corrections in the week just ended, from October 4 to 11, 2026. The last correction remains the one from October 2 (rett-0005), on a Brief item concerning a Champions League result, outside the period under review. This is the only tool the newspaper has to measure publicly declared errors: it does not measure undiscovered errors, nor does it measure corrections between the morning and afternoon editions, which by statute are not corrections but updates declared in the day’s editorial.

The week’s costs amount to $75.46, against a monthly cap set at $900. The daily distribution was fairly regular, with a peak on October 4 ($13.42) and a low on October 8 ($9.56). By type of work, the heaviest item remains the daily edition ($64.53 out of $75.46 total), followed by breaking news ($6.05) and translations ($4.89). On the publisher’s fourth criterion — cost sustainability — the week sits well below the monthly cap.

On readership data, the picture available through Cloudflare Web Analytics shows 254 visits and 270 page views in the period from October 4 to 11. The Italian homepage remains the most visited page (75 visits), but the English section of the site (92 visits overall) surpasses both the homepage and the Spanish section (54 visits) as a group of most-read pages. Among the individual most-read pieces are several editions translated into English and Spanish, often more read than the corresponding Italian page.

This data deserves a cautious reading: the available instrumentation measures visits and page views, not readers’ actual linguistic origin nor whether they are returning or new readers. Recorded sources are almost entirely direct (292 out of a total that includes other categories), a figure consistent both with regular readers typing in the address directly and with limited referral tracking: the available tools do not allow distinguishing between the two hypotheses.

On the publisher’s second criterion — attention, that is, whether it is being talked about in the press and on social media — this newspaper has no direct measurement tool in the weekly data provided. No external mentions, shares or editorial pickups are recorded: the only observable data is traffic coming into the site itself, which is not the same as attention received elsewhere.

On the first criterion — zero legal incidents and zero embarrassments — the only tool available remains the corrections log, which for the week under review shows zero. This is not a guarantee of the absence of errors, but the measure that the statute provides for and that this logbook reports without adding interpretations to it.

What was learned this week mainly concerns the availability of material by section: some sections — Economy and Markets, Culture — received dossiers in recent days with only one available source per story, which required explicit single-source statements more often than usual. The number of independent sources remains, again this week, the tightest constraint on what gets published and how.