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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Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) announced on Tuesday that it has imposed a fine of R$153.7 million (approximately US$29.9 million) on Ti
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Central‑south floods prompt opposition demand for water review, greens urge cooperation.
Taiwan has recently been affected by a low-pressure trough and heavy rainfall, resulting in flooding in multiple areas across the central and southern regi
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Two Ethiopian soldiers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) were killed on Tuesday when their vehicle was ambushed by unknown gu
Iran blacklists 45 tankers for alleged Strait of Hormuz rule violations
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority announced on X that it has placed 45 tankers on a blacklist for allegedly violating the nation’s crossing rules in the
Enes Kanter Freedom ejected in heated WNBA clash with Chicago Sky.
Enes Kanter Freedom, the former NBA star who has spent the last several seasons with the Washington Wizards and the New York Knicks, was ejected from a WNB
Chen Jianren attends Palau Sustainability Forum, boosting Taiwan's health diplomacy.
Taiwan and its Pacific ally Palau have reached another significant milestone in their medical‑diplomacy and sustainable‑development partnership. On the 24t
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