{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-7.96.070","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 7.96.070","heading":"Timelines and sufficiency of correction or clarification.","body":"(1) A correction or clarification is timely if it is published before, or within thirty days after, receipt of a request for correction or clarification or of the information in RCW 7.96.050(1), whichever is later, unless the period is extended by written agreement of the parties.\n(2) A correction or clarification is sufficient if it:\n(a) Is published with a prominence and in a manner and medium reasonably likely to reach substantially the same audience as the publication complained of;\n(b) Refers to the statement being corrected or clarified and:\n(i) Corrects the statement;\n(ii) In the case of defamatory or false meaning arising from other than the express language of the publication, disclaims an intent to communicate that meaning or to assert its truth; or\n(iii) In the case of a statement attributed to another person, identifies the person and disclaims an intent to assert the truth of the statement;\n(c) In advance of the publication, is provided to the person who has made a request for correction or clarification; and\n(d) Accompanies and is an equally prominent part of any electronic publication of the allegedly defamatory or otherwise actionable statement by the publisher.\n(3) A correction or clarification is published in a medium reasonably likely to reach substantially the same audience as the publication complained of if it is published in a later issue, edition, or broadcast of the original publication.\n(4) If a later issue, edition, or broadcast of the original publication will not be published within the time limits established for a timely correction or clarification, a correction or clarification is published in a manner and medium reasonably likely to reach substantially the same audience as the publication complained of if:\n(a) It is timely published in a reasonably prominent manner:\n(i) In another medium likely to reach an audience reasonably equivalent to the original publication; or\n(ii) If the parties cannot agree on another medium, in the newspaper with the largest general circulation in the region in which the original publication was distributed;\n(b) Reasonable steps are taken to correct undistributed copies of the original publication, if any; and\n(c) It is published in the next practicable issue, edition, or broadcast, if any, of the original publication.\n(5) A correction or clarification is timely and sufficient if the parties agree in writing that it is timely and sufficient.","path":["Title 7","Chapter 7.96"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=7.96.070","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:39:36Z","sha256":"db6fe779d0e9c1e89f9dadd23fdc52abd4f7195be888183b11201def3440650d","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-7.96.060","next":"us-wa/rcw-7.96.080"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}