It's called The Biggest Story in the World, and it's part of editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger's last hurrah, his final change-everything campaigning push before he steps down.
As part of editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell's leadership team, Fray has embraced some of the Australian's campaigns: against the Australian Press Council and its former head, Prof Julian Disney, as well as against the ABC and Fairfax.
She said self-imposed restraint on the part of editors was the right way to deal with difficult cases, rather than "heavy handed" statutory regulation.
Monday's corrections column on Page 2 contained three items that reflect helpless exasperation on the part of editors responsible for maintaining The Times's high standards.
These may not represent the submitted letters overall; thus there may be selection bias on the part of editors.
A few considered it vulgar, and thought it reflected a lack of seriousness on the part of the editor.
Giving the reader anything and everything, and telling him or her to make a selection, is an abdication of responsibility on the part of the editor.
Nor was I inclined to abdicate an essential part of the editor's job: to investigate complaints, publish retractions with prominence comparable to that of the original error, discipline transgressors and altogether uphold the standards for which an editor is legally and morally responsible.
She corrects facts in Chatwin's letters, which is, of course, part of an editor's duties, but when she insists that he didn't spend a week decorating their house, only two days, or that he has retrospectively appropriated a lung infection she had in India, she seems still to be caught up in the marriage, understandably preferring wrangling to silence.
The case established the doctrine of fair abridgement, which allowed that abridgements displaying a fair amount of labour on the part of the editor, and that differed from the original published work in a significant way, could not be piracy.
True abridgements presented a true effort on the part of the editor, and by this effort, constituted a new work which did not infringe upon the copyright of the original.
