Though the editors at The Hatchet have yet to receive an e-mailed correction from GW sophomore Daniel Lippman, it looks like many Washington reporters have.

Lippman, according to a profile in Politico this morning, spends his free time sifting through the stories written by Washington reporters looking for factual and copy errors. 

According to the story,

The 19-year-old sophomore at George Washington University has become the Washington press corps’ independent fact checker, copy editor and link distributor extraordinaire. His e-mails almost always lead off with a soupçon of praise, such as “In your excellent article today,” followed by a link to the story and polite notification of a mistake, anything from a broken hyperlink to a misspelled name. 

Lippman has found errors in some of the stories of the country’s top political reporters, including New York Times Chief Political Correspondent Adam Nagourney, and has garnered the respect of journalists in and around the Beltway.

Ron Fournier, Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press, even invited the sophomore to the AP’s office. According to Politico’s story,

As Lippman walked from desk to desk in the AP newsroom, Fournier says the place quickly turned into a mutual admiration society. Reporters expressed gratitude for Lippman’s tips and corrections. Lippman, meanwhile, seemed “tickled to be putting the bylines with the faces,” Fournier says. “I don’t know who was more impressed by whom.”

So why does Lippman do it?

“I like accuracy a lot,” Lippman said in the story.