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billpitcher
 Post subject: Guess they have no copy desk
PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:35 pm 
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... if they want assistant city editors being the last line of defense.

http://www.journalismjobs.com/job_listi ... bid=972121

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We’re looking for an aggressive, eagle-eyed assistant city editor who can coach reporters and writers, edit their copy to make it better and be the last line of defense against typos, factual errors and libel.

The Bristol Herald Courier is an award-winning 40,000-circulation daily on the Virginia-Tennessee line and prefers a candidate with at least five years’ experience as a news reporter who is looking for that first editing job, or is an editor at a smaller newspaper looking to move up to a midsize.



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Since when is 40,000 "midsize"? When I worked for a 40,000-circ paper, we called it "small."
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A few more years, and 40,000 may qualify as a metro.
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Well, from this bio, I think when they say "copy desk," I think they mean design and headlines:

As copy desk chief, he develops schedules for the design staff in addition to design duties, which include building the newspaper's front page four days each week.
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