Improved editing is one of our newsroom goals for the second half of 2010. Here are some of our plans:

• Adjust our schedule so more editors work in the evening, when copy is moving quickly.

• Fill a copy editing position we’ve held open for budgetary reasons.

• Provide training in skeptical editing.

• Get stories to the copy desk earlier to allow more editing time.

• Establish protocols for editing a story or proofing a page when time is short.

• Encourage more chatter on the desk when perfecting important headlines.

• Hold a 4 p.m. huddle between dayside editors and the desk to better organize the evening’s work flow.

• Require the copy desk chief to sign off that the A1 index is right, that stories jump to the right pages and that other mechanics are correct.