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Author: | J Kaufman [ Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | News from the City of Destiny |
A Tacoma, Wash., newspaper that previously gutted its copy desk, and hence reduced the paper's quality, has decided to 1. hire a copy editor and 2. check the index and page jumps and 3. lift the monastic stricture of silence. That'll count as three miracles toward sainthood. Quote: 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. |
Author: | Heartodixie [ Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:24 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: News from the City of Destiny |
From the Stating the Obvious Dept.: When'd that stuff become above and beyond the call of duty? (And shouldn't "skeptical editing" be redundant?) |
Author: | Rio [ Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:42 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: News from the City of Destiny |
I'll at least give the News Tribune credit for realizing that it has overlooked the basics and is seeking to fix the problem, beginning with hiring a copy editor. |
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