Thursday, April 26, 2012

Reporters need to be editors now

The Denver Post is laying off up to two-thirds of its copy editors, according to Westword. In a memo to staff, editor Greg Moore says that much of the paper's copy editing will be done "at the content-generating level." That means reporters will need to  be proficient at copy editing.  As news and PR move more and more to the online-first model of delivery, all journalists must adapt. That means developing an eye for details like AP style, grammar, punctuation and spelling, as well as an eye for the bigger picture in terms of content, libel, ethics and structure. Another key is fact-checking. It seems like a lot of times, in the rush to get the copy online quickly, fact-checking is forgotten.  These are some of the reasons all news-editorial and PR/advertising students in our program take the News Editing and Layout class.

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