The Luxury of Print

摘要

On the last day of February -before I began writing this column-word started oozing out onto the internet that the newspaper where I used to work was shrinking the newsroom by another 10% . According to various sources, the copy desk was targeted to bear the brunt of the job cuts. Generally speaking, this means shoving a lot of "institutional knowledge" out the door. From a practical standpoint, it is predictive of even more errors in both the print and online products.