Kissing Editing Goodbye

 The main point of this article was that editors are being significantly let go from many papers we are all familiar with.  The newspaper industry is suffering and faced with having to make cuts.  Many papers are choosing to make those cuts by decreasing the numbers of editors in the newsroom, resulting in stories being published without a second read.

This change is putting more responsibility on the reporters than ever before.  While I am a firm believer in a reporter doing their job, I also think editing is very important.  With fewer editors, the chances of mistakes getting published are much more likely.  As I wrote in my research paper, this will harm the respect and trustworthiness of a paper by its readers.  When a newspaper isn't accurate, their audience looses trust.  The article says it best when it says, " Editors are guardians of credibility, and without credibility we really haven't got a leg to stand on."  Editors are there for more than jsut adding a missing comma or conjunction.

The article stated that saving the reporting jobs has become a priority at the cost of editing jobs.  I don't think it can just be decided that reporters are more important than editors.

Reporters work under tight deadlines and time constraints.  I find that after working into the late hours of the night, I get tired and make mistakes.  I depend on peer editing to help make my story better and catch mistakes my eyes just didn't see.

Sometimes I find that I read a sentence over and over and over and still don't find a mistake that is staring right at me.  I automatically correct something in my head as I read it because I know what it is supposed to say.

No one can be exactly sure where the future of copy editing is headed.  The article offered a couple suggestions, but nothing is known for sure.  We will just have to wait and see.