Comments on: Do we need all those editors? Wrong question to be asking. http://jasonkristufek.com/2008/02/19/do-we-need-all-those-editors-wrong-question-to-be-asking/ We Media, Journalism, Content Strategy, Technology, Social Media Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:34:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nez http://jasonkristufek.com/2008/02/19/do-we-need-all-those-editors-wrong-question-to-be-asking/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Nez Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:47:53 +0000 http://wemediaguru.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-34 Couldn't agree more with Jason here. Readership Institute has a good summary of the week's discussion over this (and other topics) at http://www.readership.org/blog2/2008/02/whats-core-to-journalistic-mission.html To sum: "I think there is a thread among these posts about the struggle by newspapers to resolve what's core to the mission and what isn't, while some of those who didn't grow up with the tradition are mapping out ways to do significant journalism." Copy editors aren't obsolete. I'd argue their purpose is more important than ever. But we're wasting the resource by handing them more and more Agate to paginate while the world whips by outside the newsroom. Couldn’t agree more with Jason here.
Readership Institute has a good summary of the week’s discussion over this (and other topics) at
http://www.readership.org/blog2/2008/02/whats-core-to-journalistic-mission.html
To sum:
“I think there is a thread among these posts about the struggle by newspapers to resolve what’s core to the mission and what isn’t, while some of those who didn’t grow up with the tradition are mapping out ways to do significant journalism.”
Copy editors aren’t obsolete. I’d argue their purpose is more important than ever. But we’re wasting the resource by handing them more and more Agate to paginate while the world whips by outside the newsroom.

]]> By: iowakitkat http://jasonkristufek.com/2008/02/19/do-we-need-all-those-editors-wrong-question-to-be-asking/comment-page-1/#comment-33 iowakitkat Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:16:44 +0000 http://wemediaguru.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-33 Oops and in the sentence where I admitted I made an initial mistake, I made another ... How illustrative of me! Every author needs a second pair of eyes unless he's in the relative security of his own (journal) blog. Oops and in the sentence where I admitted I made an initial mistake, I made another … How illustrative of me!
Every author needs a second pair of eyes unless he’s in the relative security of his own (journal) blog.

]]> By: iowakitkat http://jasonkristufek.com/2008/02/19/do-we-need-all-those-editors-wrong-question-to-be-asking/comment-page-1/#comment-32 iowakitkat Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:14:09 +0000 http://wemediaguru.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-32 Uh, tripping over the gnarly roots can keep even the most enlightened from seeing the majesty of the redwoods. Oh, my god...there's a spelling error! You know what that means, he was listening to what he was writing (btw, I just spelling that wrighting but caught my mistake. Why? Because I was listening to my writing.). This is a blog which means probably the only first-, second- and third-reader is the author. I'm willing to forgive a listening mistake now and then so I can hear what the author has to say. That being said, I am less forgiving in print where the copy has often gone through many, many eyes ... And remember, English is a living language. Who knows, perhaps written communication 20 years from now will be like today's text messaging. And if it is, is that necessarily bad as long as the message is understood? Uh, tripping over the gnarly roots can keep even the most enlightened from seeing the majesty of the redwoods.

Oh, my god…there’s a spelling error! You know what that means, he was listening to what he was writing (btw, I just spelling that wrighting but caught my mistake. Why? Because I was listening to my writing.).

This is a blog which means probably the only first-, second- and third-reader is the author. I’m willing to forgive a listening mistake now and then so I can hear what the author has to say.

That being said, I am less forgiving in print where the copy has often gone through many, many eyes …

And remember, English is a living language. Who knows, perhaps written communication 20 years from now will be like today’s text messaging. And if it is, is that necessarily bad as long as the message is understood?

]]> By: Janet Hughes http://jasonkristufek.com/2008/02/19/do-we-need-all-those-editors-wrong-question-to-be-asking/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Janet Hughes Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:25:30 +0000 http://wemediaguru.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-31 Was that "we-know-what-our-readers-want", by any chance? Oops, spelling not content --- wrong question to be asking. But what a a nice indication of the fine line between the two. Sack all your copyeditors and you'll have lots more inadvertent humour in your copy if you are lucky, and lots of inadvertent nonsense if you are not. Was that “we-know-what-our-readers-want”, by any chance? Oops, spelling not content — wrong question to be asking. But what a a nice indication of the fine line between the two. Sack all your copyeditors and you’ll have lots more inadvertent humour in your copy if you are lucky, and lots of inadvertent nonsense if you are not.

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