Denver Post to cut possibly two-thirds of copy editors

The Herald is moving to Doral in a year.

 

Greg Moore talks with Westword about the new process.

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/05/denver_post_greg_moore_copy_desk.php

He illustrates this approach by outlining its practical application. "A routine story will be written by a reporter," he says. "He or she would also write an online headline, which is typically what we do now. It will be looked at by probably one of our online editors and producers, and then it will be posted."

What happens if the story is designated for print? "Let's say it was filed at 10:30 or 11 [a.m.]," Moore allows. "It will probably be pulled back at three or four o'clock and updated by the reporter. By then, they'll know what page it's going to be on, how long it will be and the headline specs, and they'll write a headline for the newspaper. After that, it would be looked at by one of the assistant editors or an assigning editor and be put on the page by a person. The headline will be checked and the button pushed and cued up for publication. As soon as that page is cleared, with all the stories and headlines on it, that page will be done."

And near the end, there's this:

"I think they're excited to be able to share a skill set with fellow journalists who don't have it, and to have the opportunity to create a learning environment -- and we're going to be doing a lot of training and teaching about copy editing and fact checking and writing headlines for print and online. So I think a number of people are excited -- excited to have a job, and excited to be contributing to the future and making us stronger."

 

And the sports world, too.

 

Friday was the farewell for the laid off copy editors. Here's the goodbye cake.