“One staffer says three-quarters of his web pieces never meet the piercing gaze of a copy editor. An unspoken rule, says the staffer, is that only pieces trending on Chartbeat get a (retroactive) look from the copy desk … Despite this mismatch between reportorial output and copy-editing bandwidth, [editor-in-chief Edith] Chapin’s memo makes no mention of the problem, and instead
preoccupies itself with high-level oversight, standards and the like. Could it be that the big-dollar funder lacks a passion for copy editing?”
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