Cringing at online news copy?
"The editors who provided the anonymous last pair of eyes on hastily
written stories in years gone by aren't there at the levels they used to
be – if they are there at all," writes Fred Vultee of Wayne State University.
Vultee reports on an American Copy Editors Society-sponsored study
of how readers assessed edited and unedited news stories for
professionalism, organization, writing, and value in The Convergence Newsletter. The work is timely as
online news sites increasingly ask readers to pay for access. Read the article, then join the conversation below.
Recent and archived issues of The Convergence Newsletter
Thursday, May 24, 2012
March 2012: Measuring the value of editing to online readers
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