Showing posts with label proofreading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proofreading. Show all posts

Sunday, March 06, 2011

The death of proofreading?

By Jack Brummet
Social Mores Editor

Proofreading and stringent copy-editing may not be dead, but they seem to be wheezing, and almost ready for life support.  While it hasn't happened in The New York Times yet, I suspect it will one day.  Even now, it's not uncommon to find a typo/transposition on the front page.  And sometimes incomplete edits, page breaks where words are missing, etc.   I wonder if the person responsible for this headline kept their job?

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