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Next on the Chopping Block: Copy-Editing!

By Pareene, 5:19 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008, 1,616 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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The Los Angeles Daily Journal—a legal paper, apparently—has just fired its entire copy desk. Like, all of them. Writers writing their own headlines! And, uh, copy-editing themselves! It sounds positively hellish. Don't the bosses know that reporters can't spell? Or come up with pithy photo captions? [LAObserved]

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