I was reading my weekly SPJ newsletter and was stunned to find that newspapers are outsourcing ad design and editorial work to foreign companies.
The newsletter also linked to an article about how Express Newspapers plans to fire 80 copyeditors. The company will have reporters directly enter their stories into the page layout and have lawyers and rewriters edit the stories.
As for the icing on the cake... The newsletter linked to a rather depressing opinion piece by Lawrence Downes from the New York Times: "In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copyeditors."
It all made me very depressed.
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