Archive for July 6th, 2009

Copyediting 2.0

July 6, 2009

The Washington Post’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reported yesterday that readers are getting increasingly upset over the number of typos, formatting mistakes and grammatical errors in news stories. He cites, for example, references to a “Democratically” (instead of Democrat-) controlled Congress and the Marine “Corp” (instead of Corps). Alexander blames the Post’s layoff of copy editors [...]