So is there any solution?
Professionals' Solution
"The Internet can feel like a jungle, and journalists are in the business of providing paths through the territory. Writers might blaze the trails, but editors maintain the roads. The vines are creeping and the potholes are growing. And maybe letting the road deteriorate is really the only way to make audiences and media companies realize the value of those whose names do not appear underneath the headline."
--Alexis C. Madrigal
"The job hasn’t disappeared yet, but it is swiftly evolving, away from an emphasis on style and consistency, from making a physical object perfect the first time. The path to excellence is now through speed, agility and creativity in using multiple expressive outlets for information in all its shapes and sounds."
--Lawrence Downes
--Alexis C. Madrigal
"The job hasn’t disappeared yet, but it is swiftly evolving, away from an emphasis on style and consistency, from making a physical object perfect the first time. The path to excellence is now through speed, agility and creativity in using multiple expressive outlets for information in all its shapes and sounds."
--Lawrence Downes
My Solution
"Unless all of the abilities possessed by an editor can be put into a piece of technology, editors will always be superior-—they will always be needed."
"But what many are not taking into consideration is the fact that technology should not replace copy editors, it should help them."
"But what many are not taking into consideration is the fact that technology should not replace copy editors, it should help them."
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