Why copy editors?

2009starmemoFollowing up on last week’s announcement that the Toronto Star was outsourcing its copy editing because it is not a “core function” of the newspaper, a Star editor has marked up Publisher John Cruickshank’s memo announcing the changes and passed it along to the Torontoist. (Get the whole thing at a legible size at the second link above.)

(We saw this first at McClatchy Watch.)

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