My position as Director was eliminated as of 12/31/18 after almost 30 years with TR, back to the WG&L days. Just before I left, to help with a year-end deadline crunch and transition, I reviewed a journal article edited by a lower-level editor with many years experience who was not being terminated. The quality was appalling--barely even a copyediting job--typos, incorrect citations, bad grammar. Apparently this is acceptable to a company that values "fast and good" over "slow and perfect." That is not how I was trained and I would hope that it is not what TR customers will accept in the future. "My future lies in back of me."
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News on YouTube is conspiracy theory garbage. They don't even know what journalism is.
So many people who are making 6 figure salaries just mail it in and are dead wood.
Sorry to say, the market changed like 10 years ago.
The content is free and distributed. Probably more accurate and with less bias, although worse grammer and spelling.
There are many youtubers with more influence than freaking cnn...and thier budget and staff? Zero.
I get 90% of my news from youtube (better yet, b--chute). Now if TR did super fast and truly unbiased investigative journalism.... dare to dream... nah........
No surprise, it should be clear to everyone by now, customers and employees alike, that current management stopped caring about product quality years ago. They should stop saying they're all about the customer and just admit it's all about greed. At least then I could respect them for living up to their alleged trust principles.
Sorry--particularly heinous to post about a bad editor with a typo in the headline--herewith corrected.
Copyeditor, not Editor
My position as Director was eliminated as of 12/31/18 after almost 30 years with TR, back to the WG&L days. Just before I left, to help with a year-end deadline crunch and transition, I reviewed a journal article edited by a lower-level editor with many years experience who was not being terminated. The quality was appalling--barely even a copyediting job--typos, incorrect citations, bad grammar. Apparently this is acceptable to a company that values "fast and good" over "slow and perfect." That is not how I was trained and I would hope that it is not what TR customers will accept in the future. "My future lies in back of me."