You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper
