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February 19, 2008
Looking out for typos
Typos are a nightmare for any newspaper editor - we dread them.
There have been several instances of them creeping in to the Gazette recently, last week's page three lead heading being a classic example.
And there was also the spelling mistake in the lead heading of a recent edition of the Gazettes's sister paper the Leader - this caused quite an outcry from readers.
However, the point I want to make is that despite the various emails and phone calls I get on a regular basis I do actually read the Gazette pages before they go to print and try to ensure they are error free.
Mistakes do sometimes occur and in some cases it's just a case of 'word blindness' that causes them. All the news, sport and guide pages that appear in the paper are read by at least two people but even then the odd error can slip through the net.
I am just about to read a whole stack of pages for this week's paper and you can bet that having written this blog a mistake will somehow appear in tomorrow's paper - but we are no where as bad as some newspapers when it comes to typos.
Posted by aseal at February 19, 2008 8:23 AM