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AP misses date of Lincoln’s death by four score and 20 years; we all miss copy editors
The typo itself – an Associated Press story reported that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1965 instead of 1865 – was just that, a typo, as even a middle-schooler knows our 16th president never lived to hear the Beatles.
However, among journalists of a certain age (mine), the distressing though not unexpected aspect of the miscue was that the erroneous date made it onto so many prestigious news sites. As a 1970s-era college friend of mine put it in an email subject line: “Copy editing was a fine profession …”
Meaning that back before the near-extinction of copy editors, it would have been unlikely that the Associated Press would have allowed such a gaffe, never mind that it would have gone unnoticed by so many AP-subscriber news organizations.
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Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section (Megan Garber/Nieman Journalism Lab)
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
read more gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section — When read more launched in 2002, it did so with some declarations: “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.” And: “No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.”
Editor’s Choice: ATM Fraud: Skimming is #1 Threat; Phishing Attacks on the Rise – Bank Info Security
Industry insiders say card skimming incidents are growing and the ATM is the most-hit target, and a rash of targeted phishing schemes brings phishing attacks back to the fore. A review of the month’s top stories by Managing Editor Tracy Kitten: Industry …
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