A Question Of Quality Online

Is the quality of online content compromised by sub-editor job cuts and the direct publishing nature of the Web?

That’s the question posed by Carl Sessions Stepp in his latest American Journalism Review article, entitled The Quality-Control Quandary.

Stepp interviews a range of journalists, editors and managers at several newspapers to gauge feelings on this issue in newsrooms across the US.

What he finds is a range of opinions, from those who see it as a manageable risk with relatively minor repercussions at present to copy editors who fear a major court case is just around the corner.

Read the full story on AJR.org.