On our staff links, there are editors -- paid staff -- who are supposed to do these things.
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From what I've seen, they're spellchecking and fact checking as needed for times, details and other information, but it's generally loosy-goosey.
Ultimately, as Editor-In-Chief, as I told her, her job is to lead the ship -- just as much as my job is to archive literally fucking everything.
I can't help her if she can't recognize how many people go down with her when she writes like the worst of the people we critique.
The reputation of the publication is the reputation of everyone affiliated with it -- literally the first thing she does was tank our rep by penning that article targeting magician_type_1.
The fuck did she think people would do the second she used a platform to assassinate someone without evidence and confirmation of that evidence outside of a screen-grab here and a screen-grab there?
ESPECIALLY after faking a series of tweets?
Our job isn't to play TwitterHighSchoolClub, our job is to write on the niches of content we're involved with;
That's one of the advantages of having multiple writers -- have them report the news of the hobbies, and then allow them to have personal editorials for whatever they want -- a pure advantage of business and pleasure.
All it needs to be is labeled clearly as EDITORIAL, and filed in a place where it's separate from the news.
Have personal detail pages that are about a yearbook section large for each writer/staff member, with cited examples of their best work.
Instead, every day it's -CRACK- -CRACK- -CRACK- with the whip. I'm not even a writer, and I can tell they're having a shit time at this, because that's all she's doing to churn out views.