Kiss today goodbye ...

What website doesn't time and date stamp every story?

 

I've run across a few, although I can't recall specifics. I'm also 90.12 per cent certain I've run across stories a few years back on BigNationalSportsWebsite (or two) that had no easily discernible evidence of when the thing was posted (or updated).

 

Well, that's just too damn much work. Might have to hire another copy editor.

Or not "furlough" all of them...

 

Bingo. We have four people that handle all that for web and print, but two (one daytime, one nighttime) that deal with probably 80-90 percent of the copy. The other two are their backups for days off, etc.

When breaking stories are coming in at print deadline, which seems to happen an awful lot lately, one person has to do everything all at once.

 

How long does it take to change "today" to "Friday?" Also, you could just post as is and then update online version after finishing your pages.

 

You ask a good question. I'll get back to you Friday.

 

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger Friday.

 

Always hated using today. Really hated going into quotes and changing todays, yesterdays and tomorrows. Just write in the attribution when they said it and be done with it.

 

There's truth in that. If you have a full-time online editor, that's one thing. If it's one of these places where the copy desk just uploads content to the web at the end of the night, it's less likely. Just extra time devoted to details at the end of a shift that is already too long to begin with.

 

How long does it take to look through every story for style changes?

 

...and who's paying for it?

 

"Today" only exists in our print product. Online, it's day of the week, as should be. There's a Matt Lauer joke here somewhere, but can't bring myself to even try.