Headline headghgh-ache
June 4th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Newspapers
Front page of yesterday’s Johnston Press Bedfordshire title, the Times & Citizen, courtesy of @citizenbb on Twitpic:
@Deathknocking also posted it, with this comment: “Dear John Fry, this is what happens when you get rid of all the sub editors. Yours faithfully, the journalists of Great Britain”.
As we have previously reported, new content management system, Atex, has been causing embarrassment for JP journalists, resulting in misaligned pictures, or even missing pictures. They have difficulties with formatting the content properly.
But was Atex to blame here? If you know what happened, do let us know…
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