There’s been headline embarrassment in the past week both for Johnston Press and Newsquest. This headline filler was spotted by Jon Slattery in the Glasgow Evening Times on Friday.
Commenting on Slattery’s post Ol Peculier offers a link to another similar headline mess-up over at JP’s the Scarborough Evening News, posted on Facebook.
The use of the Atex production system at JP has been blamed for similar problems which have occured at titles since integration of the new system, such as cropped, misaligned or even missing pictures and other headline gaffs.
Earlier this year the NUJ wrote to the Press Complaints Commission claiming that a memo from Johnston Press management showed the new Atex rules “removed a number of checks for accuracy and seriously undermined the role of the editor, removing their final responsibility for the content of the paper”.
Update: We originally incorrectly linked the Glasgow Evening Times to Johnston Press, it has now been corrected as a Newsquest title.
Johnston Press? No. The Evening Times is a Newsquest title …
The SEN clipping is also on Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/2o1043
How about making sure that the workflow is in place and the editor in charge take responsibility for something that looks like crap?
Nowadays with pre prints and executive sign off should exclude the lame excuse of software, after all the software does what you tell it to do…
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