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Last month, we shared word that the Denver Post planned to lay off two-thirds of its copy editors -- a number estimated by sources as sixteen. Turns out that was a bit high: Only eleven are exiting, with a severance package as a parting gift, because several staffers from other departments, including columnist Tina Griego, have taken the same deal. But the copy desk is already becoming a thing of the past. Editor Greg Moore explains the new system.
Moore is appealingly straight-forward about the reasons for the cuts, and why they will come from a variety of departments at the Post instead of entirely from the copy desk, as originally envisioned. "It's about money," he says. "It's mostly a dollar thing. We kept what we thought we needed in order to reasonably keep up the newspaper."
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Denver Westword, May 25]
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In recent days, plenty of cultural arbiters have gotten upset over "Booty Pop," the explicit new video by Albert Roundtree, age six; the NSFW clip is on view below.
Surprisingly, however, that's not the subject of a headline viewable until a short time ago on the Denver Post's website -- one that featured the phrase "sexual ass."
Here's a screen capture of the headline in question, which appears third from the top in a most-popular box that's now been updated on this Post article:
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Yes, the word "ass" was shortened from "assault," as the reader who sent it our way notes. He adds, "Another reason copy editors do matter" -- a reference to the Post's controversial decision to do away with its copy desk in a cost-saving newsroom reconfiguration.
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Denver Westword, July 10]