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#whyeditors: Why Editors Matter

Last week, the New York Times announced a baffling decision to eliminate its stand-alone copy desk (and, therefore, a huge chunk of its copyeditors). In the days that followed, NYT reporters and editors sent strongly-worded letters to executive editor Dean Baquet and managing editor Joe Kahn explaining why copyeditors are so crucial to the Times’s operations, especially in an era when…