It was a bit of a ‘scrap’ day at the office at the Croydon Guardian after a catalogue of errors were found in this week’s edition.
Twitter users were quick to point out that ‘skyscraper’ had incorrectly been spelled as ‘skyscrapper,’ which sounds like the kind of name you would give a tall boxer rather than a tall building.
The mistake was repeated on both the Guardian’s front page and the headline of the accompanying article – although it was spelled correctly in the story itself.
And it didn’t end there. The town of Purley was also misspelled as ‘Purely’ in the story’s intro, while the email address of reporter Riley Krause, whose byline accompanied the story, was given as ‘Riley Krayse’.
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To be expected – publishers continue to strip out staff from their editorial teams with those left picking up massive amounts of work. some subs working on 12-14 pages per shift – accuracy cannot be maintained at those levels.
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Surely, the Croydon Grauniad.
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Sadly one day the lawyers will have a field day – and what the newspapers have “saved” by scrapping sub-editors and the like will go on legal bills.
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True Staff Writer, although when I left a large regional newspaper it could be up to 30 pages a shift, from full layout to subbing every word, forcing me to take vol redundancy when the chance came.
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Nothing unusual now days really.
If you read the BBC news app it almost seems that every other article has spelling or grammatical errors and they are supposedly the ones with a healthier budget still
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The ‘scrap’ day at the office was surely before the series of errors, not after.
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