Chris Powell, managing editor for the Journal Inquirer, warned his staff members today that they face a $15 charge for errors that require a press plate change.
The memo reads:
Thursday, March 13, 2014
ALL NEWS STAFF:
We’ve got to reduce the waste of press plates caused by news department errors that don’t get fixed in ordinary editing, as discarding a plate costs $15. So henceforth requests to the press department to change a plate to fix a news department mistake will have to go through the managing editor, or, in my absence, through the assistant managing editor for production, and a plate change required to fix mistakes for which there’s no good explanation may cost the responsible employee, whether editor or reporter, a payroll deduction for the cost of the plate. Let’s be more careful.
