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Ten minutes past deadline

Sub-editing when the clock's run out but the copy hasn't.

  • By Ed Latham
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • First post on

Posts per year

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Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 8
2023 6
2024 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Notice of interruption to service
When this blog reached its five-year anniversary in 2018, I wrote a summary of the conclusions it had reached so far, and I vaguely thought at the time that, should it run for another five …
On , by edlatham, 372 words
Respect the Elder
I regret to report that, after years with no serious incidents, someone has stumbled on to the biggest booby trap in the Tribune’s stylebook and set it off. A member of the newsdesk, having seen …
On , by edlatham, 555 words
Dontchaluvit!!!???
It appears even Glenda is having a bit of trouble with her subeditors this week: But it’s hard to decide which is more unlikely: that a mere member of the copy desk would criticise the …
On , by edlatham, 405 words