Wednesday, April 09, 2008

A new work vocab

It's funny how newsrooms vary from one another. While they almost always have a bit of "sameness" like the people in them, similar annoying problems... they are different in the smallest ways.

Vocabulary is the biggest (and the smallest).
Hermes (my old computer system) has been replaced with Saxo.
An exploded type intro has become a stand first.
The slot is the production editor.
A CLO has become a stand alone.
A copy editor has morphed into a page editor (and some have become rewrite).

The list of new terms goes on and on...

3 comments:

Alexander said...

Tsk. It was always a standfirst!

So what's CLO stand for?

You are speaking a strange language...

Elysia said...

CLO=Cutline Only

That must be States speak.

W said...

I have been told that they want to rename it from Rewrite to 'Revise' because of 'the negative implications of rewrite'