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The Newspaper Association of America magazine cover story is "8 Trends to Track in '08." One trend is "leaner operations," and the story cites MediaNews' consolidated copy desks as an example.
David Butler, the new Mercury News editor, says the system "allows you to operate more efficiently because you're editing common stories and pages once" and not at every paper in the chain. But he acknowledges that "if a copy editor doesn't know the local community, the potential to look stupid -- putting Broadway Avenue rather than Broadway Street -- is presumably higher."
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MediaNews papers have all but quit covering Mountain View city hall (MVV)
