A survival guide for sub editors and other curmudgeons
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I've spent more than half my career in the media subbing on local, regional and national papers. As a writer and and editor, I was saved by subs on countless occasions. My blog posts are probably littered with literals and factual editors and, I'm sure, could do with a good going over by a decent sub.
But if I was a reporter now and an old hand sidled up to me and suggested that I might like to retrain as a sub, I'd run a mile. And as for joining one of the nationals' subbing schemes for graduate trainees ... fugeddaboutit.
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