Core group of about 5 or 6 has been here 6-20 years. Three days, including actual work and interviews, and meals for chatting. Lately, a better effort has been made to include us in general training, but it remains very tough for most of us to attend because of deadlines and staffing. We informally train new copy editors and interns. One floor editor is 5 to 1 a.m. 17.
Extra pages are okay.
This paper seems terribly imbalanced. The copy editors have almost now power. Even metro editors have little power, it seems. They seem afraid or unwilling to direct or correct writers. Writers seem free to write almost anything they choose at any length they choose.