Daily Gazette-Sunday Gazette, Schenectady, N.Y. 1. Nightside handles live wire and local copy. City desk lays out local section, copy desk lays out the world and national pages. Sports is wholly separate. Quality of local copy runs from mediocre to execrable.
Reporters tend to be young and receive little guidance.
Copy desk chief selects stories, lays out A1 and jump pages and acts as main slot editor for wire. City desk slots local copy, except B1 stories. In recent years, the copy desk has been a stepping stone to reporting or assistant city editor jobs. There is a core of rimmers who are so by choice, and one or two who got washed up there and have nowhere else to go. 5. Copy editors are near the bottom of the food chain, just above clerks.