They re likely to turn in an unfinished story late and long. Coaching editors help their reporters by negotiating length between the reporting and the typing. Reporters base their space pitches on how much length they need to explain things to readers. Explanation justifies expansion, but the default remains short. Editors base their space negotiations on the amount of space available, the number of stories vying for it, and the likely demands of the news.
Some desk editors don t see negotiating space as part of their job.
They just pour stories onto the copy editors or layout desks, leaving the shaping to someone else. They lose control of the news agenda and treatment by relinquishing responsibility downstream. The next day, they get blamed for nonsense stories that passed through them. Some editors say they cannot negotiate story length because they don t know the space. They have insufficient information about the space until the dummy arrives from advertising.