Dow Jones Newswires bans spell check

If ever there was a doubt that spell check has its downsides (aside from ruining the spelling skills of millions), Dow Jones Newswires has now banned spell check!

"We have had too many incidents where the use of the spell-check program within our editorial production system (news station) led to our publication of errors on Dow Jones Newswires," says Neal Lipschutz, Senior Editor, Americas, in a staff memo reprinted on Romenesko. "Most typically, this has involved the inadvertent changing, based on a spell-check suggestion, of a proper name of a person or company into a non-related word. For this reason, spell-check should no longer be used by reporters or editors in the Americas when writing or editing for publication on Newswires."

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"...Americas when writing or diting for publication on Newswires"

"dting"?

bring back spell check!

Posted by damon at February 18, 2004 11:21 AM

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