Checking and improving text for accuracy, clarity, house style and length before it is published.
Good work shows: Fixes errors in facts, spelling and grammar; applies the house style consistently; cuts text to fit without losing meaning.
Editing copy before publication is one of the media and communications skills on FinderK.
The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.
A licensing partner wants its co-branded cereal bar pack approved before a printer's slot. The logo is too small, the partner's logo too big, the bar is short of fibre for its high fibre claim and short of granola for its made with claim. Review it, decide, and hold the claims when the launch date is used as pressure.
Skills: Review artwork against brand rules and a licence; Separate must fix items from advice; Check claims against evidence and a claims register; Give a partner clear, usable feedback under time pressure; Hold brand and legal standards against commercial pressure
A tired reporter has filed the council budget story six hours before deadline. Check every figure, decide what to do with a single anonymous allegation against a named councillor, get the right of reply right, and correct the record when a reader finds a flaw.
Skills: Fact-check figures and claims against original records; Present numbers correctly: percentages, points and like for like; Decide whether an anonymous allegation can be published; Give a named person a fair right of reply; Correct the record openly and precisely