"20 minutes, I listen!": Why do your articles contain so many spelling mistakes?

Come on, let's start the week well!Via our new section "20 minutes, I listen!", Intended for the questions and remarks of readers on our information processing, in particular, Philippe, 43, wrote to us:

Why do your articles contain so many spelling mistakes?

We are not going to lie, it stings.And it stings all the more since we are well aware of the problem.Yes, our articles contain spelling, grammar, agree, conjugation, French ... and many more certainly.We would like to be impeccable.This is not the case.

Kilometers of lines written every day

Because we may be obliged to publish an urgent content, hot news requires, or be interrupted by a task that will simply forget to check this or that subtlety of the French language.Because, although we are professional journalists, we are not corrective.Corrector, it's a job, a world, even, in its own right (the presentation on this link).At 20 minutes, we are fortunate to have one, but he takes care of the paper newspaper as a priority (more explanations a little lower).

Because, too, our journalists do not only have one article to put online during their working day.And the more we do it, the more we expose ourselves to errors.A figure to enlighten you: 130 articles on average are written every day by writing.

That being said, how does 20 minutes try to limit the breakage?By respecting what is called the "copy circuit".For the web, the editor must reread, use the Ortho-Typo proleton procexis correction software installed on his computer, submit his text (or his video, or his story ... We do not forget the social networks either!)to his head of service.If the latter is not available, it is a digital publisher who takes over.Digital publisher who, for his part, also finds himself in front of a mountain of texts to be treated.On the form, of course, but also on the bottom, huh, otherwise it would be too easy.In an ideal world, after this great grooming, the article is supposed to be nickel.Knowing that sometimes, in an emergency, there is a publication before proofreading by a third party, which corrects that the article is already online.

Additional filters for the paper newspaper

For print, that is to say the paper newspaper, there are a certain number of tasks to be performed by the publisher (commonly known as the editorial secretary, or SR), which can be sources of error."In the edition service, we must cut articles, often long, from the web and rewrite them slightly so that they adapt to the small format of our newspaper, explains Nicolas Guérin, head of the edition service.Sometimes we have to update them when new information falls.Even if we reread ourselves with application, these are all interventions that can make us make mistakes.Especially when you are in the urgency of closure, that is to say in the last minutes before sending the files to the printing.All these interventions are fortunately validated by the press corrector, specially assigned to the paper newspaper, and the department head.

In an ideal world, after this new grooming, the newspaper is also supposed to be nickel.And when it is not the case, as much to tell you that you feel bad.With regard to the reader, the author of the article and his interlocutors.

Finally, know that in the event of a dumpling, if for the paper newspaper, there is no possible reverse, on the web, you can correct the shot.By ourselves or thanks to a reader.At the end of each article is the pictogram "a fault?"».Well, if you click on it, you can tell us about the error you have noticed.You can also directly highlight with the mouse the text of the article that you are reading to reveal a "attention danger" panel.A digital publisher or any other available journalist will proceed to the correction.

So, a avowed fault, for lack of half forgiven?

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