What is editing and why do we need to edit?

 News stories come in from various sources. If you pick up your newspaper and just read the first page, you will find that it has stories which are credited to either individuals or news agencies like PTI, UNI, AFP, UPI, TASS and many more, or to the correspondent or reporter.

These stories are tailored to the required shape and size by using the right kind of symbols and expressions with news sense in mind. 

And all this happens before they come to you. This process of checking stories for grammatical errors, syntax or sentence structure and style, facts and figures clarifying for easy understanding, and condensing for economy of space is editing.

It also means writing the headlines, paraphrasing the story as per the style book of the organization, writing an attractive lead and allotting the story to a particular page

Why do We Need to Edit?

We need to edit because the first version is never perfect. The more you chisel the diamond, the sharper it gets. There are also other reasons listed below which will tell you of the need to edit.

• Because of lack of clarity in the writing the tone or mood may not be as it is intended to be. The story may not seem to be reader specific.

• There may be lack of space on the page and the story may be long. On the other hand there may be lots of space but the story may be short.

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