Digital First Media Could Have Used a Copy Editor

Karma is a five-letter word.

Or put another way, the cosmos was winking last week when Digital First Media revealed plans to reduce staff at the copy editing desk for its Bay Area News Group (BANG) holdings. From the workers’ union website item:

In a Q&A issued Tuesday [April 18], DFM told its workers they must continue to “satisfactorily perform” their jobs and “demonstrate cooperation with the team during the transition period” in order to qualify for severance when they get laid off.