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When I worked for a major web portal, I was "in a different dept" and all I got was a bit of word on mouth, coffee gossip and "customer interview" (editors discussing features they needed in the portal), so take this with a grain of salt, especially that it was a moderately average portal in a backwater country on an unfashionable continent. The job is 95% ...

As a former journalism major (who has used almost none of those skills professionally), let me tell you right now that you DO NOT make changes to what a person says EVER. Don't misrepresent what the interviewee says. Don't misquote them. Don't change the meaning of what your interviewee says. But you can leave the word whiskers out. Leaving out all the ...

It's conventional to drop the "umm"s and "you know"s and correct obvious grammar errors. Like if someone says in a speech "Senator Jones say he will ..." I think most reporters would correct that to "Senator Jones SAYS he will ..." with no hesitation. Similarly, when people are speaking, they often repeat themselves and generally ramble. It's routinely ...