It's a testament to how much more software we could stand to develop, software that probably hasn't even been touched, yet.<p>For a newspaper, obviously they need to have a parallel process to layout the paper and develop the content. Why don't they have software now that "compiles" the paper from design files and content files and won't release the copy until all of the content is marked as reviewed?<p>Or essentially, as the person is performing the layout for stuff like callouts, instead of generating their own placeholder content, they generate rules for the place holder content (just as they seem to be typing rules into the callout as the placeholder itself), and the system would both generate the placeholder for the designer, while also queuing the snippet of content for the writer.<p>Then, you just have to train your users "never type in your own placeholder text." Use the queue as a project management tool. Editors could then review the text, mark it as reviewed, or re-enqueue it for rewriting. The article is done when the queue is done.<p>I mean, really, I'm not even describing anything revolutionary here. It's BugZilla, Redmine, etc., just with a layout program tied to the fields in the database.<p>Would newspapers and magazines actually use something like that? Or is pigheaded entrenchment into old ways the disease of their industry that is leading them to die out?