Telecommuter portrait: editing facts by fax
Jennifer Porter is the managing (29) of Healthcare, a (30) of the American Pharmaceutical Association. (31) her private office in her Virginia home, she assigns (32) to ten articles for each issue of the magazine. The writers send her their stories on a computer disk, usually (33) means of an overnight delivery service. Porter checks them and then sends them (34) the designer’s office in New York.
Porter’s biggest problem (35) electronic publishing is training her writers. "One sent the story on a wrong-sized disk; (36) used a disk that my computer couldn’t read; a third used software I couldn’t decipher."
The disk problems should improve on the next issue (37) Porter has recently invested in a modem (38) writers can send their stories directly to her computer,
Porter says she is a skeptical technical consumer. I like a computer the same way I (39) a pencil. They are both tools that must work. (40) something goes wrong with my electronic equipment out here in the middle of Virginia, I have to put it in the car and take it someplace.

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