When the sales people are happy to sell what the newsroom is happy to make, there you have a well-run editorial company. So measure your own newsroom's misery by its distance from that (ideal) state.
Many years ago I was sitting around in a hotel bar with some journalists who were telling tales, and one of them started an anecdote this way:
Published 6 Dec 2014 9:19 pm
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