Absolutely true that journalists are too busy to bother with markdown. What would be great, however, is to have tools for copy editing that do things like recog

Absolutely true that journalists are too busy to bother with markdown. What would be great, however, is to have tools for copy editing that do things like recognize people's names, Google them and spell check them. Recognize people's titles, Googles and confirms them and spell checks them. Style passes that could do simple grammatical edits around a site's style guide: call it a style filter. I have to say, for me as a journalist in tech, the one thing that ends up taking the most time in my stories is looking up name spellings and people's titles, and most importantly, trying to figure out if your freaking company is spelled TheCompany, The Company, or Thee Cmpany or some crazy variant. You startups and your mid-word-capital-letters. The bane of copyeditors everywhere.