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The key difference between online and print publishing

Vigorously managing what is already published is the critical difference between a professional online publishing culture and a traditional offline print culture.

The Ebola factsheet page from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been visited millions of times. It is an essential and hugely popular resource. Yet it was a real challenge to get this page reviewed and updated, according to Christopher Strebel, editor in chief of the WHO website. The reason was that WHO was so focused on publishing new information about Ebola that it struggled to review and update essential content that was already published.

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