<human>: I'm a paginator for several newspapers around my state, all owned by the same company, all under the same publisher/same two regional editors. Over the last year, several properties have undergone editorial staffing changes, resulting in at least four publications that are being put out with no editing at all. I want to suggest to my boss and the publisher that I contract as a copy editor for those publications whose content has become downright hard to read because no one is editing for spelling, grammar, or style consistencies.  
Here are my concerns:  
• I don't know how to start this conversation to begin with. "Hey, did you notice how crappy and inconsistent these papers have become over the past few months?" is hardly professional.  
• I'm not sure how to prove that I'm qualified, aside from showing examples-- maybe take some of the articles from these papers that should have been edited for grammar and style before they went onto the page, edit them, and submit them to the publisher side-by-side to show him I know what I'm doing.  
• How do I talk about the money I'd like to get for this copy editing position? I'm currently paid around half the national average for my pagination job. I'd accept the same kind of pay range for the copy editing contract, but half the national average for copy editing is still about five dollars more per hour than what I make now. Should I ask for something between that and what I make now?

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<bot>: My company needs someone in a position we don't currently offer. I want to make the case to my publisher that the position is needed and that I can fill it, but I don't know where to start.