Month: October 2003

Back under the radar

Wasn’t that some fun we had yesterday? Got a bit of notice from the Romenesko link … visitor count quadrupled but the numbers are still a dribble: 160 visits Wednesday, 640 on Thursday. My gut feeling is people are sick…

Tampa Trib bloggers saying bye-bye

All three Tampa Trib bloggers are closing up shop: Daily Dave, Clay and Side Salad. 11 a.m. PST UPDATE: Click on comments for updates that clear up most of this and go two-thirds of the way toward exculpating Trib bosses.…

Eight who need jobs

… inspire 8goodpeople.com. Correction: make that seven — one just got a job.

Required reading

Because the headline says “State of the American Newspaper.” Excerpt: How are newspapers coping as they try to make sense of the uncertainty in Iraq and stay in position to cover terrorism everywhere? To find out, I spoke with editors…

Job update

Tampa Trib needs an education/social services editor. (Does anybody seriously think they’ll go outside for this hire?) AP needs a Philly news editor. Atlanta Journal-Constitution needs a county bureau chief. Florida A&M University needs an adviser for its college paper.…

Heads and poetry

Testy Copy Editors on whether the twain should meet. The post I most agree with: It seems a better way of looking at headlines is not to say, “Heads are like poetry” but to say, “Heads are like prose,” by…

The Plimpton charm

From the New York Observer He triumphed uniquely in this because his career was founded on the expectation that he was not in the end going to win. He did hard work and made it look easy. He had the…