The latest BONG Bull is a mega hoot. A highlight: IN NEWSROOM ETERNAL: A reporter dies and goes to journalist heaven, where St. Peter issues him a harp and a set of moderate-sized wings. “These seem kind of small,” the…
Month: November 2003
WashPosties, please report
On who this Jennifer Howard is, and why she was allowed to ramble endlessly about blogs but provide not a single fresh insight? Everything in her piece was essentially beaten to death a couple years back in the backlash at…
Feed your comics jones
BoingBoing correspondent Cory Doctorow points to the RSS feeds of various popular comics. By the way if you’re not viewing RSS feeds via a newsreader you’re missing out on a way-cool way to keep up with your favorite blogs. Go…
Feedback on newspaper blogging
An e-mail came in this morning from one of my RSS subscribers. Hi Tom, I’ve been subscribed to your “Prints the chaff” RSS feed for a couple of weeks, and enjoy your thoughts. I was particularly interested in your recent…
Talking news
Last week Jeff Jarvis must’ve said it a half-dozen times: News is a conversation. The past couple days I’ve been wondering what that means. As I noted yesterday, news has been one-way from the get-go: we report, you consume. The…
Bringing blogs and newspapers together
Say you work at a newspaper whose circulation is larger than 300,000 … big enough that it needs to cover major regional stories and localize national ones. A paper this size is just big enough that it needs to devote…
Job update
TV Guide: Copy editor Nashville Tennessean: Part-time copy editor Washington City Paper: Temporary copy editorAlbuquerque Journal: Assistant design director Palm Beach Post: Sports design directorHonolulu Advertiser: page designer Dallas Morning News: News copy editor Houston Chronicle: Features copy editor/inside page…
TV news truisms
From Steve Safran at Lost Remote (nod to BuzzMachine for the link), who offers a ton of eternal truths that seem strikingly familiar to the stuff we see every day. THE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES Those who believe there is…
Latest plagiarism news
Slate tries to figure who that New York Times guy actually plagiarized.
Willcopy’s back
The guy behind Stylin’ and Smilin’ has a fresh post — he’s been away for a month getting himself moved from Orlando to his new job on the features desk at the Fresno Bee — and wants to know what…