Ed Page, one of the funniest guys in cyberspace, started up Danger Blog! awhile back; it’s full of idiosyncratic stuff that’s alternately charming and hilarious. His latest post is from an article Conan O’Brien wrote for the New York Times,…
Month: December 2003
Give your books away…
… and get kids hooked on reading, Dan Gillmor says.
Bill Walsh’s favorite albums
Check out his top 30 and report back. I can never do these things because my opinions always change. For instance, I like late-’70s AC/DC better now than I did back then. I’m forever finding artists I adore for two…
Young guy to press: make it matter
Young guy Clay on getting younger readers: Young people will read newspapers if they think the newspapers are worth their time and energy. It really is that simple. A clumsy piece of pandering won’t help, especially if it bulges with…
Blogging local news
Lakeland Ledger’s finding a few scoops with its local news blog. (Link via cyberjournalist)
Save your best headlines
ACES is giving out cash for the best ones.
How to behave
Phillip Blanchard offers etiquette tips for copy editors. Q. I’m a young copy editor on a desk with experienced hands and sometimes I don’t know how to behave. Do you have any tips? — Anonymous in L.A. A. Sure. We’re…
Memories of the civil rights era
Ben Bagdikian on covering the civil rights movement in the early 1960s: I spent a lot of time in Holmes County, Mississippi, and the county seat, Lexington, including the period when I traveled with SNCC and stayed in their safe…
Warm, fresh blogroll
Scads of swell posts have cropped up at my fellow editors’ blogs to start off December. The highlights: Copy Massage on gays in the newsroom, dictionaries that defy us and writing 50,000 words in November. Nonsense Verse on who can…
Put the toaster away
American Journalism Review reports on the latest readership research about what gets people to read the paper: Perhaps the most noticeable single theme is optimism. While full of sobering data and often critical of newspapers, the studies are strikingly upbeat.…