Month: December 2003

A quake at the Post

Jen describes what happens when she’s the only one in the newsroom at the Washington Post who felt the tiny excuse for a earthquake that rattled the Beltway yesterday. Funny thing was, no one felt it but me. I was…

On unpaid interns

An interesting thread at Testy Copy Editors debates the pluses and minuses. Speaking for the defense, Pam says: I arrange unpaid internships for my copy desk. I will agree that many shops misuse interns. But that doesn’t mean the concept…

A tidy newsroom dustup

Cynthia Cotts describes a teapot tempest at Newsday over a botched attempt to promote the paper’s foreign editor. The story doesn’t matter much to non-New Yorkers, but I’m linking to it because it’s so reassuring to see Newsday’s newsroom is…

MS the pop-up killer

Mark Glaser says the Redmond Behemoth is about to get religion on killing popup ads. Microsoft is prepping a pop-up blocker in its next version of its dominant Internet Explorer browser, due out by next June, giving more readers than…

‘Lingerie Bowl’

Why don’t we call this what it really is: an open invitation for Osama to send his evil minions to America to blow up stuff: In the January “lingerie bowl,” two teams of models will play football in sports bras,…

Public education at work

Romenesko points to a Long Island high school whose bosses have taken a hard look at their kids’ low test scores and decided the thing to do was crack down on the school newspaper. If we want to get kids…

Farewell to a great American

Paul Simon, the former U.S. senator who started out as a crusading newspaper publisher, died today after heart surgery. He was 75.

A stopper

A Newsday column lamenting “floating celebrities” — people famous for being famous — emits the following: In this, Hilton is one of a laundry list of not-so-illustrious examples. Kato Kaelin and Jessica Hahn, Monica Lewinsky and Joey Buttafuoco, Darva Conger…