Month: January 2004

About Doug Clifton

Doug is the editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Yesterday I whined because the “about” link on his new blog was empty. The offending link has been removed but there’s still no “about” page, so I figured I’d Google…

A good start

Columbia Journalism Review launches campaigndesk.org. Where they promise to counter the spin, or counter the counterspin, or counterspin the counterspin, or, well, you get the idea what they’ve let themselves in for. Here’s hoping they’re up to it.

New editor’s blog

Doug Clifton, editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, has one. Well, he has the first post out of the way. Next up: putting something on the “About Doug Clifton” page and something on the “favorite links” page, both of…

Sponge for ridicule

I am speaking of yet another example of Poynter Institute silliness, this time praising so-called prize-winning headlines. I could link to the list but I prefer the outpouring of invective over at Testy Copy Editors.

Cowardice, illustrated

Columbia Journalism Review has a piece about a relatively obscure topic — illustrations for the op-ed page — that ends up a blistering critique of an industry scared shitless of its own readers and hostile to creativity. Read the whole…

A day on the press floor

Not the press room, which is full of complaining newsies, but the press floor, which is full of gigantic machines that put ink on pages. A magazine production editor tells of his field tripat mediabistro.com : A press floor is…

Revelation alert

Jen of Nonsense Verse fame is a dancer. From her review of Robert Altman’s “The Company,” a film about a ballet company: It struck me that in most of the sequences during rehearsal, when the dancers were told to stop,…

New editor’s blog

Please welcome Chriss Simmons Harris, copy desker at the Odessa American, to the blogosphere. Chriss’ opening post: So here’s the deal. I was once a writer who became an editor and needs to write again. Thus Chriss’ Case is reborn…

Fresh blogroll

A few notable posts I just caught up with this morning: Autumn is working on the opinion pages at the WashPost. (She reads her stylebook while tanning: how’s that for devotion to duty?) Powderhorn airs evidence his battles with the…

Blog slowdown

The pace of posting has slowed down around here lately for a perfectly good reason: blogging was ruining my health. OK, a bit of an overstatement but I decided back in August to forgo my morning workout and concentrate on…