Reuters is hiring reporters in India to cover American companies. Can moving the copy desk offshore be far behind?
Month: February 2004
Bit of a new look
Scott Shepler, the artist who crafted my page banner art, filled in some colors and made a few nips and tucks here and there. He sent me a new version this morning. You know you’re not really getting art unless…
Why They Hate Us Part 973
So the other day I’m at the workout room doing my Stairmaster thing and the TV’s got CNN or some other channel on, and they keep playing the surveillance camera footage of the 11-year-old girl being abducted. Now her body’s…
Banned for Life update
It’s been ages since I updated the Banned for Life list, but I got a good one this morning that inspired me to post further updates here: This one makes her puke: I didn’t see “choked to death on his…
Coming clean on open records
Doug Clifton writes about the Plain Dealer’s battles to keep records open and meetings open. Doug’s an editor-in-chief so he isn’t really allowed to speak in the plain language the rest of us enjoy in vast wastes of the blogosphere.…
True tales from Bill Clinton’s court jester
Clinton had a humorist on staff, who wrote of his experiences in this Washington Monthly article. I took for granted that the endgame of these ritual humor dinners was to ingratiate oneself to the audience–in this case, the press–and that…
From the Dave Barry blog
Super Bowl boob reference of the day: Janet Jackson as another, um, single out Hats off to the smart-alecks on the Arizona Star copy desk.
Knight Ridder’s campaign blog
The folks on the campaign trail are filing dispatches at krtrail.blogspot.com. I posted the whole URL to highlight a pet peeve of mine: that the corporation I work for has professional journalists representing our company hosting blogs at Blogspot. There…
More on Jen’s dancing career
Not sure why but I’m fascinated with Jen of Nonsense Verse’s dancing career … maybe it’s because ballet is so unlike copy editing; maybe not the exact opposite but maybe 178 degrees. She has a new post on getting back…
Commas in headlines
Nicole muses on the right and wrong reasons to put commas in headlines. For those of you who don’t write heads for a living: a comma implies “and”: Scores of angry ducks, geese infest City Hall Nicole’s point is that…