The Doc favors Duke in the Final Four. Safe to say that Duke does not favor him, considering his shenanigans during an alleged lecture in the mid-70s. In his ESPN column, HST quotes George Plimpton’s account of the point where…
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If you’re in Florida tomorrow
Try to make it to the University of Florida’s all-day symposium on Converged Journalism. The 2-3 p.m. session on blogging and journalism stars WashPostie Jennifer Balderama, ProJo online editor Sheila Lennon, L.A. Observed blogger Kevin Roderick, and moderator J.D. Lasica…
The punctuation enforcer
Reuters reports on a U.K. writer who is defending those apostrophes with her last breath.
Meet Wonkette
Media Bistro has an interview. (Posted for Nicole Stockdale, the foremost Wonkette-ophile.)
On naming jurors
Doug Clifton says he doesn’t really know why newsies haven’t done it in the past. It’s like one of those policies people forgot to write down. It seems to me that the Tyco case might warrant a suspension of the…
Now this is news
CJR’s Campaign Desk has glommed onto the fact that AP’s reporting goes out into the world with the assumption that other editors at member publications will finish the editing. “Lots of papers run AP unedited” is a running joke at…
Blogging from Ocala
Jeremy Verdusco, copy editor at the Ocala Star Banner, has created blocletters.com, where he plans to perform the usual blogging tasks. What’s unusual about Jeremy’s new blog is that he’s put a lot of work into polishing its look before…
Pentagon to Iraq: No press freedoms for you!
Iraq’s shaping up as a brutal testing ground for our revered notions of a marketplace of ideas. From my vantage point in suburban California, it’s outrageous that U.S. troops shut down an anti-U.S. newspaper in Baghdad. But there’s no denying…
Why newspapers will never die
It’s not just because you can read one while sitting on the throne. In retrospect, I question whether I ever truly mastered the change from print to pixel. Sure, I can navigate a Web page with the best of them,…
100 most mispronounced phrases
Infomaniac links to this handy roundup. (Note to Mr. Bush: it’s not nu-cu-lar.)