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Clifton on headlines

The Plain Dealer editor’s second blog entry sends a salute to headline writers: The headline writers are the unrecognized heroes of the newsroom. They are the last set of eyes to examine a story before the reader sees it and…

Get ready for Dubya II

If Iowans are correct that Kerry’s the most electable Demorcrat, better get ready for the Republicans winning every state come November. Sorry, but that hair will not be in the White House except as a tourist. The bloggers who were…

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Posting Job Title: Senior Editor Posting Job Description: MAD Magazine seeks a Senior Editor for the Editorial department. Position identifies, solicits, and, develops freelance comedy writers. This includes but is not limited to attending events and reviewing newspapers, magazines, internet…

Welcome back, Rewrite

Rewrite, the blog of a Chicago Trib editor, writes about a newspaper in England that publishes in broadsheet and taboid. Readers love it. I’d love to know why the UK is mad for newspapers while the U.S. barely tolerates them.…

Shearer shears ’em

Harry Shearer on the entertainer-pundits: (from LA City Beat) Have you picked on Bush more than you did Clinton? No. The guys who have the guns are always the target. That’s sort of the rule. Everyone else is just running…

My Cleveland Plain Dealer tale

I’d been at the Tampa Trib a couple years (think summer of 1990 if you can remember back that far) when I saw this ad in Editor & Publisher for a copy editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A few…

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.