… because there’s not going to be much hiring next year, E&P reports. And I just love this part: Companies “see some improving advertising trends right now,” and that keeps them from continuing to downsize, said Kevin Gruneich, newspaper analyst…
Author: tom
How did editors become the enemy?
Daniel Okrent, the new New York Times watchdog: My copy will not be edited, except for grammar, spelling, and the like. I’ve seen the Times’ copy editing test. You have to be really, really good to ace it. Then you…
S.F. Chron last paper on earth to paginate
They were still doing paste-up at the San Francisco Chronicle when I moved to the Bay Area in 1999. Now the paper has finally made the jump to pagination. Dan Frost writes about the changes: The Chronicle this year installed…
I got yer instant art, pal
Maud Newton links to story about “crap art,” which is described as follows. Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Tom Murphy challenges musicians to write, record and mix an entire album in one 24-hour period “preferably with no sleep breaks in-between.”…
A day at the beach
Why Mondo Winkie’s family is probably not like yours: We all had been making merry (drinking a lot) and my granddad, dad and I decide to go walk on the beach. Yes, the mid-Atlantic beach is cold during Christmastime, but…
Worry of the day
Will SideSalad run out of disturbing Santas before Christmas gets here?
On the design font, er, front
Newsdesigner links to a discussion about doglegs. Infomaniac links to a photographer at a smalltown paper who frets that we’re getting Poynterized. Our editor has signed all the reporters up to receive the daily blog called Al’s Morning Meeting. It…
Former Tampa Trib reporter dies
Frank Ruiz, 57, was a longtime business reporter who left the Trib in 2000. I remember the byline but never knew him when I was there. Here’s a link to his consultancy business.
Overdue link payback
These are sites that have linked to Prints the Chaff since early October, the last time I did a link payback. There are tools to do this automatically but I like doing it by hand, because it’s entertaining finding out…
Vote for Tim!
Tim Porter’s blog is one of the nominees for Best Journalist/Media blog in Blogger Awards 2003. Get over there and vote for his site … let’s see how high we can push him up in the rankings.