Jack Rosenzweig works for a company called Baseview, which builds pagination systems for small newspapers. Jack started out as a copy editor in New Jersey, and did that for a couple years before getting into pagination 11 years ago. At…
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20 great Google tips …
… to help you search happily. Link via Subterranean Homepage News
‘Now that I have a dog at home, I’m adding more dogs to cartoons’
… and more details from the workday of a Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist. A recent Walt Handelsman scrawl:
Struck & White greatest hits
Place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.
On growing up, and down
Dan Savage, sex columnist and editor of The Stranger in Seattle, has some words for daily newspaper people that I wholeheartedly agree with. You know, there’s some paper’s that take the fucks out of “Savage Love.” People will say they…
ABC News issues instructions …
… on fairness in news coverage. Though it’s heresy to admit that TV newsies have anything to offer us, the tips (from the STUMP blog) are useful. A couple zingers: 2. Note when there is good economic news (since we…
A media mauling in action
Some guy does what any of us would do in his shoes, and the next thing you know he’s Public Enemy No. 1. I realize in this day and age that the Cubs fan in question would’ve been named by…
John Markoff on the future
He’s the tech writer for the New York Times. From an interview with him at Online Journalism Review: JM: I read Bill Joy’s Wired piece with great, great despair two or three years ago. It’s not clear to me that…