But is it really a newspaper?
Author: tom
The Grammar Police
Are always watching.
Job update
Atlanta Journal-Constitution is looking for copy editors and designers. Fort Worth Star Telegram also needs designers. Chicago Tribune needs an editor and an assistant editor for its new personal finance section. (I suspect they’ll hire internally but it could open…
On being retentive
Nicole links to this Poynter article that wonders what newspapers must do to keep their best people. They ask us time and gain and we tell them time and again — pay us better and we’ll stick around — but…
Why we used to read E&P for the ads
Because they’d run dumb one-source stories like this and wonder why we (you know, all those skeptical journalists) had no respect for them. What they did in this case was haul out the Rolodex and get Larry Sabato, the professional…
The scoop on ‘sucks’
Does it degrade the language and offend our readers to let it get in the paper? The Testy ones hash it out.
So many slurs
Found this link at the ACES discussion board: somebody’s collection of derogatory terms. The ACES discussion starts here.
Aussie tech follies
Australian tech editor Nathan Cochrane, newly linked here over the weekend, has something bordering on an expose at his blog — it’s a deeply skeptical look at an alleged miracle video-streaming technology that could either bring Hollywood to its knees…
50,000 years BC VCs
NanoBot blogger Howard Lovy takes an amusing look at what would’ve happened if the inventor of the wheel tried to get venture capital funding in caveman times. Your project is too high-risk, with little promise of return on investment within…
For all you idiom savants
Here’s a great big dictionary of idioms. (link via infomaniac).