Washington Post needs somebody to take Bill Walsh’s job when he becomes National Desk copy chief. Amusing aside: the Post’s collected copy desk bosses call themselves the Joint Chiefs of Copy. Refreshing aside: The St. Pete Times posts a straightforward…
Author: tom
BONG update
Charley Stough’s latest BONG Bull is out. Among the fun stuff is an anecdote from one of the folks at F5, a free weekly in Wichita that seems to demonstrate that coolness can stand up to a strong west wind.…
Mr. Winkie meets Ms. Mockingbird
Here’s her side of what happened.
Dang, my true identity is exposed
The average blogger is a teen-age girl who updates her friends and classmates on her life, with words and spellings not quite as informal as instant messaging, Perseus said. Updates are done twice a month, Perseus said.
My code of conduct
It’s clear we need some guidelines for journalists who blog. Each of us dreads the day we get dragged into the boss’s office and given the choice between our jobs and our blogs. It hasn’t happened to me yet, but…
Be a better blogger
A fine link I found at the Miami Herald blog written by the Liz Donovan of Infomaniac fame.
Where your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss goes for news
Internet first, newspapers second.
Finally a good idea from Time Warner
They’re freezing the salaries of managers and executives. Actually this is not exactly good news, because the bosses are always the last to take the hit, and when they’re suffering, everbody else is suffering worse.
Why newspapers are toast, Vol. XXXIV
Gannett all the sudden has discovered that local news is where it’s at. I don’t even have to read this article to know nary an extra penny will be invested in news hole or news staff. And you don’t have…
How I tried to be a music writer for a day
… or maybe just a music blogger. If you’ve got some time to kill, check out my account of a day spent at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.