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Good news

… For Bill Walsh, soon to be the new National Desk copy chief at the Washington Post. Bill was one of the first newsies I met online and one of the people who inspired me to instigate online shenanigans. (I’m…

Fun weekend reading

Think about being fired upon in a foreign country next time you’re grousing about what a pain those reporters are.

Financial Times online boss interviewed

She says they’ll pay for news if it’s specific to their needs, and that most of their news goes on the Web first, then gets followed in the paper.

Former copy editor named Merc publisher

Chip Visci did most of his editorial work at the Detroit Free Press … he’s been a Knight Ridder exec for the past few years.

Edna on editors

From the Calvin Trillin profile of Edna Buchanan (linked via Romenesko and newsdesigner yesterday) comes this bit about editors: There are editors who want to cut a story even though it was virtually ordained to run at least sixteen inches.…

Down on the range

Just for the heck of it, a Bill Walsh Sharp Point on idiotic uses of “ranging from…”