Doug Clifton says he doesn’t really know why newsies haven’t done it in the past. It’s like one of those policies people forgot to write down. It seems to me that the Tyco case might warrant a suspension of the…
Category: Editing links
Where to be on Monday
Bill Walsh will discuss “The Elephants of Style,” his new book, in a live chat at washingtonpost.com on Monday. Thanks to Nicole for reminding me to post a link here.
At long last
The Plain English Campaign.
Workin’ on the P.M.
A bunch of the people I work with used to produce the afternoon edition of the Mercury News. Their stories always start, “back when we were on the P.M….” Turns out the paper in Pittsburgh has done the unthinkable: brought…
The blind need not apply
A guy at the Chicago Sun-Times has created the Visual Editors Discussion Board. It’s odd that at this late date, somebody’s finally getting serious about creating a board for designers. Just about every other newsroom specialty has listservs or BBSs…
Staying on message
CJR’s Campaign Desk recounts a White House news briefing exchange that would be funny it were in a sitcom. The final tally? When discussing gay marriage McClellan employed the phrase “sacred institution” nine times during the 36-minute briefing. Close cousins…
Google bombs
Missed this one at Media Bistro last week: Sad to say, plugging Google in a story has become almost a telltale sign of sloppy reporting, a hack’s version of a Rolodex.
Lots o’ links
Nicole Stockdale on essential Ralph Nader details Oregonian’s public editor on why they ran a picture of a mom grieving the death of her son killed in Iraq. File under: Public doesn’t want to know the cost of this war…
Commonsense journalism blog
It’s the work of Doug Fisher, a journalism prof at University of South Carolina. An observation from the Poynter “convergence conference” he’s attending: Out of the ethics discussion came one “ah ha” moment: While convergence gives us more freedom, it…
A day on the press floor
Not the press room, which is full of complaining newsies, but the press floor, which is full of gigantic machines that put ink on pages. A magazine production editor tells of his field tripat mediabistro.com : A press floor is…