The Plain Dealer editor’s second blog entry sends a salute to headline writers: The headline writers are the unrecognized heroes of the newsroom. They are the last set of eyes to examine a story before the reader sees it and…
Category: Editors’ blogs
Welcome back, Rewrite
Rewrite, the blog of a Chicago Trib editor, writes about a newspaper in England that publishes in broadsheet and taboid. Readers love it. I’d love to know why the UK is mad for newspapers while the U.S. barely tolerates them.…
About Doug Clifton
Doug is the editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Yesterday I whined because the “about” link on his new blog was empty. The offending link has been removed but there’s still no “about” page, so I figured I’d Google…
New editor’s blog
Doug Clifton, editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, has one. Well, he has the first post out of the way. Next up: putting something on the “About Doug Clifton” page and something on the “favorite links” page, both of…
Revelation alert
Jen of Nonsense Verse fame is a dancer. From her review of Robert Altman’s “The Company,” a film about a ballet company: It struck me that in most of the sequences during rehearsal, when the dancers were told to stop,…
Fresh blogroll
A few notable posts I just caught up with this morning: Autumn is working on the opinion pages at the WashPost. (She reads her stylebook while tanning: how’s that for devotion to duty?) Powderhorn airs evidence his battles with the…
A plagiarism so foul
Tequila Mockingbird busts the chops of a plagiarist so obvious, so blatant, so unblinkingly baldfaced, that there must be more to the story. It’s hard to believe anybody with the ability to type could be so stupid. The guy actually…
After-Christmas blog roll
Updates from editor people’s blogs: Newsdesigner on the New York Times Magazine’s annual "people who died" issue. Mondo Winkie describes of those moments that always seem to happen to him. Excerpt: “Nah, I’m just a peon,” Advance Guy replies. “Peon,”…
Hat tip to Copy Massage
He sent me a curmudegeonly Christmas card. (And Thanks to Jeff, another Tampa Tribber who sent get-well greetings.)
Five Live Links
Travis Smith’s sub-blog has some cool/quirky links.