Job update

Tampa Trib needs an education/social services editor. (Does anybody seriously think they’ll go outside for this hire?) AP needs a Philly news editor. Atlanta Journal-Constitution needs a county bureau chief. Florida A&M University needs an adviser for its college paper.…

Heads and poetry

Testy Copy Editors on whether the twain should meet. The post I most agree with: It seems a better way of looking at headlines is not to say, “Heads are like poetry” but to say, “Heads are like prose,” by…

The Plimpton charm

From the New York Observer He triumphed uniquely in this because his career was founded on the expectation that he was not in the end going to win. He did hard work and made it look easy. He had the…

‘100 Worst Groaners’

Courtesy of newswriting.com. Example: Flurry Of Activity – Not unless you?re the weathercaster, and it?s beginning to snow. There are plenty of less stuffy ways to say someone?s busy. Incidentally, these were intended for TV news people but it’s remarkable…

Encyclopedia of Television

Yes, such a thing exists. Did you know, for instance, that “Sale of the Century” was the most popular Australian game show? Or that a show called “Z Cars” had the most episodes (667) of any weekly British crime drama?…