Scads of swell posts have cropped up at my fellow editors’ blogs to start off December. The highlights: Copy Massage on gays in the newsroom, dictionaries that defy us and writing 50,000 words in November. Nonsense Verse on who can…
Put the toaster away
American Journalism Review reports on the latest readership research about what gets people to read the paper: Perhaps the most noticeable single theme is optimism. While full of sobering data and often critical of newspapers, the studies are strikingly upbeat.…
Homeless in San Francisco
Kevin Fagan of the Chronicle gets unnervingly close to a band of homeless people. Much of it is too sickening to read, but it should be read anyway.
More Side Salad stuff
And it’s as twisted as ever.
Heads up, Knight Ridder folks
Registration is coming to your Web sites, so get yourself mentally prepared for a fresh round of aggravation.
Reeling in the years
I’m scanning the newsie sites this morning and notice three headlines about publications essentially zoning by age … basing critical assumptions about reader/consumer behavior on how old people are. New York Times: In interviews this fall, Mr. Tanner asked several…