I'm not a copy editor, but, oh boy, there are times that I wish I were. Reading the paper in recent years has become painful for me. Hardly a page is free of...
I worked at the Express-News for six months. It is, for its size and resources, way behind the curve in copy-editing aptitude.<br><br>There are some talented...
I agree. It's so rare that a sports article in the E-N will stand out, that it's really noticeable if one does. Some of the columnists can be good, but the...
Hi, nice to see some regular ACES folks on this page. I wanted to recommend a dictionary to you. I just picked up the American Heritage Fourth Edition. It's a ...
I don't know if I can say doing a redesign is not that big a deal. In addition to the obvious having to create a new look by selecting one of the thousands of ...
My design editor at the Missourian today invited me to attend the Mid-America Press Institute Workshop on behalf of my campus newspaper (where I serve as...
I was involved in an auto accident Wednesday morning. (No injuries.) I was attempting to pull into my driveway after returning from college when I was ...
Glad to hear that you are OK, Gabe ...<br><br>In our newsroom, sadly, news travels at an unbelievably slow pace. Or maybe it just has a set path, and the same...
EDITORS/REPORTERS/COPY EDITORS The Monitor, a prize-winning, fast-growing daily in South Texas, is looking for editors, reporters and copy editors with...
A PERSONAL ODYSSEY<br>By THOMAS SOWELL <br>Reviewed by DEBORAH E. McDOWELL<br>". . . a bitter, brittle, captious book, despite its avuncular conclusion. There...
My ME just called me at home with news of trouble on the desk. Turns out, one of our best paginators was just called away to New York to care for an ill ...
Not sure what our deadline policy will be if electoral college returns aren't final until dawn approaches. Hope we don't have votes being tallied at midnight...
Let's hear it for the Associated Press, which refused to "award" Florida to Bush just because the television networks had done so. <br>You didn't have to be ...
Election 2000 continues ...<br><br>I didn't work at the real newspaper last night, for I was at my campus newspaper. I think it's fairly safe to say that last...
"George W. Bush swept through Tennessee like a tornado through a trailer park." -- Dan Rather<br><br>"Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who?"<br>-- Alan ...
>>>>At my campus paper, we put our election issue to bed at 4 a.m., using the vague headline of "And the winners are ..." and mugs of Bush AND ...
>>>>Who would have thought there was a headline out there worse than "BUSH WINS" .... >>>><br><br>A buddy of mine reports that his ME...
By Charles M. Madigan and Dahleen Glanton , Tribune Staff Writers <br><br>The nation has a new president, but <br><br>***No, it doesn't. Don't confuse people,...
"Bush edges out victory"<br> That was our headline. Blamp was right on about the AP and the decision-makers watching TV instead of the numbers. <br> We had a 1...
By BARRY SCHWEID<br>AP Diplomatic Writer<br> WASHINGTON (AP) _ Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat slammed Israel on the White House doorstep Wednesday after a ...
Same topic, different take. And the other guy calls himself a Diplomatic Writer ... <br>----<br>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser ...
R.W. Apple writes:<br><br>"All this came at a difficult moment for the American political system. The transfer of power, especially after very close elections,...
Seeing this on the wire just made me join, because I wanted to post this reach of a lede. When you've got juicy material, why go in a completely opposite...
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