Print Writing/Editing

AP announces new guidelines for credit and attribution

September 2, 2010

Associated Press Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes has announced a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff. The policy, as outlined in a press release, addresses two kinds of situations: Attributing to other organizations information the AP hasn’t independently reported. Giving credit to another organization that broke a story first, [...]

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24 things you might be saying wrong

August 25, 2010

The Reader’s Digest version of all those confusing words and seemingly random rules you missed in English class.

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Coming next semester: DynamicBooks

April 9, 2010

Anyone who has attended college, or who is paying tuition for the family’s Jack or Jill,  knows that buying textbooks can easily punch holes in their wallets. Many textbooks are one-size-fits-all and don’t always mesh completely with the instructor’s curriculum, either. Macmillan, one of the largest publishers of textbooks, has decided that it’s time for [...]

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New media’s downs and ups

November 30, 2009

Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their way to Manhattan. Once there, they were told, they would work in marginal jobs for indifferent bosses doing mundane tasks and then one day, if they did all of that without whimper or complaint, they would magically be granted access to a [...]

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YouTube sets up center for aspiring journalists

July 27, 2009

YouTube has hooked up with several top news and media organizations to launch YouTube Reporters’ Center,  a dedicated channel that features how-to videos on news reporting. Billed as a one-stop-shop for journalism training online, the YouTube Reporters’ Center covers a wide range of topics, from preparing for interviews, to fact-checking, to journalistic ethics. Visitors to [...]

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Sarah Palin’s speech, the edited version

July 22, 2009

Vanity Fair asked its executive literary editor and employees in the research and copy departments to polish Sarah Palin’s recent resignation speech now that she no longer has high-priced Beltway speechwriters to do the job for her.

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First Look: Quickoffice Suite For Word, Excel and File Transfer on the iPhone and iPod touch

May 7, 2009

Word jockeys will be interested in the new Quickoffice for iPhone. It’s a mini-mobile office suite from Quickoffice and it’s the only iPhone and iPod touch app I know that can be used to view, create and edit Word .doc and Excel .xls files and also wirelessly shuttle them between handheld and desktop. iPhone and [...]

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Boston Globe’s management and unions settle up to meet Times Co. demands

May 6, 2009

It looks as though The Boston Globe’s management and the Boston Newspaper Guild have worked out a deal that would help pull together $20 million in concessions sought by the Times Co.,  the Globe’s parent company. The Globe issued a statement this morning indicating the two sides reached an agreement but that it would not [...]

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Coming in June: 1 million words in English

April 28, 2009

An English-language word is created about every 98 minutes, according to the The Global Language Monitor, an organization that keeps track of such things. At the current pace, English will cross the million word mark on June 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am (Stratford-on Avon Time). The word count this minute is 999, 383 with 617 [...]

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Wait, what?

April 21, 2009

What do you make of this summary from a resume, I received? To be directly responsible for performing high level specializing in operational securities processing activities in support of the firm’s business lines. I would like to be a subject matter specialist typically dealing with moderately complex issues as they relate to my area of [...]

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