Valentine’s Day is but a few days away, so that means that cable TV is running every romantic comedy ever. In watching 13 going on 30 for the fifth time (don’t ask) I noticed a strange trend in romantic comedies: one of the lead characters is usually a journalist. For some reason, the very same [...]
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Mon
Jan
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4 things I would tell a freshman journalism student
I remember the exact moment when I decided it was time to get a job. Chris Wink and I were winding down some travels and we had to set ourselves up with a grown-up job to come home to. So in a hostel basement we propped open the laptops and starting firing off emails to [...]
Mon
Jan
12
12
Hosting problems
Just a note to say this site (and all of my other sites) have been down the past week as I sorted out hosting issues.
More Barcamp info, freelancing news, and long drawn out blog posts to come in the next few days.
Thu
Jan
24
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Why is there no AP style check?
We have spell check and grammer check, but has anyone ever built an automatic AP style check? I’m aware there are judgment calls copyeditors make that wouldn’t be able to be done by any computer. But wouldn’t it speed up the flow of copy if things like capitalization, punctuation, and names of current newsmakers were [...]
Fri
May
18
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What happenes when Engadget and blogs meet journalism ethics?
Gadget blog Engadget recently single handedly cost Apple $4 billion in market cap when it published a bogus email from a supposed apple insider declaring Leopard and the iPhone were being delayed. The stock quickly rebounded but the power of blogs was evident once again.
Engadget recently detailed how it all went down. I [...]