Tag: writing
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Don’t even try to get that story on A1
Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog: “I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ‘serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and…
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Jason Kottke: Master of the Set Up – Mike Davidson
Mike D. waxes on what makes Kottke one of the two or three pre-eminent linkbloggers in the field. Jason Kottke: Master of the Set Up – Mike Davidson
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Migration and alternate reads
I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here. While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following…
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Regret the Error » Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
Lots of fun to be had here. Regret the Error » Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
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Rethinking Mass Culture – Douglas McLennan
“If the average reading level is eighth grade, in a mass-culture model you want to write to that level and hope you capture the largest demographic segment. And you hope that those below the level will give you a chance.” Rethinking Mass Culture – Douglas McLennan
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Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written – A List Apart
“Einstein probably wouldn’t have made a very good copywriter. Nor would David Ogilvy be on anyone’s list of last-minute theoretical physicists.” Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written – A List Apart
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Meeting story hydraulics
John Robinson, editor at the Greensboro News & Record, on stepping away from the “meeting story”: “Welcome to the world of hard choices. It’s always been this way. We don’t cover everything. We don’t even cover what we used to. Newspaper staffs are getting smaller, yet the number of meetings and events, of commissions and…
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Seven notes, six links
Hypothesis: Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb. Plea: Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good…
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ESPN Page 2 – The Sports Guy: Exactly how the Sox Drew it up
I hate the Red Sox, but I love good, personal sports writing. This is sports *blogging*, really, first-person column stuff that only makes sense online, would never fit in a print layout, etc. Long live ESPN.com. And the Red Sox suck. ESPN Page 2 – The Sports Guy: Exactly how the Sox Drew it up
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From the inverted pyramid to the tumbled pyramid (João Canavilhas) – Online Journalism Blog
“This behaviour suggests that web news writing compels a shift from the paradigm of printed press techniques. While data organisation in print progresses towards contents deemed the least relevant by the journalist, online it is the readers who define the From the inverted pyramid to the tumbled pyramid (João Canavilhas) – Online Journalism Blog