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Actual news still triumphs over clickbait | The write angle
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A blog created for UNL's advanced editing class. Actual news still triumphs over clickbait. Actual news still triumphs over clickbait. November 5, 2014. We’ve all seen the articles 25 Men’s Coats That Will Definitely Get You Laid. Or 38 Things You Probably Don’t Know About ‘Hocus Pocus.’. Thanks to BuzzFeed, in large part, our Facebook Newsfeeds are cluttered with clickbait headlines. But are these stories replacing real news in our lives? The analytics say no. By New York Times reporter David Carr about...
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The importance of grammar: Mistakes harm your reputation | The write angle
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A blog created for UNL's advanced editing class. The importance of grammar: Mistakes harm your reputation. The importance of grammar: Mistakes harm your reputation. November 18, 2014. The number one social media outlet might be the reason candidates aren’t getting jobs. Grammar is dying. Rather, society is killing grammar by not using it correctly. Some people say they don’t care about grammar, but they should. It doesn’t take long to find an endless amount of errors. Nowadays, there are millions of book...
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alexamariew | The write angle
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A blog created for UNL's advanced editing class. The importance of grammar: Mistakes harm your reputation. November 18, 2014. The number one social media outlet might be the reason candidates aren’t getting jobs. Grammar is dying. Rather, society is killing grammar by not using it correctly. Some people say they don’t care about grammar, but they should. Social media has become a primary way for people to express views and beliefs. According to Statistic Brain. Nowadays, there are millions of books, appl...
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You Don't Say: O brave new world, that has such pixels in it
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Friday, July 18, 2014. O brave new world, that has such pixels in it. The Internet is not as smart as it thinks it is. I know that we all crouch under the all-seeing eye of Mordor, our surfing and shopping monitored by our government, our email and search engine providers, the merchants with whom we shop. But if you look closely, you see slippage in the surveillance. The servers to which The Sun. Is connected are not in Baltimore, so when I go online at work, Google assumes that I am in Chicago. I still ...
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Throw Grammar from the Train: "Near miss" as Orwellian euphemism
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Throw Grammar from the Train. Notes from a recovering nitpicker. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Near miss" as Orwellian euphemism. The Word column first published in The Boston Globe, February 8, 1998). Tom Devaney of Lynnfield, speaking for many others, writes to beg, "Please tell me: What is a near miss? It's one of the most nitpicked idioms of recent decades, poor old near miss. To expose their logical flaws. But for the most part, usage commentators give their blessing to near miss. Was the industry's way of...
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Politics | Word Person
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Stories and essays, et cetera. July 9, 2015. Saw someone walking around the other day with a semicolon tattoo, and I thought: Well, that’s kind of interesting. Simple, graceful, understated. Had no idea what it meant, or that it even meant anything at all people get really dumb and … Continue reading →. December 3, 2012. The language of Abraham Lincoln. October 28, 2012. An exciting development in political punctuation! October 20, 2012. A heaping helping of alphabet soup. I had a boss once who hated acr...
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Hit the ground and just take it easy for a bit, you ninjas | Word Person
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Stories and essays, et cetera. Project Semicolon →. June 15, 2015 · 5:26 pm. Hit the ground and just take it easy for a bit, you ninjas. You see this a lot in job advertisements:. Candidates need to be able to hit the ground running. Hit the ground running. I guess what this really means is that once you plant yourself at your desk on your very first day, you need to know what to do. Without any inconvenient hassles like training or guidance. Hit the ground running. This is probably why I don’t wri...
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Newsroom Daddy » For Editors
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Your Source for Excellence in Newswriting. A Guide for Rookies. The Newsroom Daddy Guide to Hiring Journalists Online:. 11 Tips for Better Recruiting Results. A vocabulary list for reporters and editors. A guide to keep you and your boss on the same page from ‘BBI’ to ‘power verbs’ to ‘speed bumps.’. Helping Writers Take Charge: Five Tools for Editors. A serial workshop, Day One: A “Movie of My Reading”. A serial workshop, Day Two: Two Questions that Drive Revision. Offers resources for editing professor...
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Rimratz: Cutlines, Seattle Style
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A place where University of Montana students in Professor Dennis Swibold's News Editing course can find discussion, assignments and deadlines. Tuesday, November 14, 2006. Cutlines, Seattle Style. Evin Wagner checked in with the Seattle Times to see how they handled captions. Here's his report:. And they must be in English. Here's a sample to go with the Times photo above:. Posted by Dennis Swibold. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Getting it Right: Poynter Online. 44 Tips for Ensuring Accuracy.
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Throw Grammar from the Train: April 2014
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Throw Grammar from the Train. Notes from a recovering nitpicker. Wednesday, April 2, 2014. On (not) getting "pussy" into print. Jesse Sheidlower’s Monday op-ed. In the Times, calling for an end to prissy taboo avoidance in print, was a beautiful demonstration of the problem: Even in writing about words like fuck. He wasn’t allowed to mention the words. It reminded me of the time I thought pussy. Though some readers were surprised to learn the terms’ underlying senses). This time the main topic was nooky.
