Testy Copy Editor: In summary
Staff
December 4, 2013
Mistakes are inevitable: a wrong number here, a typing error there. The news media are full of them. There was never a realistic hope that
Mistakes are inevitable: a wrong number here, a typing error there. The news media are full of them. There was never a realistic hope that
After tireless months of mining through documents and compiling databases, the winners of the 2013 Barlett & Steele Awards picked up a few reporting and
Last time, I wrote about the benefits of news originating from well-directed reporters rather than from the morning meeting. It was from an editor’s perspective.
The sensational story of a sham charity operator using a stolen identity and dodging an FBI warrant led to a 2010 Tampa Bay Times’ series.
One of the reasons I never made admiral of the Cox, Hearst, Gannett, Scripps-Howard or Knight Ridder navies is that I had a peculiar notion
You often have to put up with me railing against the single-source story.But this press-release “journalism,” merely taking dictation, is one of the biggest challenges
E-mail has made the news, news stories, and newspapers dull. (Patrick B. Pexton) Pexton, a former Washington Post ombudsman,doesn’t like email interviews. “E-mail is a
You will. Even the most diligent beat reporter will open up Twitter or a competing publication and Web site and see that she has been
As I write this, I have been preparing for an interview with Gary Locke, the U.S. ambassador to China. You’ll run into these kind of
Memo: To young journalists When I was your age, I walked 20 miles through the snow just to write obituaries for a small-town newspaper. Part
“Don’t be boring.” This isn’t just a consistent theme of my posts here but what the Washington Post’s incoming owner, Jeff Bezos, told the staff.
For most of my career, one of the most important questions bosses would ask about a potential job candidate was whether he or she had
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