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
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.
Barlett & Steele Bronze Award Winners “Inside Game: How Corporate Insiders Profit Ahead of the Public” By Susan Pulliam, Rob Barry, Michael Siconolfi and Jean
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 will. Even the most diligent beat reporter will open up Twitter or a competing publication and Web site and see that she has been
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
Beat transitions have always been haphazard. At their best, the former beat reporter gives you her beat book (more about that later), takes you around
This was last week: It was an average week. I’m not working on a book at the moment. No corrections. When people hear these stories,
If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out — Anonymous LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote an important piece last month headlined,
As is usually the case this time of year, I’m honored to be asked to judge contests, including a piece of the Society of American
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