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Yes, but did you fire the copy editor
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska ran a sophomoric caption to a photo of Sarah Palin giving her speech in Hong Kong recently. Some snarky jerk of a copy editor…
Copy editing
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Millions and billions: Easily confused
I’ve laid off N&R copy editors, who haven’t had a good week, because readers of this blog have probably noticed the uh, occasional typo. I’ve also been around journalism long…
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Copy editing a problem in Germany, too
The decline and fall of good copy editing in American journalism has been remarked upon extensively. Apparently, though, the problem is international. On the Web site of the German magazine…
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No Kidding
I never liked having editors. Sometimes it seems like they run your story through the grammar checker and follow its recommendations instead of the intentional words of the supposed expert.…
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Does TIME have copy editors?
Check out this lede in a TIME story today by Jay Newton-Small: If the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner is any bell weather – Barack Obama will handily…
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Michelle exposes a welfare scammer
She also exposes a newspaper copy editor covering up the woman’s racism with bland language in a photo cutline. Read the whole thing.
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Headline hijinks
I think the pre-holiday giddies must have set in for the copy editor who wrote the headlines on this story. Although I must say that writing a straight headline on…
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The problem with newspapers
Is writing like this. A little girl is killed in a freak hunting accident and the reader isn’t told that until the fourth paragraph. The first three paragraphs are the…
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Re: Moscow NYT story
You’d think that with the amassed intellect and worldliness at The New York Times that they could correctly transliterate the street name in the apartment story Nancy mentioned below. It…
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Fired Daily Tar Heel columnist
Paul, to me a much worse breach of journalistic ethics is the editor’s response today to the controversy over Bandes’ column. You identified the passage containing the “unethical” juxtaposition of…