The recent success of Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, provides a good excuse to talk about one of author and Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer’s favorite words. “He likes the word ‘defenestrate’…with its vivid meaning of being thrown from a window,” according to The New York Times’ profile of...
The American journalism community fancies itself a completely neutral estate, the poster child for objectivity. But this conceit is, at best, ahistorical. Like all things, the modern press corps was born into an inequitable society, and its strictures show up in the industry everywhere from hiring practices to how certain communities are covered, if they...
By now we all know the story: the 2017 Fyre Festival was pitched as a once-in-a-lifetime “immersive music festival experience” on a private island in the Bahamas previously owned by Pablo Escobar. Through social media marketing driven by digital influencers like Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, guests were promised rides on private jets, stays in...
The website Who Pays Writers? was founded in 2012 as a public, anonymous forum for freelancers to share their experiences working for publications. It collects data like pay, details of relationships with editors, and contract information. Its goal is to increase transparency and help writers negotiate for better rights and wages. With more than 3000...
Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
Former White House aide @Cliff_Sims is suing Pres. Trump over nondisclosure agreements.
— New Day (@NewDay) February 12, 2019
“I’m not going to be bullied on this and stand up for myself. That’s what we try to teach our kids to do when bullies are coming after them. … I’m not going to cower” https://t.co/sjh1WOuWS0 pic.twitter.com/Wt5RTwbBEy
Jill Abramson tells us that "the language is too close in some cases and should have been cited as quotations in the text."https://t.co/tmCnbRKh8Q
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) February 7, 2019
Today ABC News is announcing "The Investigation," a weekly podcast about the Mueller probe. That + much more in @ReliableSources: https://t.co/NYjQGL8I03
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 7, 2019
ICYMI: Verizon Media, HuffPost’s Parent Company, Announces Sweeping Layoffshttps://t.co/sei4Tw1dcm
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 23, 2019
News: @mekosoff and @annabreslaw are leaving Gawker after just two weeks due to concerns about Carson Griffith, the recently hired editorial director. https://t.co/cxZM04j0zR
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) January 23, 2019