As promised, this week we will discuss more changes in the Associated Press Stylebook, as announced at the annual conference of ACES: The Society for Editing. But first, one more change that falls in the new “race-related coverage” entry. The previous stylebook entry on “race” simply gave circumstances in which mentioning a person by race...
Earlier this year, I faced a situation that’s increasingly common among freelance journalists. I had filed a story of about 1,700 words. And then I received a slew of questions, requests, and queries from my editor. By the time I had answered them all, across eight rounds of edits, it was close to 2,500 words....
Towleroad began as a hobby. An LGBTQ news site, it was started in 2003 after its founder and editor-in-chief, Andy Towle, left Genre, a gay lifestyle magazine. Pronounced “toll road,” it rose to prominence during the gay blog boom of the late 90s and mid-2000s, when it became appointment reading for a devoted fanbase. “Towleroad...
In 2015, Shamima Begum left her family home in London to run away to Syria and join the Islamic State. She was 15, and still in school. In the four years that have since passed, as Britain has turned toward nativism, hostility towards female members of ISIS has helped conservatives whip up their base. When...
I owe a lot to cable news. When I saw the coverage of the Gulf War on CNN in 1991 it changed my whole understanding of everything. Peter Arnett was on the roof of the Al Rasheed Hotel, describing what it...
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On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer’s Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year. This was, on the face of it, a remarkable turn of events. Singer’s Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, had just...
AM/FM radio reaches almost the entire U.S. population, while online radio and podcasting audiences continue to grow: https://t.co/2zXecOkgbw pic.twitter.com/kiT3JV5RgF
— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) April 8, 2019
Scoop: Great Hill Partners has purchased Gizmodo Media Group from Univision. The sites will form a new company, G/O Media, and be led by veteran digital media exec Jim Spanfeller. Story coming to wsj dot com.
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) April 8, 2019
For many publishers, there’s not much question if voice will grow. The question is whether news will grow with it.https://t.co/OljCC2Mx6V
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) April 4, 2019
ICYMI: BuzzFeed Bosses Flat-Out Stood Up Their Union Today https://t.co/gYJ1RcgdVj
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 4, 2019
Twitter is considering labeling Trump tweets that violate its rules @CNN https://t.co/hjJKJ2R86s
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) March 28, 2019