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Skeptical Copy Editors Overlooked This One
Does the lead on yesterday’s Big Story sound strange to anyone but me? PUNTA GORDA–Hundreds of freshmen students sitting in the Center for Performing Arts &Education at Charlotte High … more →
Reading the Charlotte Sun Newspaper
Reporter Uses 1994 Government Press Release as News
: wrote 1 year ago: Two short bits before the larger story:Bit Number One: Skimming through John Lawhorne’s front page f … more →
Navigating Florida -- The Charlotte Sun Way
: wrote 1 year ago: One assumes Charlotte Sun’s newsroom is equipped with an atlas and it has a page or two devote … more →
Dear Abby: I Haz Not Copee Editur Bluz
: wrote 1 year ago: Deer Abby: I know you get alotsof letters from peeple complainingabout there bosses. I’d like … more →
Left: Washington, with beard. Right: Lincoln, with white-powdered hair
: wrote 1 year ago: These iconic photos have been reproduced in thousands of American texbooks and are routinely used in … more →
Writing Without Editors
: wrote 1 year ago: “In place of the Morse code question, the radio operators written test will have more technical ques … more →
Nothing Special About "Special To the Sun"
: wrote 1 year ago: “Don’t put off your mammogram this summer” is an article bylined to Sandy Powers and credited as bei … more →
Skeptical Copy Editors Overlooked This One
: wrote 1 year ago: Does the lead on yesterday’s Big Story sound strange to anyone but me? PUNTA GORDA–Hundr … more →
Feature Fails to Deliver
: wrote 1 year ago: Headlines lead readers to expect a story will deliver particular facts. Yesterday’s Big Story domina … more →
So, What Happened?
: wrote 1 year ago: DeSoto Sun’s John Lawhorne reports Arcadia City Council listened to a lot of negative feedback … more →
Geographically Challenged
: wrote 1 year ago: Apparently, there are no maps at DeSoto High School and no culture of “check it before you sen … more →
Intern Abuse
: wrote 1 year ago: Newspaper interns traditionally trade their cheap labor for the experience of learning journalism fi … more →
Surprise, Surprise
: wrote 1 year ago: The general idea is a headline should reflect the story beneath it. In a similar fashion, an opening … more →
Amateur Reporting Makes Company Look Bad
: wrote 1 year ago: Old Word Wolf hopes the journalism interns next summer get better guidance from Charlotte-Sun’ … more →
Why Two Grown-ups Should Read the Headlines
: wrote 1 year ago: Caseworkers find four children dead in a Washington, D.C., home and Charlotte Sun page designers tri … more →
Why It's Never a Good Idea to Lay Off Copy Editors
: wrote 1 year ago: Copy editors do more than fix erratic spelling and grammar. Their expertise goes deeper than redirec … more →
It's Not a Lot of News, But It's All We've Got
: wrote 2 years ago: Don’t bury the lead. Today’s Big Story, splashed across the local front this sunny Sunday morning, i … more →
School Reporting Means Asking Questions, not Cheerleading
: wrote 2 years ago: Our local school district, the DeSoto Editor reports, is planning to apply for a grant that might br … more →
No News is Good News II
: wrote 2 years ago: The state released a scathing report Monday detailing shortcomings in an organization – the YMCA no … more →
Two-Headed Monster Escapes DeSoto Newsroom
: wrote 2 years ago: .You really don’t want to read this. Basically, two writers got together and tried to create the day … more →
