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Links for Monday, September 29, 2008
by Adam Kuban
- BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Editor 2.0
Jeff Jarvis says: "Connect these dots to create the job description of the 21st century editor." Missed this when he first wrote it; just saw it via the link below.
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- The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader
"There was a time when it must have been hard to imagine getting more news to choose from than what the wires brought publishers each day. That time has passed and while the small Midwestern US newspapers that the AP highlights as happy users of the Marketplace may be on board – it's hard to say how for how long readers will remain excited about AP fueled news websites. Especially once they discover a little more about how the internet works. (We don't mean to be critical of Mid Westerners, they were just the demographic of several AP demo sites.)"
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- What My Copy Editor Taught Me
A sweet, heartfelt essay by Dorothy Gallagher on the woman who taught her how to edit: "Helene had no literary theories — she had literary values. She valued clarity and transparency. She had nothing against style, if it didn’t distract from the material. Her blue pencil struck at redundancy, at confusion, at authorial vanity, at the wrong and the false word, at the unearned conclusion. She loved good writing, therefore she loved the reader: good writing did not cause the reader to stumble over meaning. By the time Helene was finished with me seven years later, I knew how to read a sentence and how to fix one. I knew what a sentence was supposed to do. I began to write my own sentences; needless to say, the responsibility for them is my own."
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