Links from Friday, April 10, 2009 to Tuesday, April 14, 2009

by Adam Kuban

  • The Quality-Control Quandary [American Journalism Review]
    "However, [Baltimore Sun copy desk director John E.] McIntyre points out a 'grim advantage' for the Sun and other papers. For print, at least, there is less copy to edit. The paper, he says, has lost about a third of its staff in the past few years and almost that much newshole."
  • Journos Alienating Readers With ‘Retro’ References [E&P]
    A warning to journalists of a certain age to stop using retro talk—references to Leave It to Beaver, Imelda Marcos, Joe Friday. Maureen Dowd crowned "Queen of Retro Talk."
  • Extreme borrowing in the blogosphere [Kottke]
    "What ends up happening is that blogs like Boing Boing—and I'm very much not picking on BB here…this is a very common and accepted practice in the blogosphere—provide so much of the gist and actual text of the thing they're pointing to that readers often don't end up clicking through to the original."