This list from Mark Potts (of “Recovering Journalist) is just the thing I needed in order to motivate me to ask my students to think of the online version of the paper as the primary product, and the print version a useful offshoot. (At present, the reverse is true.) What would you do if you…
Wilfred M. McClay: The humanities are imprecise by their very nature. But that does not mean they are a form of intellectual finger-painting. The knowledge they convey is not a rough, preliminary substitute for what psychology, chemistry, molecular biology, and physics will eventually resolve with greater finality. They are an accurate reflection of the subject…
Language Log has a good post on a phrase that I’ve seen cropping up increasingly in journalism: Person of interest, called a “euphemism for a suspect” by the National Association of Police Chiefs, is now routinely used in investigations of all types, from murders to brush fires. Donna Shaw, writing in the American Journalism Review…