One of the most popular posts of 2008 was “What Comes After a Career at a Newspaper?” If you’ve found a new role or started a new business after taking a buyout or being laid off last year, leave a comment to let people know what you’re up to. We’ll also add you to the [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: bars, facebook, freelance, fun, jobs
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- January 15, 2009 – 9:00 am
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- By Chrys
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- October 2, 2008 – 11:28 pm
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- By Chrys
One of the brilliant things about the Web is that a story can be told many different ways. Earlier this year, British publisher Penguin Group asked six authors to each create an online homage to a notable work of literature. Each tale used a different aspect of Web storytelling as the medium. The result was [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: fun, ideas, innovation
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- July 18, 2008 – 11:54 pm
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- By Chrys
Pulitzer prize-winner Gene Weingarten wrote a funny ode to copy editors in his Sunday column for the Washington Post.
From start to finish, it’s an entertaining frolic that defends the craft. Editors and management should read it and think twice about slashing entire copy desks when layoff time comes around.
Weingarten won acclaim for his 2007 profile [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: editing, fun, humor
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- June 27, 2008 – 6:06 pm
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- By Chrys
While election coverage may be on hiatus, speculation on who will be our next president is about to run wild.
Sean Connelley of the Los Angeles Times created an interactive, embeddable map that lets you test different electoral vote scenarios.
Think Wisconsin will go to McCain? Click and the state turns red. Believe the die-hard Democrats and [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, Games, One For Fun
Tagged: election, fun, Games, politics
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- June 7, 2008 – 9:09 am
- Author:
- By Chrys
(Photo by TheMacDiva/Flickr)
The Yahoo takeover fund.
Categories: Photojournalism
Tagged: fun, humor
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- May 5, 2008 – 10:08 pm
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- By Chrys
Ricochet’s hed-to-hed competition went neck and neck, with a near photo-finish between two entrants. In the end, the headlines by Jenny Cromie took the tape.
Contest judge Matthew Crowley had some funny, instructive advice in his assessment:
All of Jenny’s were complete and accurate and summarized their stories.
The Marriott headline used all of those p’s to sonic [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: contest, fun
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- April 23, 2008 – 8:13 pm
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- By Chrys
Las Vegas Review-Journal copy editor Matthew Crowley has graciously agreed to judge Ricochet’s headline writing competition.
Crowley won the American Copy Editors Society “Best Headlines of the Year” contest in the newspapers with circulations between 100,001 and 250,000 category.
Judges gave his work special citation, saying:
In a time when newspapers need more than ever to shake off [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: contest, fun
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- April 16, 2008 – 6:28 pm
- Author:
- By Chrys
Is This What Cable News Has Been Reduced To? 0
A friend who loves news but isn’t in the news business forwarded this to me. It’s a pretty dead-on, yet sad commentary on the state of cable news.
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: broadcast, cable, commentary, fun, humor