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A blog about English language use, publishing and the media in general – brought to you by a sub-editor (copy editor) on a weekly UK magazine and his former chief sub.
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Recent Posts Tagged With 'newspaper'
A search for subs
Susan Keith, a former newspaper copy editor who now teaches journalism at Rutgers University in New Jersey, is conducting a research project into "the ongoing evolution of newspaper sub editing/copy editing jobs in the English-speaking world".However...
Whites searched 'for race balance'. Did they find it?
My first thought on seeing Metro's main front page headline today was: 'So did they find it?'As it turns out, 'whites' is the object, not the subject, of the headline (which is written in the passive voice).(UPDATE 19/07/09: As Garik points out in th...
Nicolae Ceausescu and the newspaper sub
Back in 1989 (when I'd already been in the engine room for a year or two) I took no more than passing note of the popular uprising that led to the overthrow and execution of Romanian Communist head of state Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena.It's ...
