Tag: newspapers
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Check This Out!
Write It Long, But Well By Michael O. Allen It’s about newspapers and news writing: By all means, get rid of slipshod, encrusted and encumbered conventional political writing (even as I needlessly encumber my sentence). Does doing this necessarily lead to shorter news stories? Shorn of the “conventions that don’t add to your understanding of…
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an ode to a great guy and a great editor
I arrived at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont 20 years ago almost to the day. I stayed in Vermont for almost two years, first visiting frequently after leaving, then those visits peterring out to where I have not been to Vermont in several years now. As it turned out, my Vermont time was a…