A really nice example of an “elephant in the living room” typo, from Bill Bennett’s Knowledge Workers’ blog. As with investigative journalists, you’ll miss the sub-editors when we’re gone. Won’t stop them getting rid of us though…
The Mail on Sunday‘s Facebook/MI6 revelations are something of a digital media wet dream, combining espionage, social networking and Nazi historians in a way that is almost the highbrow version of Friday’s midget/wrestling/hooker fest. There’s a lot going on here of interest – and it’s worth coming back to. But for now, though, it’s enough […]
Midgets, hookers, wrestling: seriously – what more could a sub ask for?
I didn’t manage to get this cutting into the blog until today, but this item from the June 17 edition of London financial free paper City A.M. is a stark warning about the perils of doing without a sub-editor. I like City A.M. – for a freebie it’s a well-put-together paper for the financial/business world […]
The first in a no doubt ongoing series, (which also happens to combine my hobby and my day job). A bout of insomnia had me watching Channel 4 at an ungodly hour this morning. I managed to catch the second half of Psyche and Eros – an animated retelling of the ancient Greek myth (god […]
I poked fun at my local Surrey & Hants News recently for its slightly random headlines, but sometimes local papers get it just right. This one made me smile – it’s punning and jokey, but tells you all you really need to know…
Nice headline from my local Surrey & Hants News this week – which is apparently “Surrey’s oldest newspaper”, and which seems to be run by a team of five that includes no editorial staff. So – does he think it’s facing the wrong way? Maybe he doesn’t like the view towards West Sussex…
There’s more to sub-editing than shuffling commas around and checking spelling (vital, obviously, though these things are). And it’s something that it seems the subs at the otherwise admirable Financial Times seem to have forgotten yesterday. Bear with me – digression first. I find these days there’s a tendency for people to use proverbs, idioms […]
Apparently desk editors at the Independent are to take on subbing duties at the paper, according to a Guardian story from April 1. That’s the sort of thing that should be an April Fool’s Day joke – but I found out it wasn’t when I was unlucky enough to buy a copy of the Indie on Easter Saturday […]
Interesting post on the FT’s Alphaville blog [from last week, but I’ve only just caught up with it]. Reuters files a story based on an FT interview with Luo Ping, a director-general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission. In the course of it, Mr Luo passes comment on the current US policy of monetary loosening: Mr […]