Archive for July, 2009
Lots to understand about teen media use
Interest in the report authored by U.K. teen Matthew Robson says a lot about how much we fret over how young people consume media. London-based market research firm Morgan Stanley published the report, authored by their 15-year-old intern, last week. As the Globe and Mail reports today, the paper, “How Teenagers Consume Media,” has since [...]
XHTML 2, we hardly knew ya
I don’t teach much HTML anymore. But, as background to my journalism instruction, I’ve been talking up the benefits of XHTML to my students for a couple of years now. It brought rigour to HTML, encouraging cleaner markup, broader standards and generally a loftier vision for structuring content on the web. The journalism students who [...]
Copyediting 2.0
The Washington Post’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, reported yesterday that readers are getting increasingly upset over the number of typos, formatting mistakes and grammatical errors in news stories. He cites, for example, references to a “Democratically” (instead of Democrat-) controlled Congress and the Marine “Corp” (instead of Corps). Alexander blames the Post’s layoff of copy editors [...]
Authored by Tim Currie, Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the