Despite appearance this blog is not dead, merely resting. (As Dad used to say, I wasn’t sleeping, just resting my eyes). There are several reasons for the paucity of posts over the past couple of months. School is one. Teaching a new-to-me course on feature writing this semester, as well as a fairly intensive multimedia [...]
Back when I slung words for a living, I spent as much time as anyone lamenting the inverted pyramid. It’s part of the newsroom culture to deride the beast as soul-destroying, not-real writing and just plain ugly. But I’ve crossed over to the heretical side when it comes to the combination of summary lede and [...]
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