Editor makes prize from mistakes

Just heard this funny bit from StoryCorps, a nonprofit project that collects stories told by ordinary people. And, in case you copy editors were wondering, the name is indeed one word with a capital "C."

In this story, a retired Miami News editor explains what happened when a pre-printed section turned out to contain several factual errors. He also provides some advice for would-be journalists.

E&P does a big, bad boo-boo

(T)wat the? Just got this from a journalist friend. Hope they correct it soon, or they'll turn off a lot of people, including some Tweeters!

Below is copy I copied and pasted directly from the E&P Pub, which is a site related to Editor and Publisher, the biggest journalist mag out there.

Now They Tell Us

We just started tweeting with all the other twats, and now we see this new video...

Update: They just changed it to "twits." I guess that's better.

March 23, 2009

Now They Tell Us

We just started tweeting with all the other twits, and now we see this new video..

And then there's this, which shows Stephen Colbert on the Today show.

Crank wins award

The following lead is from a story in today's Mirror, UNC's student newspaper, written by my former student, Eric Heinz.

Known for her grueling, but rewarding, journalism classes, Lynn Klyde-Silverstein, an assistant professor for UNC's Journalism and Mass Communications program, was recently awarded Educator of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists' Colorado Chapter.

What kind of system allows someone like me to win an award like this? Have to stay cranky, just to keep up the old reputation.