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Showing posts with label subbing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subbing. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

When both reporter and copy editor screw up big-time

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Page 3 of Bangalore Times today — that should be "greenbacks" ( a colloquial term for the US dollar ), not "green bags...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

When subs fall asleep on the job

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From today's  Times of India a. In an interview with labour minister Parameshwara Naik by Sandeep Moudgal on Page 4: " Th...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Every writer needs an editor. Or, why subs are worth their weight in gold

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I am a huge, huge fan of Poynter. In my opinion, it is the No. 1 journalism site. Which is why there are numerous pieces on The Reading Room...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

10 interesting — and relevant — articles to inspire media professionals, especially young journalists and journalism aspirants

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1. "The best farewell address by a journalist": ‘At The [NY] Times, you can imagine yourself making journalism that changes the...
Friday, April 10, 2015

All hail the Comma Queen!

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When a copy editor of the Salon e-zine chats up the copy editor of New Yorker magazine who also happens to have published a book about her ...
Friday, July 25, 2014

And this is what happens when subs fall asleep on the job

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This news report — see below — was printed in the now-defunct Vijay Times , a Bangalore newspaper, on December 26, 2003. I use it every ye...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Are subs a disappearing breed? Is that why there are so many typos in our newspapers? Also: How do Times group journalists deal with Medianet?

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Here's Meenal Baghel, the founder and editor in chief of the Mirror ( Mumbai Mirror, Bangalore Mirror, etc.), responding to a question ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

"A good copy editor is a reporter’s best friend"

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The role of the copy editor in the newsroom remains an adversarial one. There’s no getting round that; copy editing requires critical analy...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

What it means to be a newspaper sub-2

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In What it means to be a newspaper sub-1 , Commits alumnus Debmalya Dutta (Class of 2011) offered personal insights into the duties and resp...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What it means to be a newspaper sub-1

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DEBMALYA DUTTA Commits alumnus DEBMALYA DUTTA (Class of 2011), who is a sub-editor with The Statesman in Kolkata, offers personal insig...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Top 10 reasons why EDITING is cool

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(10) It's like solving a puzzle. (9)  You find a whole world of other people who go crazy over the "10 items or less" sign i...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

Why subs, or copy editors, are the lifeblood of a news organisation

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Few readers, perhaps, know of the existence of subs, who play a crucial role in newspaper production. It is the sub-editor, now also known a...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

When a writer spews venom at subs

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GILES COREN A majority of writers are philosophical about the changes subs make in their copy, but some writers go ballistic when that h...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Sloppy subbing/house style

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1. DNA (Bangalore), August 26 Page 12: Pullout quote in first editorial Vedanta has got its just desserts , but we need greater transparen...