Could you ever write something in a library book?
Life lessons learned in primary school stick in the mind. It’s important to looks after books, for instance…
Author: Renee Moodie
Five different kinds of editing
There are different kinds of editors, who do different things to text. Here’s a quick guide to the main ways something you write might be changed…
Enough with the water restrictions – let’s try something else
We have been fully supportive of our municipality in its efforts to stave off the day when the dams run dry. But now I have had enough.
A must-read about what it means to be a journalist
When I was a full-time journalist, I kept an eye on news and views about my industry – and did more of that as the years wore on and it became apparent that my industry was in Big Trouble. Now that I am a freelancer and am able have a bit more of a flexible approach to how I use my working hours, I have a bunch of feeds I use to keep an eye…
Carmageddon may be coming – but what about wetsuits?
When a friend shared an article entitled Carmageddon is Coming on Facebook, I read it with interest, and some irritation. The sub-heading of the article says humanity is “on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruption in transport history”. Writer Angus Hervey lays out what he thinks is going to happen to the transport industry over the next few years, courtesy of three technological waves: • Our ability to summon a car and…
What it means to be a copy editor
The world of the copy editor and proofreader is dense with detail, fraught with finickiness, complicated by comma rage.
Thoughts on web design: it begins with an article
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an editor in possession of a new website (or a newspaper) must be in want of a redesign. The Jane Austen phrasing was irresistible, but this is one of the true certainties of journalism: when a publication gets a new editor, he or she will want it to look different. When I was a print journalist I live through three different redesigns. And in my time in online…