Category: Editing How to be a good editor
Journalism ‘legals’: Renee’s golden rules
For reporters and sub-editors, legal issues can be a nightmare. This handy guide will help you make those first line-of-defence decisions.
Editors make mistakes, too
I mis-spelt a word on Twitter today – conumdrum, instead of conundrum. Not the end of the world, and in the Twitter flow no one but me noticed (I hope). But it makes me unhappy when I get things wrong (especially when I do know the right spelling). And that is one of the foundations of editing, I guess: the striving to make things right.
How to be a good editor
Journalism ‘legals’: Renee’s golden rules
For reporters and sub-editors, legal issues can be a nightmare. This handy guide will help you make those first line-of-defence decisions.
Editors make mistakes, too
I mis-spelt a word on Twitter today – conumdrum, instead of conundrum. Not the end of the world, and in the Twitter flow no one but me noticed (I hope). But it makes me unhappy when I get things wrong (especially when I do know the right spelling). And that is one of the foundations of editing, I guess: the striving to make things right.