A Toronto Star editor takes the red pen to a memo from management announcing the mass sacking of the newspaper’s editorial staff.
It begs the question, how does the paper hope to manage without them?
The Toronto Star needs its editors more than ever
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 November, 2009 to the comment subset
Errors and excerpts excepted
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 24 July, 2008 to the comment subset
If you are quoting from a blog or forum post (as I do frequently) do you, or should you, correct spelling and grammar errors?
If the “error” was such that it significantly altered the context of the excerpt, then maybe I would. (And hope it wasn’t noticed?)
Would you contact the person who made the comments [...]
Today’s writing tip: scratch out don’t stretch out
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 to the comment subset
Kurt Vonnegut: don’t waste your readers precious time writing words that are of no value to them…
It may be that you, too, are capable of making necklaces for Cleopatra, so to speak. But your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter [...]
