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A little more for the Waco employees to chew over ... http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2009/08/01/RobinsonFrontpage.html "In God We Trust" got the play on Romenesko, but the real message from the new boss got overlooked. Some excerpts: "The Waco Tribune-Herald ...

Before ya'll get too excited, read again Robinson's quotes about coverage of Baylor. You don't have to read much between the lines to understand that coverage of Baylor (both athletics and university) just got a lot less aggressive. And with Baylor setting the tone for so much in Waco, I'm not...

Phoenix < Globe "reliable source" < "union leaders" three grafs and a memo quote < a fully reported story

A better source, the Globe itself: http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/04/times_co_threat.html

Not Webster's New World College Dictionary?

Not a single content producer (er, writer) there. I'm seeing this trend coming my way, too. Next up for extinction are those folks who know how to report but can't write particularly well.

Did you guys click the link right below that quote? What you're citing is just the intro. Here's the full story. Dunno Armstrong and Perry, but they got a lot of good stuff. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004147460_rbstevens270.html

Just wondering: Isn't it time to bury the one-week tryout for copy editors? It jacks with the applicant -- making her choose whether to disclose prematurely that she's looking around, or to lie to the boss (not to mention taking the one-week of vacation) -- and it's not usually that helpful to...

Geez, how many columnists does the Chron have now? Justice, Solomon, Campbell, John Lopez, Dale Robertson, David Barron ... Anybody left there to actually report the news instead of opine on it?

For the organized editor who can't talk the missus/mister into Fargo ... From JJobs: Company: The Garden Island Position: Sports editor Location: Lihue, Hawaii Job Status: Full-time Salary: $35,000 to $40,000 Ad Expires: October 11, 2007 Job ID: 825239 Description: Daily newspaper on...

An absolute gem from WaPo's Eli Saslow, who traveled halfway around the world to get a great story. A lot of folks might have tried to write this out of your standard-issue inner-city high school football factory, but it wouldn't have as much resonance. Here it's not a few blocks of blight and...

I'm with Write-brained: Papers are still doing kick-ass journalism that is changing lives for the better (Walter Reed, to name one such package). That's what brought me into the business in the first place, so that's all the good news I need. As long as the flame still burns, I'm staying in the...

Part 3, where Big deck undermines what even the president wants: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html I understand ripping the Post for waiting so long to do this story, but if that was the price to get so many on-the-record quotes, it was a...

Oh, goodness -- so many responses, so little time: First of all, what everyone seems to be reading as a rip is skepticism. I was hoping folks would chime in with some of his greatest hits, rather than a round of the "great hire" chorus, but no luck, it seems. I'm with you, SCEditor -- don't...

Mizzou, are you talking about the Daily Oklahoman guy? If so, why would that be a great hire? Dude has spent his entire career in the Dust Bowl, in towns that care only about football -- not exactly a career track that hints at greatness in the People's Republic of Eugene, where basketball...