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What it was, was football
Comparing front pages is a good way to teach students that page design reflects a publication's personality. And when the No. 1 college football team loses the big game, personality takes on fresh energy. Take a look at how a few newspapers handled Florida's drubbing of Ohio State in this year's national championship game.
Jan. 11, 2007
'Ford to City: Drop Dead'
Former President Gerald Ford, who died Dec. 26, inspired that headline back in 1975 when he refused to use federal aid to bail out New York City from its fiscal crisis. Read the story behind the headline and the man who wrote it.
Dec. 27, 2006
Best 'Crunks' of the year
Regret the Error has dubbed 2006 the Year of the Belated Apology in its annual roundup of the year's best corrections. And the Correction of the Year goes to ....
Dec. 11, 2006
Online journalist looks a lot like a copy editor
If you ask online journalists what skills are more important in an online newsroom, what you'll hear are the attributes that largely define a copy editor. C. Max Magee, a graduate student at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, asked exactly that question, and his results have been released by the Online News Association. Top skills: attention to detail, news judgment, grammar, multitasking, dealing with deadlines. As Medill professor Rich Gordon says, "the traditional journalism job that most resembles online newsroom roles is that of copy editor."
Nov. 2, 2006