Without grammar, your haiku would fall to pieces. I think I’ll tweet that. The National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest is back. Nearly 180 poems were entered into last year’s contest. They were brilliant. Even picking the best 10 was very difficult. But, National Grammar Day falls on a Sunday this year, so the organizers [...]
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March forth and write haiku to celebrate National Grammar Day
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Don’t discount the editor when the focus is ‘online-first’
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Newspapers have been quick to tell us about the latest trends and help us prepare for a changing world. But they’ve been amazingly slow to recognize the changes that are necessary to remain relevant. And now, as newspapers finally enter the 21st century, “online-first” operations risk losing what made them great in the first place: [...]
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