Crystal Borde posted this on July 22nd, 2010
Everyone can be a photo editor in this age of inexpensive digital cameras and a variety of tools available for altering photographs. In the newsroom, however, some photo editing can do more harm than good.
Recently, The Economist took heat for a Gulf Coast oil spill cover that featured an isolated President Obama standing at [...]
Rachael Siefert posted this on June 3rd, 2010
One thing that we have all learned is that mistakes happen. However, there is one type of mistake that I cannot accept – typos. I’m one of those people who find typos everywhere – magazines, newspapers, websites, books, etc. I’m an avid reader and when I find a mistake in a book it stops me [...]
Rachael Siefert posted this on May 27th, 2010
Anyone that sat in a class with me at some point in my life would have noticed one thing about me – I wrote very fast and would never read over my work when I finished. While a lot of my classmates commented on how strange this was, it always worked for me. That’s why [...]
Crystal Borde posted this on February 18th, 2010
I know, not everyone is Bill Gates. Very few people on the planet can gain 100,000 followers on Twitter eight hours after launching their Twitter profile.
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But perhaps we should start thinking like Bill.
Using his newly formed Twitter community, Gates recently launched his newest endeavor, The Gates Notes, where he will [...]