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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 [...] July 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Adobe Photoshop, altering photographs, BP, British Petroleum, communication, design, design & editorial, digital photography, Gulf Coast, Media Relations, NY Times.com, Obama, oil spill, online media, Photography, public relations, Steve Mufson, The Economist, Treehugger.com, washington post | Categories: Advertising & Promotion, Design & Editorial, Media Relations
2 comments | Share: Like a kid on her birthday, I always get excited about the release of the latest edition of the AP Stylebook. I love searching for new entries to find out how our use of language has evolved. In fact, I still have my very first wire-bound edition from journalism school, and it’s fun to see [...] June 7th, 2010 | Tags: AP Stylebook, defriend, editing, Facebook, Great Recession, journalism, journalists, liveblog, mashup, social media, social networking, Twitter, unfriend, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
Leave a comment | Share: 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 [...] June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: accuracy, communication, editing, proofreading, typos, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
2 comments | Share: 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 [...] May 27th, 2010 | Tags: communication, editing, speed, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
2 comments | Share: 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. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndevil/ / CC BY 2.0 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 [...] February 18th, 2010 | Tags: advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, blogging, CEO, ethical dilemma, ethics, Facebook, Gates Foundation, Gates Notes, InSites, newsletter, Online Marketing, personal, persuasive storytelling, PR, PR-Squared, public relations, Shift Communications, social change, Social Marketing, social media, social networking, Strategic Planning, Tom Defren, Twitter | Categories: Design & Editorial, Integrated Media Services, Online Marketing, Social Marketing, Strategic Planning, Training & TA, Uncategorized
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