Mini-rant:
Someone needs to explain to me why there’s not a plug-in grammar/spelling module for Microsoft Word that uses the information from the Associated Press Stylebook.
Leaving aside the madness that is “fund-raiser” and its related words, I have to look up the correct way to list gun calibers and such every single time. It’d be nice to have it either auto-correct me or have that green squiggly line and a right click to explain the correct AP style.
Microsoft, AP, get on this!
This may be the biggest thing with newspapers and the Web yet. Today, January 2, the Wall Street Journal is free, both online and on paper. And you’ll want to check them both out, because they’re no longer identical products.
The Journal’s staff figured out that they could never compete with the real-time aspect of the Internet as far as breaking news in the paper goes, so they decided to stop worrying about it. From now on, all breaking news will be on the Internet only, while the paper edition will be nothing but longer analysis pieces.
This is brilliant. By offering two different products in two different places, Journal readers have a reason to read both products, so the advertisers will want to be in both places. The split products now play to their individual strengths.
More importantly, I think this is a model that can work for every daily. Given the Journal’s visibility, if this takes off, I bet we’ll have a cascade effect and see every major daily doing this within two years.
When you slip a ninja joke into a headline, it’s time to go home for the evening.
I’m glad Peter’s getting this vacation — he certainly deserves it — but I didn’t realize just how hard his job is as editor.
Originally published in the December 19, 2006 edition of the Hesperia Star.
With both parents in Iraq, 20-year-old Hesperian raises her four sisters alone
Twenty-year-old Audrey Delgadillo doesn’t go to parties. She doesn’t spend her time hanging out with her friends. She doesn’t stay out late and wake up late the next morning. Audrey is raising her four younger sisters while her mother and stepfather are serving in Iraq.
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As you may have seen in today’s Daily Press (the article isn’t online, other than in the epaper), a decision has been reached in the battle between the two rival pageant organizations each claiming the right to hold the Miss Hesperia, Miss Apple Valley and Miss Victorville pageants, with the original owner of the names, Empire Pageants, winning the battle.
In case you missed the previous stories on the subject, here’s a round-up of the Star’s coverage:
Who knew that me covering the Miss Virginia pageant years ago would turn into a series of stories 3,000 miles away?
- Also in today’s Daily Press (but also not on the Web site, so you’ll have to check out the epaper) is a profile by Hillary Borrud of my cats’ vet, Dr. Ahmed of Hesperia Animal Hospital. Great, great vet and a great guy. His care for 20-year-old Motley Sue will forever endear him to me. And I recommend him wholeheartedly: He’s not cheap, but you get great value for your dollar.
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