One of Hazlitt’s most popular pieces is also one of its most hated. Last July, the Random House of Canada online publication ran “How to make love in America,” a 3,619-word personal account by Sarah Nicole Prickett about her transience in her 20s. The piece had no interviews, no research and no original reporting. It… Continue reading Journalism’s empty calories: why some personal essays leave us feeling guilty
Review: Times plagiarist neither damned nor redeemed by new doc
“Why did you do it?” It’s a fitting opening to a documentary about a plagiarist, considering it’s usually the first question asked of people like Jayson Blair—who, as a reporter for The New York Times, plagiarized or fabricated more than 30 articles. The scandal, known as the “Blair Affair,” is the subject of Samantha… Continue reading Review: Times plagiarist neither damned nor redeemed by new doc
Friday Funny: someone built a website to prove that clickbait headlines are ruining journalism. You won’t believe what happened next.
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Kamloops—pop. 85,000—loses its only daily paper
The decline and fall of local newspapers continued earlier this week as Glacier Media Inc. announced that it is closing The Kamloops Daily News after 80 years in print. While the last year has seen the death of several free large-market dailies and small-market community papers, John Hinds of Newspapers Canada* told The Vancouver Sun… Continue reading Kamloops—pop. 85,000—loses its only daily paper
Friday Funny: the tastiest headline of 2013
Just like how movie studios release their Oscar bait in December, it seems the last few weeks of the year have yielded a disproportionate amount of funny corrections, headlines or tweets. Craig Silverman’s year-end round-up is as good as always, but he may have published it too early. He missed, among other things, this correction… Continue reading Friday Funny: the tastiest headline of 2013
