…make better computer keyboards? Few journalists maintain as engaging (and entertaining) a blog as James Fallows, the national correspondent of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. In one recent entry, Fallows writes on the state of the keyboard of his seven-month-old laptop computer after just three months of use. “Now entirely gone: the E, N, A keys,…
Daily Archives: 4 December 2007
Canadian fellowship for Commonwealth journos
PRESS RELEASE: The Commonwealth Press Union is now inviting applications for the Gordon Fisher Fellowship which offers one Commonwealth journalist from a developing country the chance to spend an academic year at Massey College, Toronto University, Canada. The deadline for applications is 16 February 2008. The target delegate is a senior journalist probably aged 35+…
Five ways to make magazine websites better
India Today has just redesigned its website. Unfortunately, you wouldn’t know that unless they slapped each paragraph with that sentence for the next few weeks. Because after all the effort, it still just looks like old wine in an old bottle. But it isn’t a peculiarly Indian problem. Jon Friedman writes that while most magazines…
‘A newspaper isn’t just about news, supplements’
Peter Wright, editor, Mail on Sunday: “Any editor who believes he can sell his newspaper entirely on news and that magazines, supplements, promotions and yes, CDs and DVDs, are simply embarrassments imposed on them by commercial management is not going to succeed. “Any editor who wants his paper still to be here in 2020 needs…
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