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On Michael Kinsley’s short news ideas and being continued

By Michael Becker | Published: January 6, 2010
Michael Kinsley wants news writing to get to the point. Lots of people think he's being too simplistic. I think we should use some kind of "to be continued" construction.
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Save early and save often

By Michael Becker | Published: October 23, 2009
Lesson learned: If a pro­gram offers you the oppor­tu­nity to autosave your work for you, if only you’d take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it. Don’t, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, think­ing that Final Cut Pro is sav­ing your [...]
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Will large-scale aggregation erase newspaper brands?

By Michael Becker | Published: April 2, 2009
I’ve been read­ing for quite a while that aggre­ga­tion will be the next big thing online. News sites will no longer con­tain just the sto­ries that your local reporters in the news­room across town filed last night — they can’t afford to. They’ll con­tain links to the best report­ing and infor­ma­tion on a sub­ject, regard­less [...]
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