Tag Archives: writing
Not since the Greeks...
We are in the middle of a literacy revolution, the like of which has not been since since the Greeks invented writing in the first place, says Standford writing and rhetoric professor Andrea Lunsford.
Posted in New Media, Social Networking, The Human Condition Also tagged Andrea Lunsford, Clive Thompson, composition, education, New Media, Social Networking, wired Comments closed
News scripts available online
A number of news stations across the country make their scripts available to the public. Here’s a list of some that I found. They might be handy to study later as we write our own scripts.
NBC2 News in Fort Meyers, Fla.
WCAX in Vermont
WCHS, an ABC affiliate in Charleston, W.Va.
Scripts are, of course, different than transcripts. [...]
Mervin Block
In today’s research, I came across the Web site for Mervin Block, a veteran television news writer who has written for all three major networks and for anchors like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Charles Kuralt.
I’ll be pulling some pithy and useful blog posts out of his site this afternoon and tomorrow, but I thought [...]
In which the author summarizes the authority-based tweet debate and then finds something new to write about
Well, the issue of authority-based searching on Twitter is here to stay, even though Loic Le Meur, the guy who started all of this by asking for some sort of authority search feature on his blog, has amended his opinion. He points out now that “authority” was a poor word choice that resulted from the [...]
Posted in Authority Issues, Social Networking Also tagged authority, CNN, Kara Swisher, search, TechCrunch, twitter Comments closed
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