MediaGuardian: Monkey goes to the Society of Editors conference
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:34
"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey - there's hope for us all."
Saturday, 7 June 2008, 16:06
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Errr… spot the error: "Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple’s standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that’s kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos."
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:48
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Divided by a common jargon? Peter Wilby on the FT’s term for what American journalists often call the "nut graf": "the bollocks par". "This is apparently the paragraph, high up in a news story, which is supposed to explain its significance."
Saturday, 19 April 2008, 10:01
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"[Facebook's] new application Lexicon culls words and phrases from users’ walls to create fun charts. In the ‘party tonight’ ‘hangover’ match-up, the latter curiously tends to spike shorty after the former."
