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Edit copy, don’t just tweak
By JOE GRIMM Does anybody really edit? Do editors edit, or are they just spitting in the wind? Writing coach Jack Hart says that the problem with most writing in most newspapers is that editors don’t...
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Facebook: sneaky multimedia teacher
Section of a Facebook friend wheelBy JOE GRIMM Some of my fellow faculty members at the Michigan State University School of Journalism and I believe that Facebook is teaching our students Web skills....
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Keep jargon out of your journalism
By JOE GRIMM Tear a page out of your Journalism 101 textbook and it says not to use jargon. Police, courts and government are well known sources of the stuff, so even the newest reporters knew which...
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Quickchés: New source of tired writing
By JOE GRIMM “Avoid clichés like the plague.” How many times have you heard that one? And why don’t we? Don’t believe newspapers are cliché-ridden? Maybe you’re thinking of the trite and true, such as...
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Please, no journalese
By JOE GRIMM Neither clichés nor jargon, journalese is the peculiar language that news writers have evolved for talking to readers. Unchecked, it can read like this: “Negotiators yesterday, in an...
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