Shaplen to work with JFreshmen Newsroom
by Robert Stewart, Director; Professor
The man who was once news assistant to Walter Cronkite will be working with Ohio University first year journalism students taking part in the experimental “JFreshmen Newsroom.”
Freelance producer Peter Shaplen, along with JSchool Prof. Bob Stewart, will work with students in the special section of JOUR101. Students in the course will create online content about the topic of one of their first courses: “Journalism & Society.” Their target audience will be the 200-plus JSchool freshmen enrolled in the regular JOUR101, and anyone else interested in the changes going on in the media sector.
posted in: freshmen
August 25, 2009 | comments (0)
The New Art (sigh) of Headline Writing
by Michael Sweeney, Professor; Associate Director for Graduate Studies
The Web is erasing a fine, old, delicate art: The crafting of a good headline.
Headlines that appear in print publications are incredibly hard to write well. They must say something engaging, yet fit the allotted space. It’s no good to have a clever headline that won’t fit the six inches or so of white space above a three-column story on the front page.
August 12, 2009 | comments (0)
Test Yourself on AP Style
by Michael Sweeney, Professor; Associate Director for Graduate Studies
If you’d like to see how well you know Associated Press style, try taking this test without looking in the stylebook.
INSTRUCTIONS: Find the errors. Each sentence contains zero, one or two errors addressed by the AP Stylebook. If the sentence is correct as written and this were an actual test, you would not change it. (Leaving it correct as written would give you full credit for that sentence.) Do not delete information unless it is redundant.
posted in: Associated Press
August 5, 2009 | comments (0)
Answers to AP self-test
by Michael Sweeney, Professor; Associate Director for Graduate Studies
Answers to the AP practice exercise.
1. He ate 15 doughnuts at the fair. (OK as written)
posted in: Associated Press
August 5, 2009 | comments (0)
My Guide to AP Style
by Michael Sweeney, Professor; Associate Director for Graduate Studies
(Note: Versions of this page have been linked to editing sites at dozens of American universities. The author is a writer for the National Geographic Press and a former copy desk chief at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.)
As you read the AP Stylebook, pay extra attention to these entries:
