Fiction
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My early 2014 reading list
It feels a bit like cheating, but my 2014 reading list includes books that I’ve started in the past. In fact, one of them (Green Mars) I started reading as far back as 2011 and just never finished. It just stares at me from my bookshelf like an abandoned puppy, making me feel guilty. I’ve…
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The world’s worst job? Hardly.
January 13, 2014 edit: I’ve since transitioned into a job in communications. Recently, I’ve watched a very good daily newspaper (The Kamloops Daily News) get shut down because it wasn’t making enough money. I stand firm that newspaper reporting is not the world’s worst job, but I also affirm that it seems to be one…
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A nifty visual timeline of AP Style changes
Being a newspaper style geek, I found this visual timeline of changes to The Associated Press Stylebook pretty cool. The first entry is the June 1980 debut of ‘Ms.,’ and the latest change (as of this entry) is AP’s decision to redefine the use of the word “Islamists.” I like the June 10, 2010, change…
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A lesson in multimedia journalism
Award-winning multimedia journalist Carrie Ching has been testing the bounds of journalistic storytelling for years. In one of her more talked about productions, Ching produced an illustrated video to tell the story of Jennifer — a mentally disabled girl, who was raped and became pregnant while she was a patient at a California developmental centre.…
David Wylie 