Yeah, but did Lincoln write that thing in 35 minutes after a Sunday night NFL game?
We've gone to the smaller broadsheet page size, so it's slightly under 30 words per inch.
Absolutely. When I file from an NFL game, my gamer is rarely longer than 450 words. But the column, I think, needs time to develop -- a beginning,...
Agreed. I just filed my first column under the 425-word limit, and by the time I was finished cutting that sucker down to size it looked like a...
I'm not sure where 425 words came from. By our measure, it's about 14 column inches, which also seems arbitrary. This applies to stories as well...
My SE recently slapped a 425-word limit on the section for all stories and columns. Shrinking newshole is to blame, he said. We've been nudged to...
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