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NYT reinventing the wheel

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by MisterCreosote, Apr 18, 2017.

  1. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Apparently, people no longer know what datelines mean, so instead of explaining it to them, the New York Times is redesigning them.

    I actually like it, because I'm not sure anyone ever cared about datelines in the first place:

    Reporters Get New Datelines So They Won't Seem Out of Place

    Why should readers be expected to know that a place name at the beginning of an article, spelled entirely in uppercase letters and followed by an em dash, means that the bylined correspondent was in that very place to report and write the story?

    The Times will soon start using a new style of dateline-byline in which writers will be introduced as being in the place: “By Steven Erlanger in London,” for instance, or “By Anne Barnard in Beirut, Lebanon.”

    Hopefully the NYT headline doesn't trigger the Oop-Signal.
     
  2. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    This could be huge.
     
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  3. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    This isn't noteworthy except for all the writers who are filing by watching TV at home.
     
  4. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    "By TyWebb in The Newspaper's Office because they couldn't afford to send him to the game and he had to rely on stats and quotes from the SID"
     
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  5. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    By MISTERCREOSOTE in his living room in his underwear and eating a block of cheese.
     
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  6. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Tonight's Sports TV Schedule

    Clippers at Warriors, 10:30 p.m.
    Lakers at Blazers, 10:30 p.m.

    (All Times PDT, which means way over there out west ... you know, California and shit.)
     
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  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Man, those are some late-starting PDT games.
     
  8. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    <East Coast agate boy forgets to change them to 7:30>
     
  9. Bronco77

    Bronco77 Well-Known Member

    Exciting Times!
     
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  10. Old Time Hockey

    Old Time Hockey Active Member

    I think that just once, for a month, AP should run everything in Pacific time, so the east-coast people have to do the math for a while.
     
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  11. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    And the agate clerks in Phoenix still couldn't catch a break.
     
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  12. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    By Chef2, who's keeping the sound down at home because it's hard to concentrate on podiatry with Gus Johnson screaming "a VICIOUS CUT!" in his ear
     
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