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However you report it, remember that they died. They didn't pass away or whatever other phrase you want to use. And also, for something like that, why wouldn't you lock the comments?

This thread brought back this memory that I hadn't thought about in forever. When I was growing up, we had a PM paper that was eventually delivered by a number of kids on our street. It was almost a rite of passage --- you turned 12 and you were eligible to deliver the paper. The one boy gave...

For what it's worth, "Dubs" is against ESPN's style guide. Someone went rogue.

That's because the vast majority of the population also cannot spell or write properly and thus doesn't notice a mistake. Also sad, but also the truth.

A bit off topic, but in that story --- if there's a worse trend in online journalism anymore than "Here's a story, now let's jam 10 random people's useless tweets on the bottom," I'm yet to see it.

At first thought, I'm inclined to believe that this is a good thing. The image in question is not merely one of Tom Brady that was purchased through a Getty Images or AP subscription; it was one that a layman took of Tom Brady during the Kevin Durant courtship weekend that he then apparently...

I'm in. Good for you, type. I stop all the time to help people in distress and always wonder afterward why I'm the only one. Hell, a meter maid (? He was a man) was walking down the street the other day and dropped a bag with some receipts in it. Two people walked by. I picked it up, yelled...

Incorrect. In this regard, quotes are not unlike photographs. If the quote is so powerful and so moving that it will have a great impact on the population, you must run it.

This is undoubtedly on the mark. I know people who work on the sports side with the AP and they often mention how they've been ravaged by the number of layoffs on the editing side. It also seems, in my opinion, that the conpany has done itself no favors with its "innovations" in recent years...

I wonder if the original poster and I are thinking about the same individual. There's a reporter on a fairly high-profile beat who, likely because it's an organizational thing, always retweets and aggregates competitors' reports on the same beat. That individual writes compelling stories and...

Cam's tweet video was a joke. If he wants to make a "genuine" apology, he can do it in a public setting and not by staring into a lens.

Among lots of other things, let this be a lesson that you don't have to jam tweets into a story just because.

How does one travel at "just over the top speed of the vessel"? ...It went faster than it can?

I looked it up out of curiosity because I hadn't heard of the place and it looks like it's owned/run by the company that runs the Capitals and Wizards. Take that for what it's worth.

Anyone saying Clinton Yates is very good couldn't have ever read Clinton Yates' work. This is par for the course - both the faux outrage and me rolling my eyes by the 17th word.

I have joined all manner of professional organizations over the years and feel bad to say it, but on the whole, they offer very little. The NSMA/NSSA has its annual awards, but I'd only ever join so that I could vote in them. I don't remember a tangible benefit for me. I've been a member of...

Sorry to hear about all this. The others have offered better advice than I ever could, but I will say this: Have an honest conversation/open dialogue with your children. They need your support more than you know. I lost my entire childhood to parents who were heavy alcoholics and dealt with...

It was an incredible bother, from having only 200 words to not having photos to the ****ty writing. Some of those "stories" included stats that you'd never put in a 400-word story, let alone in something so brief.

Since leaving the industry, it's been absolutely amazing how much of my life I feel like I've gotten back having lost access to company accounts and giving up my own personal accounts. I started ignoring Facebook about a year ago because I got tired about the political garbage, but then I...

Sadly, it's not entirely apples and oranges. It won't be long before newsroom editorial decisions are made (probably by ignorant higher-ups) where the small councils are ignored in favor of chasing car crashes and other morbid curiosities, all in the name of page views. Actually, I'm certain...