Yesterday is no more; Today and Tomorrow, too.

[Pencil Dick]

Opinions? I never liked seeing "yesterday" or "tomorrow" in any print copy.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/05/yesterday-the-boston-globe-ended-all-your-tomorrows/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:%20NiemanJournalismLab%20%28Nieman%20Journalism%20Lab%29

 

[SixToe]

Yesterday could be yesterday, last week or 943 days ago. Use a date.

 

[Beef03]

I've never used yesterday or tomorrow, but always today. I can understand the move to better serve the online format, but I'm not sure I like doing away today. Most if not all online stories come with a posted tine and date to give clarity to it's publication date. Using today I think gives better context to a story, especially a fresh one. If they're concerned about some one digging in the archives or come across the story on google or another website, how did they deal with people picking up an old copy of the Boston Globe prior to the digital age?

 

[Versatile]

I've never used yesterday or tomorrow, but always today. I can understand the move to better serve the online format, but I'm not sure I like doing away today. Most if not all online stories come with a posted tine and date to give clarity to it's publication date. Using today I think gives better context to a story, especially a fresh one. If they're concerned about some one digging in the archives or come across the story on google or another website, how did they deal with people picking up an old copy of the Boston Globe prior to the digital age?

The issue with "today" comes that the editors must remember to change it to either "tomorrow" or "Friday" (in today's case) for the online posting, assuming the story is posted during the day before it runs in the newspaper.

 

[Thomas Goldkamp]

Isn't AP style not to use yesterday or tomorrow? Assuming Boston Globe doesn't go by AP, just trying to make sure it hasn't changed since I learned it that way.

 

[Versatile]

Isn't AP style not to use yesterday or tomorrow? Assuming Boston Globe doesn't go by AP, just trying to make sure it hasn't changed since I learned it that way.

The Associated Press doesn't use today, either.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

But the most important question is ... is Who still on first?

 

[SixToe]

Who is so Yesterday, but What is Tomorrow?

 

[da man]

Does this mean all those athletes and coaches were right? There is no tomorrow?

 

[Thomas Goldkamp]

Isn't AP style not to use yesterday or tomorrow? Assuming Boston Globe doesn't go by AP, just trying to make sure it hasn't changed since I learned it that way.

The Associated Press doesn't use today, either.

Well what do ya know, journalism school taught me that wrong. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[BillyT]

Yesterday could be yesterday, last week or 943 days ago. Use a date.

Not if it is in a paper dated May 4, 2012.

That said, I completely understand why they did this.

 

[MileHigh]

Isn't AP style not to use yesterday or tomorrow? Assuming Boston Globe doesn't go by AP, just trying to make sure it hasn't changed since I learned it that way.

The Associated Press doesn't use today, either.

Well what do ya know, journalism school taught me that wrong. Thanks for the heads up.

It's a recent change. I'm still old school and prefer using "today" but definitely not tomorrow and yesterday.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

The sun will come out on May 4th.

May 2 all my troubles seem so far away. May 3 it looks like they are here to stay. Oh I believe in May 2.

 

[crimsonace]

Have never used yesterday or tomorrow. Today is fair game.

 

[dirtybird]

Always hate using today. Perhaps that's because I have to edit postgame quotes to reflect that, and that annoys me, but whatever.

 

[deskslave]

I've never used yesterday or tomorrow, but always today. I can understand the move to better serve the online format, but I'm not sure I like doing away today. Most if not all online stories come with a posted tine and date to give clarity to it's publication date. Using today I think gives better context to a story, especially a fresh one. If they're concerned about some one digging in the archives or come across the story on google or another website, how did they deal with people picking up an old copy of the Boston Globe prior to the digital age?

In most online stories, that post date is in tiny font, somewhere way off the page.

There was a whole thing last year where a bunch of people got annoyed at some Muslim group in Houston for hosting a Six Flags day on Sept. 11. Except they'd misinterpreted the online story, and the event was actually Sept. 4.

If you want to use yesterday/today/tomorrow, you're basically saying you don't want people to use your online archive of stories.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

Isn't AP style not to use yesterday or tomorrow? Assuming Boston Globe doesn't go by AP, just trying to make sure it hasn't changed since I learned it that way.

The Associated Press doesn't use today, either.

Well what do ya know, journalism school taught me that wrong. Thanks for the heads up.

It's a recent change. I'm still old school and prefer using "today" but definitely not tomorrow and yesterday.

exactly

 

[Versatile]

Isn't AP style not to use yesterday or tomorrow? Assuming Boston Globe doesn't go by AP, just trying to make sure it hasn't changed since I learned it that way.

The Associated Press doesn't use today, either.

Well what do ya know, journalism school taught me that wrong. Thanks for the heads up.

It's a recent change. I'm still old school and prefer using "today" but definitely not tomorrow and yesterday.

Online? In a newspaper, "today" is fine. The newspaper goes in the trash by the end of the day. Online stories last forever. A large percentage of your total readership comes after "today." That's particularly true for any story posted after 5 p.m. Don't make them use the time stamp.

 

[Thomas Goldkamp]

Online? In a newspaper, "today" is fine. The newspaper goes in the trash by the end of the day. Online stories last forever. A large percentage of your total readership comes after "today." That's particularly true for any story posted after 5 p.m. Don't make them use the time stamp.

Maybe I'm giving too much credit to readers, but I've never been confused going back and looking at a story written months ago that uses today. It would bug me if there was no time stamp on it, though. As long as the time stamp isn't invisible, I don't see using today as a big issue.

 

[spikechiquet]

Our paper switched a while back...then a few weeks ago, we went back to using "today", but regular day names any other time.