Sunday, June 13, 2010

A word on screwups


In my Editing Print and Online Media course, we’re encouraged to look for “screwups”, or editing mistakes, in published material and boy you’d be surprised how many you can find if you set your mind to it. But if there’s ever a place to avoid them...


it's in the lone headline on a front page:




























... and in the Canadian Press Stylebook (i.e. the journalism rulebook).





















Oops.


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