Bygone Brooklyn bookseller broadside beguiles; history highlighted
We were doing a bit of on-line research, happily losing ourselves in the archives of the Brooklyn Public Library, natch, when we came across a fabulous tidbit from the fabled… Read more »
AP rules “Black” should now be capitalized; change seen as long overdue
On June 19, 2020—better known, this year, as Juneteenth—the Associated Press formally ruled that the word “Black,” when used in “a racial, ethnic or cultural sense,” must be capitalized. In… Read more »
Book critics org roiled by race controversy; prez, board members resign
The divisions and dissension that have rocked the publishing world over the last two weeks have spread even unto the normally staid world of book reviewers. When a dispute over… Read more »
“Celebrity Book Curator” throws shade at superstar shelves; brains boggled
If you thought that decoding a blog written by the Federal Reserve—as we did in this space last week—was weird, you ain’t seen nothing yet! We nearly fell out of… Read more »
Cover the White House? This professor wishes journalists would prefer not to.
Late last month, White House Press Secretary Sarah Hucakbee Sanders was asked to leave a small restaurant in Lexington, Virginia by the owner. “This feels like the moment in our democracy… Read more »
Washington Post employees are asking Jeff Bezos for better pay, more job security, and other important things
If you have to ask a powerful person something, it’s good to open with some throat-clearing and good news. This is just how the Washington Post employees opened their recent petition to the… Read more »
“Listen to many”: Another source of inspiration for Shakespeare has been revealed
To any student readers out there, tempted to plagiarize their midterm essay on Aphra Behn, be warned. Professors have a new tool in their authenticity arsenal: software. And while you… Read more »
Columbia Journalism Students organize a book drive for detained Reuters journalists in Myanmar
This past December, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, were unjustly detained in Myanmar following their coverage of the humanitarian crisis caused by ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in… Read more »
In Alabama, a daily newspaper has its #MeToo reckoning, forty years late
The #metoo movement has, since its inception, been a mixed bag, emotionally: the relief that, finally, this sort of behavior is receiving a social shaming long past due, combined with the… Read more »
Bringing the war home — to journalists
Journalism has always been a dangerous profession, especially for foreign practitioners of the trade. I’ve lost count of the friends and acquaintances who have died over the years in Latin… Read more »