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I wrote recently that reporters don't get the benefit of as much editing as they used to. Day by day, the Columbia Journalism Review ...

Update: Dave, on the Shorpy blog did a feature on Herald Square a few days after I published this post. In it, he presents a photo that...

Mississippi John Hurt, Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor {from Complete Studio Recordings ; source: Ordinary Finds } I've been listening...

I imagine journalists have always felt a bit torn between two desires that are mostly in competition with one another. They want to be resp...

It's not always easy for journalists to get their facts straight. Even back when papers could afford the salaries of editors and re-wri...

Before he wrote his Dictionary of Modern English Usage , Henry Fowler and his brother Francis wrote a little language guide called The King’...

{Caption: New York City, interior of tenement house, Detroit Publishing Co., made sometime between 1900 and 1910; source: Library of Congres...

I've had a mild sort of passion for libraries from the day I first set foot in the small room of books below our first grade classroom i...