Editors rarely sue for defamation in the modern era, for many good reasons, writes Mark Pearson, professor of journalism at Bond University.
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The difference between men and women freelancers
The ‘women undersell themselves, men oversell themselves’ issue continues, with The Awl comparing how different men and women freelancers pitch stories to them. Men are direct, women are apologetic.
The secret to being an editor
Editors pen a note of appreciation to the editor’s saviour: Google. Where else but Google can give the answer to questions like “do Burgher Sri Lankans have blue eyes?” and “is there a hyphen in ‘strong, silent type’?”.
Want to write a book? Become an editor
Usually being a writer and being an editor was a complete different kettle of fish. But is it actually advantageous for a young author to work in the publishing industry or does that just cause writing and reading fatigue?
AOL to replace human editors with robots
AOL — owner of big-name websites like TMZ, Politics Daily and Popeater — is creating an algorithm to automatically assign stories and pay rates to freelancers, based on web searchers and stats.
Good editors still matter
With the advent of self-publishing and blogs, we need good editors more (not less) than ever, writes Anne Trubek. We did the growing of the web, she says, now we need to do the pruning.
The year’s most powerful fashion mag editors
Forbes look at this year’s power players in the fashion press for 2009, a year where The September Issue, Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model all shook up the movers and shakers.
The Daily Verdict: Day 25
Yesterday Labor did marginally better at this salesman’s game as measured by Crikey’s The Daily Verdict., writes Richard Farmer.
Reality check: Australian polls poles apart
Editors of newspapers like to kid themselves that they are in touch with their readers - that they know who they are and what they are interested in reading. Some editors and proprietors even have delusions about influencing the readers and there are politicians aplenty who live in fear that it actually happens.
