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Aug.14.2012 My Dream Headlines Just for fun, and to give my creativity a little boost, I decided to create some "dream" headlines. I dislike reading the newspaper or watching TV news because almost every story is bad news or a negative take on an event or some new study. Here are a few of the headlines I would like to see:...	Sep.18.2010 WAS HM AMUSED? STILL, I UNDERSTAND THE HEADLINE WRITERS DESIRE FOR SYMMETRY An inadvertent demotion for the queenSeptember 17, 2010 \| 12:52 pm A front-page headline with this photo of Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Benedict XVI reads, "Her Highness, His Holiness." It’s poetic and alliterative, but unfortunately, it’s also incorrect. As Times readers pointed out in...
Jul.02.2010 A Poetic Soul: Creativity in the Off Hours With News Writer Jack Sheedy SPJ award-winning journalist Jack Sheedy tackles tough subjects with a clear, creative touch. Like all busy working writers, he uses downtime to refuel his creative juices. Also a list maker, Jack finds the to-do list helpful in keeping him on the writing track, and for firing up his creative soul...	Feb.19.2010 Black type and red faces Fresh out of college in the summer of 1953, I was visiting a friend in beautiful downtown Seneca, S.C., while on the outskirts of town the Oconee County Fair was in bloom. The banner-headlined story on the front page of the local paper led off with "Big girls, little girls, 35 of Oconee County...
Jul.08.2009 To Whim It May Concern During a recent visit with my sister, which always ends up meandering down memory lane, we remembered, both fondly and not so much, living together in Boston as we looked for jobs. This was (way) back when we didn’t have Internet access, and we actually looked for work in the classifieds and sent...	Jul.07.2009 Why Newspapers Are Increasingly Irrelevant (Reposted from The Huffington Post) Michael Jackson died in the early afternoon on Thursday, June 25. I remember because my daughter texted the news to me from her summer college class about 2:45, when she was ostensibly listening to her professor. That’s not so remarkable. What is remarkable is...
Nov.26.2008 What's the Story? I am endlessly fascinated with the juxtapositions of pictures and headlines in newspapers. Sometimes I think the layout people just get bored, but other times things seem to be totally coincidental. I’ve been working for years on a scrapbook about this stuff (which may or may not ever see the...