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The future is, um, sigh, devoured by the present

Start the week off right and consider the big issues and ideas that will define your future and our shared future. Start with a good laugh, or a good cry. In either case, start here with Charlie Rose. Charlie is a well-known interviewer on US public television. Charlie once said, according to the CharlieRose.com “beta” […]

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The burn

Last week we described the newspaper business as a satellite falling out of orbit. This week it appears to be burning up in the atmosphere. The latest Audit Bureau of Circulations report showed a 3.5 percent drop in circulation – to about 50 million — for the largest U.S. newspapers over the six-month period ending […]

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How to be an editor

Christy Bradford, who taught me how to be an editor, died late last week at her home in Kansas City. She had been teaching journalism at the University of Kansas since 1999. I love the description of Christy by her students at KU: “combination den mother/drill sergeant.” It was the same for us in her […]

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Typecasting

“There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools,” said the early 20th Century designer and writer Eric Gill. I’m one of them. Two, fun, font games test the fool in you. The first is “Font, coffee or baby name.” I was five for five (I think). […]

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