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Week of 1/15 |
Please have Journal #1 ready for Tuesday, Jan. 29.
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My "catch": |
1/22 |
Note the series of images here for SHCOOL. Another hoax that cost a TV reporter her job over Asiana Airlines pilots' names; and here's the video. Here's one from the hallways of La Salle with no day:
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1/29 |
Some typical journal entries: a billboard typo that made the rounds (but what kind of billboard was it?); what about this one (is it a mistake?):
And here's a new one from the La Salle Union: |
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2/5 |
Some historical punctuation errors in movies in 2010 and in 2005 with a bigger film. Here is the corrected title that had to be put on all the DVDs. etc. Check this list from businessinsider.com — what's on your list? Why did I take this picture? Here are some good submissions for discusssion from Helen (a New York Times error that was still there a week later);
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2/12 |
Simple but serious advice for those seeking a job. |
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2/19 |
The Economist's cover photo manipulation—ethical? Racist yearbook photos No. 2? Is this apostrophe sort of ironic? Anyone know this band? OK—some fun (and language tips): |
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2/26 |
Good sites for checking who died and current events in 2018 and 2019 for Dow Jones test, and an interactive U.S. (children's) map. What about this one:
(read the text here). Here is my catch Fake or sham academic institutes (look at the Contact page and Google the address) and journals are a new problem (hosted at Maryland Institute of Research; do a whois lookup and see this article; note that both the address and the owner of the URL have changed) Also for fact-checking and credibility, (from an experiment at Stanford U.), what restaurant franchise did the creator of this minimum wage site formerly work for? |
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3/5 |
Slate's approach to correcting tweets |
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3/12 |
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3/19 |
La Salle is now an official partner in MediaWise | |
3/26 |
An interesting demo of deep fakes from Reuters | |
4/2 |
Personality type and editors (are you a grumpy introvert?). Here's a preview from ACES of a major change in AP style for 2019:  |
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4/9 |
In the back room of the Wister lab, there should be working copies of InDesign CC. You should also have access to this room with your ID card, and the DArt student lab next door. Here's a good article on serif vs. sans-serif fonts from Canva (although it is not true that all sans-serifs have "lines that are all the same width throughout," and they can't decide on sans serif vs. sans-serif—and Courier is not a serif and it's = it is ...). Do note how most of the serifs here are modern serifs.
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4/16 |
A poster spotted in our hallways by a colleague. What does this say?
News about Helvetica |
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4/23 |
This was an interesting piece of poor fact checking by the L.A. Times. And the Mueller Report made typographic news. |
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5/7 |
Final test | |
