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Notes Saturday Special: The Rumpus Catches Up With Ann FriedmanEvery time I read an interview with Ann Friedman it just makes me want to get back into journalism.
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Notes The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012The best “best of” list for journalism nerds. The “Correction of the Year” is probably my favorite:
Correction: An earlier version of this article claimed that journalists at Bloomberg Businessweek could be disciplined for sipping a spritzer at work. This is not true. Sorry. We must have been drunk on the job.
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So excited for Jack to work at the newspaper! (via bad machinery)
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"Someone said to me recently that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren’t sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed (*cough* DevilWearsPrada *cough*), but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy."
Ann Friedman, Executive Editor of GOOD (via The Rumpus)
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Notes The New Inquiry - Fact Check!So many feelings about this.
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Notes The Year's Best Humor Writing 2011I’m a firm believer that Becca O’Neal, editor of The Humor Section at Splitsider, is the most well-read editor of humor writing anywhere, and this year’s edition of her guide to the best of the best proves why. Comprehensively researched and lovingly selected, it’s the ultimate place to find something funny to read. Tons to bookmark/add to Instapaper in here!
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Notes"I was drunk and I bought it, and I forgot about it, and it showed up in the mail, and I was really excited."The New York Times on drunk online shopping
I’ve done this a few times, but the best is IRL drunken window shopping. More specifically: stumbling around the aisles of DSW—post-dinner at Chevy’s (RIP Battery Park Chevy’s), pre-movie—is pretty fun.
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Recommended Reading: Didion interviewin New York Magazine
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“Historic New York Times Emoticon Headline Makes it into Print” (via The Observer)
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New York Magazine wrote a pretty great Oral History of the UCB Theater.
Finally finished reading this (while on/off working) and def. recommend it. Blergh, I wish I was funny.
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Notes"Just a year after college, Kaling and one roommate — Brenda Withers, with whom Kaling sang a cappella at Dartmouth — wrote a short play that became the surprise hit of the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival. Withers and Kaling, who are best friends, would, for their own entertainment, mockingly pretend to be the best friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; that pretending spawned ‘Matt & Ben,’ the goofy play that reimagined how Damon and Affleck came to write the movie ‘Good Will Hunting.’"Curtis Sittenfield interviews Mindy Kaling in The New York Times and apparently she and her friend wrote and starred in what sounds like the greatest play ever in my favorite year. So awesome.
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NY Mag - NYC Will Gradually Lose All Caps Street Signs
And your capital letters keep me asking for more.
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“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.” —Joan Didion
