The Ryerson Review of Journalism has an interesting story about the dying art of writing tabloid headlines – classics like the New York Post’s “Headless body in topless bar” from 1983 and inadvertently funny ones like “Grandmother of eight makes hole in one.”
Variety, the entertainment industry newspaper, has been famous for its distinctive “slanguage” headlines [...]

Last week I attended the Marketing Week conference’s Digital Day, during which an array of innovative new media speakers made one fact abundantly clear: that if communications professionals don’t get with the digital program, we’ll be yesterday’s news before we know it.
By the end of the day my brain ached.  Not because of the complexity [...]

A few days ago, the story broke on Bloomberg that United Airlines had filed for bankruptcy protection based on an old story written by the Sun Sentinel in 2002.  Although the story was old news, United’s stock plunged and the New York Stock Exchange had to suspend trading of the stock once the price went down [...]