Newcastle Journal blog ‘slams’ hacks’ lingo

Posted by Martin Stabe on 9 January 2008 at 10:46
Tags: Blogs, The Journal

A blog by Graeme Whitfield, assistant news editor of the Newcastle Journal, is collecting examples of poor writing by journalists for a “dictionary of journalese”, Holdthefrontpage.co.uk notes.

So far he has taken on words used almost exclusively by journalists, such as ’slam’ and ‘tot’.

(Hopefully JournalLive will fix the incorrect links to its blogs’ RSS feeds soon, so that readers can follow Whitfield’s blog regularly!)

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James | 9 January 2008 at 10:56am

The comments are broken, too!
David Black | 14 January 2008 at 10:22pm

We will have an RSS feed breakage probe…
David Black | 15 January 2008 at 3:18pm

Feed Op By Production Ace Fixes RSS. It should be working again now if you refresh - thanks for spotting that.
Martin Stabe | 15 January 2008 at 3:38pm

Thanks David!

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