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Randy Dotinga, ASJA
 About a zillion years ago—in the early 1990s, to be exact—I worked as a rookie newspaper reporter and devoted a lot of energy to keeping my mouth shut in public.
Sure, I had plenty of political views, and my opinions got fiercer as evangelical right-wingers took over the local school board I covered.
They tried to add creationism to the curriculum, opposed the teaching of birth control and supported a sex education program with mottos like "Pet Your Dog, Not Your Date" and "Don't Be a Louse, Wait for Your Spouse." As a journalist writing about all this, I struggled not only to be neutral and objective but appear that way in order immunize myself against accusations of bias.
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Bobbi Dempsey, ASJA
 Over the past week, I've been seemingly unable to escape the Adele song, "Hello." (For the record, I love Adele, though, so I don’t mind so much.) But it seems fitting that this should be my background music as I write this intro post.
I’m excited to be the new editor of The Word. And I must give a big shout-out to Laura Laing, my predecessor. I am so appreciative of all of the work she invested into creating such an impressively organized system that will make my life so much easier!
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Writer Beware
Recently, The New York Times published a fascinating three-part series of articles on arbitration clauses, and how such clauses "buried in tens of millions of contracts have deprived Americans of one of their most fundamental constitutional rights: their day in court." (You can also listen to an interview with the articles' author on NPR.)
consider the companies their clients.
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Coralie Bickford-Smith's The Fox and the Star is Waterstones Book of the Year for 2015. The illustrated children's book beat out Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train, which were among the eight titles shortlisted for the award.
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The Wall Street Journal
Michael Pietsch, CEO of Hachette, writes: "I’ve been hearing about the demise of book publishing since the first day I stepped through the doors of a publisher back in 1978. But here we are still, publishers like Little, Brown, with histories going back 100 and 200 years. What other American industry has companies still in existence after two centuries, evolving and modernizing but still doing much the same work?"
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THE Writer
Lin-Manuel Miranda called from a hotel room in Philadelphia where he was shooting a new TV drama for NBC. He could just as easily been calling from a political office where he might be writing jingles for candidates, or from hanging out with Stephen Sondheim, with whom he re-wrote Spanish lyrics for the 2009 revival of West Side Story, or from the green room of a university where he might be delivering a presentation on hip-hop, or a stage where he might be freestyling.
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Writer's Digest
If you are a freelance blogger, there might be dozens of articles waiting for you. And your goal is to provide high quality content as quickly as possible. That’s why a lot of writers use smartphones and tablets and craft posts on the go. Almost everyone uses autocorrect to save time on typing, but is it really so good? As for me, I strongly recommend bloggers to turn off the autocorrect on your phone. And here are 10 reasons to assure you.
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Nieman Lab
Last month, The New York Times announced that it was formally shutting down City Room, the metro blog that it had been running since 2007. Even before its closure, it had been reduced in recent years to just a repository for a couple ongoing features — a far cry from the lively, webby blog it had once been. The Times had been publishing "on-line" since 1996, but most of what appeared at NYTimes.com in those early years was a simple duplicate of what ran in print.
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Nieman Lab
Is local news worth a dollar a day?
That's the fascinating question The Boston Globe is now posing to its local readers. It's a query that should resonate among the press around North America and Europe as well.
Ninety-nine cents has become the golden price of digital media. Ninety-nine cent trial offers are everywhere you look, and $7.99 to $9.99 a month will you everything from Hulu to Netflix to Spotify.
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