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The Mackerel Wrapper: November 2011
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. COMM 337: Art, craft, technological change and the nature of news. So I came across this video on The Atlantic magazine's website, and I'm laughing my head off. It was put up yesterday by Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, an associate editor who curates videos for the website, and it's a hoot. We don't call in stories from a phone booth anymore. (When's the last time you even.
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The Mackerel Wrapper: December 2011
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Thursday, December 08, 2011. COMM 150: Last day of classes. Some last points about our subject matter in COMM 150, and a couple of housekeeping matters relating to the final exam, grades, etc. To open a new window, or just scroll dow to the next item. But if you publish anything away from school, including on your own blog, you have to be careful. My quick-and-dirty post tells you how to be careful. Cooperat...
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The Mackerel Wrapper: January 2012
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Sunday, January 29, 2012. If you're curious about jobs, free-lancing, how to tailor your resume, editorial careers, etc., check out Ed 2010 website. It's called Ed 2010 . that's "Ed" like in Ed, a guy's name, or ed., the abbreviation for editorial. "Ed2010," according to its website at http:/ www.ed2010.com/. How cool can that be? FOB’s and BOB’s and TOC’s, oh my! Here are all the terms to know. Ed 2010 is l...
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The Mackerel Wrapper: COMM 353: Editing ... what worked? what didn't? How could we make it better?
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. COMM 353: Editing . what worked? How could we make it better? In her handbook "How to Do Leaflets, Newsletters and Newspapers," Nancy Brigham suggest three ways of doing the editing piece for a publication (121-22). Quoted verbatim (but with citations omitted), they are:. So here's the question. How well did our editing process work? Post your preliminary, top-of-the-head thoughts as...
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The Mackerel Wrapper: The essence of every beauty ad [or shaving, or beer ...] you'll ever see on TV
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Saturday, May 19, 2012. The essence of every beauty ad [or shaving, or beer .] you'll ever see on TV. Since I won't be teaching next semester, this may be the last post to The Mackerel Wrapper for a while. So, for my communications students - and anybody else who surfs into the blog - I'm linking to a sketch on advertising from the TV show That Mitchell and Webb Look. Credit where it's due:. Im a retired Eng...
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The Mackerel Wrapper: Picasso's 'Guernica,' COMM 353, the nature of art and the anniversary of a bombing that changed the way we see the world
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Picasso's 'Guernica,' COMM 353, the nature of art and the anniversary of a bombing that changed the way we see the world. Copy of Picasso's 'Guernica' in Guernica (Creative Commons). That fills in the story behind the painting. Reported Annika Müller of Der Spiegel:. In the evening, when the bombers were finally gone and Iriondo could leave his shelter, the town that had been the sp...
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The Mackerel Wrapper: COMM 353: Interview with a copy editor at the New Yorker ... and some thoughts (*soliciting your thoughts, too) on craftsmanship
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. COMM 353: Interview with a copy editor at the New Yorker . and some thoughts (*soliciting your. Thoughts, too) on craftsmanship. Did you notice the in-class writing assignment cleverly embedded in the headline? Details are at the bottom of the post, in boldface type. There's an interesting interview with a New Yorker copyeditor. That's my favorite. What's yours? Craftsmanship is pa...
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The Mackerel Wrapper: May 2012
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A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield. Saturday, May 19, 2012. The essence of every beauty ad [or shaving, or beer .] you'll ever see on TV. Since I won't be teaching next semester, this may be the last post to The Mackerel Wrapper for a while. So, for my communications students - and anybody else who surfs into the blog - I'm linking to a sketch on advertising from the TV show That Mitchell and Webb Look. Credit where it's due:. Im a retired Eng...
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