How text-to-speech technology can help journalists avoid copy errors
You've run spell-check and closely studied your story. Your editors have done the same and…
You've run spell-check and closely studied your story. Your editors have done the same and…
Every day around the globe, journalists pick up the phone or head out of the…
A TV ad for kayak.com features an unscrupulous doctor manipulating a patient's exposed brain, turning him into…
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Journalists work hard to report the news and tell the stories of our time. They…
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On January 17, 2006, I launched "The Mechanic and the Muse," a blog that would,…