Washington Post digital subscriptions on sale for Memorial Day Weekend
Just a heads up. I re-subscribed to them as the sale is for it to cost $0.99/month for the next year.
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I had no idea that Bill Watterson guested on 3 strips of Pearls Before Swine back in 2014
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Crazy thought of the night. If Substack & Medium are making so much money and newspapers aren't, shouldn't newspapers just hire some of the top writers to be columnists for them? Can be the exact same idea, with the added bonus of paper print for those who get the circulation.
Bezos, call me.
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News Homepages
Ben Welsh is a journalist, but he has also set up an automated tool which captures and archives newspaper frontpages on their website.
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The Guardian Newspaper has a new automated tool for copyediting
Newspapers follow style guides. Rules which define how they grammatically write. When do you write eleven vs. 121? How do you refer to individuals who cause an uprising in a country? Etc. etc. Essentially, it is the programming language rules for that newspaper's use of language.
Heck, I've even thought about my own style guide rules for this blog.
Here is a link to the virtual reference of the Guardian's own style guide. Chicago Manual of Style. And here is the Associated Press's Stylebook. You get the idea.
The linked article is a coder focused deep dive in the system the Guardian set up for improving automated fixes of the style guide for the paper.
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