The American Scholar has published an excellent address given in August 2009 by William Zinsser (of On Writing Well fame) to incoming international students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Here's an important take-away on writing in the new media age: Some of you, hearing me talk to you so urgently about the need to write [...]
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Is the Internet Killing Storytelling?
November 6, 2009 – 8:37 AM
Yes, according to Ben Macintyre in his column at The Times of London. Here's how he opens: Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing. The [...]