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Timewise, I’m motivated to embus
(and other frowned-upon words)

By Julie Starr | Published: November 14, 2008
Every now and then newsrooms receive edicts banning overused phrases and ungainly words. The use of access and impact as verbs springs to mind - something we were on constant guard against on the Business pages of the Daily Telegraph when I was there a few years ago. Apparently, this is nothing new. The NZ Herald in its 1966 Manual of Journalism exhorted its writers thus: "In recent years, without making them pass any sort of entrance examination, we seem to have admitted dozens of words which usually have little excuse for appearing in a newspaper. Some examples: 'Few air services operated yesterday because of fog.' Why not: 'Fog stopped most air services yesterday.'
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Pneumatic story delivery

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2008
Another piece of nostalgia from the NZ Herald Manual of Journalism 1967. Pneumatic tubes as a story delivery system within newsrooms were before my time but what a shame, they look cracking.
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The journalist’s toolkit circa 1967

By Julie Starr | Published: October 21, 2008
From the NZ Herald Manual of Journalism, 1967, a NZ Herald reporter breaks news from the scene of a fire via the radio telephone.
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A few words on the Herald’s little blue box

By Julie Starr | Published: September 8, 2008
One of the things I like about nzherald.co.nz is the blue tinted panel that appears in story pages and lists other headlines you can click directly through to. I like it because I can work my way through a dozen stories without having to click back to the homepage or section page in between each one - something that drives me nuts on other news sites.
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How did Malcolm become Michael overnight?

By Julie Starr | Published: March 11, 2008
There I was yesterday, banging on in a lecture to journalism students about sub-editing. Specifically, about the importance of checking facts and figures in stories and getting names, dates and places right. Small mistakes can have a disproportionately large effect on a reader's trust in a news organisation, said I. And what did I see on the front page of the Herald this morning? A story about the Vatican's revamp of the seven deadly sins attributed to a reporter called Michael Moore. But it wasn't by Michael at all, but by Malcolm Moore, the Telegraph's Rome-based correspondent.
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