Times Higher Education – Students armed with sub-editing skills are given tools for life March 27, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackExcellent subs are not disposable relics of a bygone era. They are the keyhole surgeons of journalism; fast, precise and adept at ensuring that prevention averts the need for expensive or embarrassing cures. At best they write attention-grabbing headlines and turn convoluted codswallop into plain, comprehensible English.
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Crucially, subbing skills should be praised and taught at each and every university that makes any claim to educate journalists.
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