The Sandspur
The Rollins Sandspur: Florida's Oldest College Newspaper
Printing papers since 1894. Tumbling since 2011.
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Photo reblogged from NPR Fresh Air
WHEN YOU HAVE THREE PIECES TO WRITE AND YOU’RE UNDER DEADLINE AND THEN YOU FIND OUT YOU HAVE A NEW PIECE TO WRITE.
Articles AND class assignments apply for us college kids. Especially at the end of the semester.
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Photo reblogged from Secretly Sassy Sara
100% our office.
Or how we picture it anyway.(Source: plaguexboy)
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An article about Ivana Trump and her spending habits misstated the number of bras she buys. It is two dozen black, two dozen beige and two dozen white, not two thousand of each.Josh Dzieza rounds up the best New York Times corrections of all time—including, yes, Twilight Sparkle. (via newsweek)
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Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, on the decision to run the front page photo of a starving child in Somalia in Tuesday’s print edition:
We realize, of course, that the story du jour is the debt vote — to which we devoted the lead story and upwards of four pages this morning — but there’s no reason that has to eclipse a human catastrophe in Africa. Readers can follow more than one important story at a time.
Jeffrey and Tyler went to great trouble and some risk to get as close as they could to the calamity in Somalia. They sent us a harrowing story and vivid, arresting photographs. We put them before the attention of our readers. That’s our job.
Via the Huffington Post
Original story: Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
