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What Is … an Editing Game Show?
The clue appeared on a large blue screen: “In news writing, this punctuation mark is rarely needed except in quotations of shouted or deeply emotional phrases.”
A buzzer went off and an editor answered: What is an exclamation point?
“Yes!” Peter Blair responded. (The exclamation point is appropriate here. Mr. Blair did indeed shout.)
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State of Play
As newsrooms struggle with rickety business models and precarious finances — as well as new technologies — they are deploying an array of editorial responses.
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