A grammar for small newsrooms
House style is a compression algorithm. Here is one that survived four writers.
Nadia Roth
Craft and process. Keeps the house style guide and enforces the three-pass edit.
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Notes on a slower publishing calendar
Twelve posts a year, each one edited three times. A year of results.
Field notes from a print revival
An annual issue, 3,000 copies, sold out in nine days. The numbers behind it.
Writing for the second read
Editing for the person who comes back in a year, not the one skimming today.
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The reporter who stopped chasing scoops
Six months of slow reporting, and what it did to her sourcing.
Subscriptions, six years in (4)
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What a house style is for (4)
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Notes on a smaller masthead (4)
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Pricing for a niche you can name (3)
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