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Grammar & Style for the Digital Age
Happy National Grammar Day, y’all! I have a deep respect for the rules of grammar and usage and a love of all its intimate properties. Grammar and language are beautiful things when used properly. Even with our regional dialects and quirks – I live in the land of Pittsburghese where “dahntahn” is a place and “yinz” replaces my beloved “y’all” – I still find words to be mighty when wielded with care. But how important are the rules of grammar and usage in the digital age? Handwritten letters have gone the way of the dodo, every one of our devices has spell check standard and “wut r u up 2?”…
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My #AdviceForYoungJournalists
#AdviceForYoungJournalists, the hashtag sparked by Fusion’s Senior Editor Felix Salmon’s piece titled “To all the young journalists asking for advice…,” is full of advice for all those young & aspiring journalists (and PR pros too!) – if you can sort through the heaps of cynicism and sarcasm. Confession: I was a college journalist. PR is a communication-based career and heavily relies on exceptional writing skills to excel, so it should come as no surprise that PR pros and journalists sometimes work on the other side of it from time to time. When I chose PR in college, I wanted to become the best writer I could be and the best…
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The Social Media Sweep
So Winter Storm Juno may have been a bust for much of the East Coast this week, but hopefully everyone put that unnecessary snow day to good use by getting a jump on applying for few summer internships or after-graduation jobs. Let’s be serious, most of us spent that glorious bit of a break how we spend nearly any other snowy free day – hanging out on the couch in our pjs watching Netflix. It’s ok! It’s not too late to get everything in order and get those applications submitted. But first, clean up your online presence. It’s been drilled into our heads that future employers will scour the dark corners…