Bleacher Report has maintained a blacklist of clichés to avoid since 2012. The Quality Control team, using a combination of analytics and human judgment, has revised and expanded the list. These...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2015/10/06/the-updated-bleacher-report-blacklist-of-cliches-to-avoid/
The Times Insider blog offers a glimpse into its Manual of Style and Usage with a piece headlined “Please. Don’t ‘Decry’ the ‘Divorcée.’ Or Give Us Your ‘CV.’ The Times Guide to ...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2014/11/14/some-tips-on-modern-usage-from-the-new-york-times/
Want to hear a scary story? This one makes “Friday the 13th” look like a sweet fairy tale. That is, if your primal fear is … trusting Wikipedia. In “I accidentally started a Wikipedia hoa...
I’m thinking of making this a regular, or semi-regular, Friday feature: Gathering up some interesting pieces that I haven’t otherwise commented on in the B/R Blog and offering them up as week...
Your readers are great editors. But only if you listen to them. Not every writer likes to jump into the comments and mix it up with readers. You’ve heard the advice about engaging with the comm...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2014/06/04/dont-ignore-the-comments-your-readers-are-great-editors/
True confession: I’ve never been one to use outlines or checklists. What I mean by that is: I’m a dummy. I wish I could tell you that I don’t do these things because of some philosophy I’...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2014/05/13/check-it-out-how-checklists-can-make-you-a-better-editor/
Meeting deadlines is crucial in sports journalism. Readers want content immediately after a game or it becomes irrelevant. In-depth analysis of a player is only important while the athlete is eit...
Part 10 of Playbook: The Basics of Writing for Bleacher Report. Click here for more information and to download all of Playbook for free. Textual Correctness. It sounds a little bureaucrati...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2013/12/03/textual-correctness/
We wrap up our three-part series on common errors encountered by Bleacher Report’s copy editors with a grab-bag of topics. Here are Part 1, about agreement, and Part 2, about numbers. No serial...
In Part 2 of our three-part series on common errors and issues Bleacher Report copy editors see, we’re going to take a look at numbers. Here’s Part 1, where we addressed verb and pronoun agre...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2013/11/04/common-br-style-errors-part-2-numbers/