Sportswriter Jay Busbee of Yahoo Sports has written a tongue-in-cheek form letter in response to commenters on his pieces, and anyone who’s ever had an online audience can relate. The letter, p...
I want to share three pieces about writing that I’m hoping will be some combination of useful and entertaining. I’ll list them in order of their place on the utility-to-fun spectrum. Not that...
Jay Rosen, an NYU media scholar and critic and a Twitter celebrity, has a new Pinterest site called “Social media wiz shares wizdom,” on which he, well, shares wisdom that can help you too be...
As I was discussing with my friends Kanye West and Justin Bieber yesterday*, Monday is April Fools’ Day, and that means it’s time for this reminder: Satire is forbidden at Bleacher Report, an...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2013/03/27/april-fools-day-reminder-no-satire-allowed-on-br/
Bleacher Report’s copy editors keep a running list of “eggcorns and malapropisms” on the company Yammer. I thought it would be fun to present a selection of the funniest of them—in the sp...
This blog does not pretend to be the only source of great writing advice on the web. It also doesn’t pretend to be the only source of really lousy writing advice. So now that we understand each...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2012/05/01/mcsweeneys-guide-to-better-writing-hey-it-couldnt-hurt/
Bleacher Report Featured Columnist Ely Sussman has made a video showing you all how it’s done at B/R. Watch and learn, aspiring FCs. And get those Sprite cans outta the way!
At Bleacher Report we sometimes get pushback from writers about our rule against writing “satire,” which for our purposes is defined as writing things that are not true as if they were true. ...
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. �...
http://blog.bleacherreport.com/2011/12/23/quote-of-the-day-ha-ha-laughed-scrooges-nephew/
When we made the move to stop allowing satire articles on Bleacher Report about a year ago, it felt like a bummer. I’ve always wanted B/R to be a good home for all kinds of quality sportswritin...