At our table: Vac, Pete, Lee, Barbara, me and Janine. Janine, who incidentally double-majored at the University of Wisconsin in journalism and dance, got to talking about the story she’s working on here this weekend.
This is what she wrote in her workshop proposal:
For the past three years I have had a growing stack of papers [...]

Barbara started her session by passing out copies of one of Mike’s columns from back in ’05.
Here’s the end of the column:
Looking back, I think we should have found a better word for the headline. Yes, we can defend our call. After all, “shoddy” is a word that can neither be proved nor disproved. But [...]

Barbara King Lord in her talk right now on precision in language: “Let’s forget the rules, if we know them, and see what works the best.”

What we’re looking forward to the rest of the day: Celina Ottaway on sourcing at 1:30, Barbara King Lord on precision in language at 3:45 and then of course Pete Hamill on our imperfect craft – tonight, at 7, at the Eddie Adams barn in nearby Jeffersonville.

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]