‘Our vanishing heritage’: @johnemcintyre’s list of disappearing ‘newspaper lingo’
August 21st, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Newspapers
John E. McIntyre, who worked for the Baltimore Sun for nearly 23 years, has the beginnings of a glossary of disappearing newspaper terms from spike, stet and slug to ‘lobster shift’:
“The third shift on a daily newspaper, between midnight and 8 a.m.”
You can send him more suggestions via email or on Twitter.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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