Working With Words
A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor. Please email me at: john.ettorre@gmail.com. "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real." --James Salter
Saturday, April 15, 2006
About Me
- Name: John Ettorre
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
I'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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2 Comments:
A technical question...when you post a cartoon, are there any blog rules about identifying the source or original publication?
Dear Anon,
A good question. While I can't remotely begin to speak to generalized "blog rules," the simple Journalism 101 rule of thumb (which answers most questions one is likely to encounter while writing blogs) is that, yes, you do credit a source wherever possible. And ordinarily I would. This cartoon is from the website of the Poetry Foundation (poetryfoundation.org), and while they don't carry a credit, I'd bet real money that, based on the style, it's originally from the pages of the New Yorker, which licenses these cartoons from its vast archives. I happened to withhold the source this time probably in part because they did the same originally, but probably more importantly because I made a mental note to tell the larger story of this site (with a link) in a future post. In a nutshell, it's the product of a half-billion-dollar gift from an heiress to Poetry Magazine. I'm hoping to point people to the magazine and the website sometime soon.
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