Poynter's Roy Peter Clark is a speaker at ScienceWriters2013, and his new book How to Write Short is prompting discussion of journalism in the Twitter age. CJR's Trevor Quirk seems to lament the changes but Carlos Lozada in the Washington Post writes that Clark "rejoices in the quality short writing he sees everywhere, on Facebook and Twitter feeds, in text messages and Match.com profiles."
September 29, 2013