Bringing back the (occasional) newspaper front page breakdowns to look at today’s Times.

Red — opinion, statement
Green — largely factual
Blue — page furniture
Yellow — from briefing
Pink — tabloidism/journalese

Year 5 and 6 had fabulous talks from Greenbank High School and Birkdale High School to prepare them for their secondary school journalese. It was great to see ex pupils speak about their experience! ⚖️✏️ #connect

Occasional journalese vent: Media types and other professionals parroting the term 'looks like' is as irritating a social contagion to me as any transing or powerfemmery

#laptopcrash

Awful and wonderful.
I love these words from an editor in Boston.
-I can't tell you how good it is. How affecting. And how artful - I loved that it was associative and freewheeling and personal, not weighed down with journalese, with facts and figures. It is awful and wonderful.-

Things which only headline writers say #journalese 'fears mount'

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The full Journalese Scandal Scale.

Front page breakdown, The Daily Mail:

Purple: opinion, statement
Green: factual
Yellow: from briefing
Pink: tabloidism/journalese
Blue: page furniture, promotion

To get at what’s happened in recent days, Terry Glavin 格立文 writes, you’ve got to thrash through the underbrush of a great deal of journalese, idle speculation and hollow boasts - “tit-for-tat retaliation,” “will not be intimidated,” “a new beginning with China” - in order for…

Matthew Bailey Robert Hutton Guardian politics I was explaining 'romps' yesterday, and what a delight picking this up again. You've captured Journalese beautifully.

Merry Christmas, I hope there are no 11th hour crunch talks 😀

This is journalese on steroids from the Mail Online on the King's health Robert Hutton

Front page breakdown, The Sun:

Purple: opinion, statement
Green: factual
Yellow: from briefing
Pink: tabloidism/journalese
Blue: page furniture, promotion

'Pushback' - bad faith journalese

I get that it's probably hard to find journalese for 'busy' but chuckling at the idea of M8 J11 stans

RED BOX PODCAST

The Battle of Waterlooville

🔵As Tory MPs Braverman & Drummond go head-to-head - we hear from supporters of both, and Michael Crick.

PLUS Janice Turner & Robert Crampton on safe spaces & journalese

🎧LISTEN pod.fo/e/171f6c

Journalese blunder of the day (so far): ‘leaving vast sways of the area empty’ (the Mail again).

Is anyone else irritated by the overused journalese 'looks like'? It's like a contagion, even some of the best journos resorting to cliche

'What would problematic intersectionality look like to you, going forward?'

One lobbyist, one business leader.

Journalese is so revealingly dystopian.

Fossil fuel phase out and tripling renewables are both options in draft text at #COP28

unfccc.int/sites/default/…

(Inside baseball, but interesting to see the global stocktake rather than the cover decision is likely what in journalese we will call the 'deal' at COP this time)

Conspirador Norteño “Nearly three-fourths of the negative posts about Haley, for example, were traced back to fake accounts.” 🧐🤨 How are these wild bot claims still getting published in 2023?

I mean 75% ! 🙄 and what exactly does “traced back to” mean? Is that journalese for “tweeted by” or…?