Herald-Dispatch Critique: Thursday, Nov. 5

The Thursday, Nov. 5 edition of The Herald-Dispatch featured an issue I had not come across before now - that being a major macro-editing issue.  A short article written on page 2, titled "Mysterious men in red appear in Huntington," did not need to be published.

The story was not relevant and provided no true newsworthy elements.  Maybe a follow-up was planned, but if not, that story did not need to be published.  Outside of that, the other micro-editing issues continued the same themes as previous editions - wordiness, cliches, beginning a lead paragraph with a prepositional phrase, ending a lead paragraph with the time element and editorializing.

Besides that short story written that did not need to be published, this edition was well-written yet again.  The bulk of the errors in this edition were small things that don't mean much.

Herald-Dispatch Critique: Thursday, Oct. 29

The Thursday, Oct. 9 edition of The Herald-Dispatch was a professionally written, relatively error free written newspaper that continued the trend of the issues I have critiqued previously.  There were no macro-editing issues and it only featured micro-editing issues.

Some common, reoccurring issues were beginning a lead paragraph with a prepositional phrase, ending the lead paragraph with the time element, occasional wordiness, cliches and editorializing.  There was also an issue of a story or two being too long.

All in all, this edition was on par with the previous editions I have read and continued many of the same themes.  Outside of the micro-editing issues mentioned, it was a clean issue.