ACKNOWLEDGEMEMTS

I found the following works useful in my chapters dealing with the knotty problems of text editing that confront subeditors: Robert Burchfield’s 1997 revision of Fowler’s English Usage (Oxford University Press); Sir Ernest Gower’s The Complete Plain Words (Penguin Books, 1987); Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage (Penguin Books, 1882), and G. V. Carey, Mind the Stop (Penguin Books, 1976 – and still the best). I would be failing in my duty if I did not acknowledge the example of my old colleague Harold Evans, whose five-volume work, Editing and Design (Heinemann), produced in the early 1970s, remains a repository of wisdom and expertise on the craft on newspaper journalism as it stood at the onset of ‘new technology’.

For permission to reprint material and whole pages as examples, I am indebted to the editors of The Guardian, the Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Mail, Financial Times, The Sun, the Bristol Evening Post, Birmingham Evening Mail, Western Mail, Liverpool Echo, Cumberland News, Hull Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard. I am glad to have permission from the editor of the Nottingham Evening Post to use the picture of the editorial room at his newspaper on page 7, and from the editor of the News of the World and News Group Newspapers Ltd for the use of pictures on pages 48 and 60.

Quark Inc, of 1800 Grant Street, Denver, USA and Unisys Italian Spa, of Via Benigno Crespi 57, Milan, Italy, have helped with information on their products and permission to reproduce technical illustrations. For special help and facilities I am grateful to the Newspaper Society and to Richard Beamish and Alan Shanks, and to Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers Ltd, and News Group Newspapers.