So says Richard Prince at The Maynard Institute.

Pankaj Paul, director of design and presentation at The News Journal in Delaware, recently received a Gannett Newspaper Newsroom Supervisor Recognition Award.

Pankaj played a key role in helping to improve the daily newspaper, develop and launch new sections and create prototypes for new non-daily products. He played a leading role in creation of a design desk and coached two new assistants on supervision of staffers. His work with new sections included Spark, the newspaper's weekly publication aimed at young readers, a new Health section for a range of readers, an expanded Delaware Parent section and two books.

For the Health section, Pankaj participated in brainstorming sessions, contributed strongly to discussions about what types of stories would work best for the targeted audience, the role of breakouts and graphics and the importance of diversity. At the same time, he advised students working on the student newspaper at the ASNE convention and participated in several programs in the Asian-American Journalists Association.

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Think twice about copying content or code from any web site. Copyscape is here.

Via Larry D. Larsen

Defend your trademark or loose your rights to it forever. TiVo, apparently is putting up a fight and sending nasty letters to newsies around the country to cease-and-desist using “TiVo” as a verb.

“So as you pull up the ZIPPER of your SPANDEX running suit and ride the ESCALATOR down to the TARMAC, keep in mind that these were all trademarks lost to the “genericized” use of the word. Also on that list is HEROIN, formerly a pain reliever registered by Bayer.”

I remember an advertisement in Editor & Publisher several years ago that Xerox paid for. Essentially, it asked that the word “Xerox” not be used as a verb. I also cringing when my mother uses it to this day to mean “copy” something.

Via Rahul Chandran

The future of media as Google envisions it. Turn up the volume on your speakers as it plays. You will need Macromedia's Flash Player to check it out.