Interesting reading

• John Drescher of The News & Observer, on how the paper is more popular than the president — and how it will soon have ads on the front page.

• Connie Coyne of The Salt Lake Tribune, on reader complaints about biased headlines.

• David Denby of The New Yorker, on a possible business model for newspaper Web sites.

Interesting reading

• Joe Grimm of Michigan State University and The Poynter Institute, on how to assemble a portfolio for online editing.

• Rod Lurie, writer and producer of numerous TV shows and movies, on bloggers as “unchecked reporters” who lack editors.

• Science blogger Bora Zivkovic, on the differences and similarities between newspapers and science.

Interesting reading

• Jim Caple of ESPN.com, on what the decline of print media means for baseball.

• Jan Freeman of the Boston Globe, on the misunderstood and maligned passive voice.

• Cartoonist V.C. Rogers of The Independent Weekly, on the shrinking page sizes of daily newspapers.

Interesting reading

• Ryan Teague Beckwith of Under the Dome, on a corny cliche that’s popping up a lot in North Carolina’s state government.

• Jann Nyffeler of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, on the value of the national conference of the American Copy Editors Society.

• Caulton Tudor of The News & Observer, on some fun names in the NCAA Tournament, including Chief Kickingstallionsims of Alabama State.

Interesting reading

• Ryan Thornburg of UNC-Chapel Hill, on the naming of a Web site and the cost of misspelling it.

• Pete Chronis, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post, on working on the copy desk (and elsewhere) at the Rocky in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Jonathan Zimmerman of New York University, on how academia can save newspapers.

Interesting reading

• Eric Ulken, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, on the troubled state of newspapers in Britain.

• Dan Barkin of The News & Observer, on checking the facts behind President Barack Obama’s recent speech to Congress.

• Jennifer Balderama of The New York Times, on a new book called “The Subversive Copy Editor.”

Interesting reading

• Steven Petrow, former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, on the use of “gay” as a synonym for “stupid.”

• Lolita Baldor of The Associated Press, on the apparent fade of the phrase “war on terror” in the Obama administration.

• Alan McDermott of Universal Press Syndicate, on editing The Writer’s Art, the language column by the retiring James Kilpatrick.