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Twitter para periodistas

Twitter es una gran fuente de pistas informativas: a estas alturas de eso no cabe ninguna duda. Con 200 millones de usuarios lanzando 130 millones de tuits diarios, se ha convertido en una gigantesca red de alertas mundial. Un uso eficaz de Twitter es fundamental para cualquier periodista, por lo que apunto aquí algunas claves [...]

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Orwell’s Questions

What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly? George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946

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Orwell’s Rules

Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active. Never use a [...]

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