- Poynter, Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:49 PM
OMG! Gawker just forbade staff writes from using “Internet slang,” including popular acronyms, and words likes “epic,” “pwn” and “derp.” In an internal
memo obtained by Poynter, new Gawker editor Max Read writes: “We want to sound like regular adult human beings, not Buzzfeed writers or Reddit commenters.” As Poynter reports, “He
also asks staffers not to use strikethrough for corrections, preferring they ‘change the wording and link from there to a comment noting the corrected text.’”
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