Categories: OLD Media Moves

Portfolio.com story has info TK

Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York writes that a story posted on the Conde Nast Portfolio web site Monday afternoon had two TKs in the text.

That’s shorthand by journalists for information “to come.”

Flamm wrote, “Portfolio.com, is hardly the first Web site to put up a story that still needed work. But itâ€™s a little unusual for TKs to make it into public view.

“A Portfolio spokeswoman, told of the errors, said sheâ€™d look into it. In other words, ‘TK.’

“She called back to say the post had been removed for an update. ‘Someone hit go before it was finished,’ she added.

“The entire Web site will ‘refresh’ on Aug. 23rd, when it goes live with new bloggers and a new design.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.