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Much Ado About Hot Dogs
Cited by Slate's "The Big Money" blog.

Dave Eggers Hailed as "Slow Word " Pioneer
MediaBistro reports on my Forbes article.

The Slow Word Manifesto War
The Atlantic Monthly discusses my Forbes column.

Dave Eggers: Print :: Alice Waters : Food?
New York Observer on my slow word column.

Does BPA give you the willies? It shouldn't
Cited in Toronto's Globe and Mail

What Can Parents Learn From The Dugard Family Ordeal?
Cited in an article written by Lenore Skenazy for Post Chronicle..

Note: obvious dangers can be dangerous
Cited in the Boston Globe blog Braniac.

BPA and Cans
Appeared on NBC Nightly News to point out flaws in Consumer Reports' study.

A Chemical Scare Campaign Is Good Business for Some
Analysis of BPA health scare cited by American Thinker

A Simple Smooch or a Toxic Smack?
Cited by the New York Times for STATS survey of toxicologists

In defence of the semicolon - "Trevor Butterworth, in the Financial Times, wrote a lovely defence of the semicolon three years ago..." The Canberra Times

Sex and the semicolon - "But in the years since Truss tried to set us straight, the punctuation conversation has shifted its focus from the apostrophe to a more subtle and debatable punctuation mark: the semicolon. The credit probably belongs to Trevor Butterworth... The Boston Globe, plus More Sex and the semicolon on the Boston Globe's blog.

Be Wary of Health Scare Headlines - San Joaquin Recordnet.com

Best Sex Writing 2008 - on the safety of sex toys

The Great American Baby Bottle Scare - Spiked Online.

Polls to Assess Drunk Driving Have Blind Spot- Wall Street Journal.

"Is blogging the new journalism?" - debate with Guardian Unlimited editor Emily Bell on the BBC's The World Tonight.

Interview with Andrew Keen about blogging and the future of the media on After TV.

"Ask the expert: should old media embrace the new" - Tom Glocer, chief executive of Reuters, Trevor Butterworth, a regular contributor to the FT Magazine, and Roger Parry of Clear Channel answer questions on how mainstream media should respond to the new digital revolution on the FT.com

"Blogging: 'A Flaccid Dirigible" - interview on Peter Himler's PR blog "The Flack."

"Beeb vs Blair" - discussion with Bob Garfield on NPR's On the Media

"British Papers" - discussion with Bob Garfield on NPR's On the Media.

"The truth is there are few places to get real media criticism... NewsWatch.org, the site published by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, has been an exception: a daily, reliably objective look into the many missteps of the American press. From West Nile encephalitis hysteria to bogus reports on the drug Ecstasy, NewsWatch called B.S. on the media. 
Ken Layne, USC's Online Journalism Review

"A glance at the Newswatch site reveals a sparse design and rich writing on media topics ranging from ABC's hand-wringing over Leonardo DiCaprio's presidential interview to criticism about the current rage for media criticism -- all handled with style and a wry sense of humor."
Greg Lindsay, "Cult following isn't enough to save NewsWatch," Inside.com

"Sad news: one of the media sites we've admired the most here at Arts & Letters Daily has gone bust. NewsWatch is no more..."
Arts & Letters Daily

"Your material was incisive, thought-provoking and expertly reported. I  always found myself hoping an examination of The Register-Guard's coverage of topics you explored on NewsWatch would indicate we were striving mightily to meet the high standards you set for responsible journalism. Striving being the key word..."
Jim Godbold, Executive Editor, The Register Guard.