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End of year Bureau Chiefs News

Anna — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:06:27 +0000

FakePewResearch made Mashable’s 10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011

Write More Good was included in Bad Astronomy’s Holiday geek gifts guide.

FakeAPStylebook is Number Four

Anna — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:14:35 +0000

Number Four on the list of Paste Magazine’s 100 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011.

Check it out for some ideas of new twitter accounts to follow!

Gift Guides and Hanukkah

Anna — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:58:30 +0000

Write More Good is mentioned in this holiday gift guide 17 gifts for Grammar Geeks.

Our advice on spelling Hanukkah is mentioned in this article, How do you spell “Hanukkah?,” musing on made-for-TV movies

Bureau Chief on Public Radio in Salt Lake City

Anna — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:58:31 +0000

Tune in tomorrow morning to KCPW’s City Views to hear a discussion with me about FakeAPStylebook!

I’ll be on Segment 2 of the show.

You can listen to the show online, and it is also available as a podcast.

FakePewResearch profile and interview on the Daily Dot

Anna — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:19:33 +0000

Head over to the Daily Dot for a profile of FakePewResearch and comments from Bureau Chiefs Ken Lowery, RJ White, and David Wolkin.

“Did you know that 33 percent of puppies never get hugged?

Or that the top baby names for 2011 were Edward, Harry, Dylan, Chase and Sealteamsix?

If you do, chances are you are one of the more than 13,800 people following @fakepewresearch, a hilarious new parody Twitter account from the minds behind @fakeapstylebook. The account parodies the Pew Research Center, a think tank established in 2004 as a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, known for its public opinion polls and social science research.”

Read the full article.

Dr. Andrew Kunka profiled

Anna — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:33:13 +0000

‘Write More Good’: USC Sumter professor joins several writers in spoof of AP Stylebook
“Andrew Kunka’s friends swear they can spot the USC Sumter English professor’s jokes in the spoof handbook “Write More Good.”
Most of the time, Kunka says, they are wrong.
The book was inspired by a Twitter feed started by Kunka and 14 friends across the country who call themselves The Bureau Chiefs. The feed “FakeAPStylebook” was started about two years ago and offers tips such as “Use citrus adjectives to describe the physiques of baseball players: juiced, lime, fresh-squeezed, limoncello, Orangina.” or “Never bury the lede. Cremation is the only way to make sure it’s really dead.” (That one got retweeted more than 100 times.)”

Read the full story on SC.edu

FakePewResearch Mentioned on Slate and Wall St Journal Blogs

Anna — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:23:59 +0000

Fake Pew Research was featured on the Slate culture blog Browbeat, “Like its forebear, @FakePewResearch takes an iconic journalistic tool—in this case, polling data—and throws in just the right amounts of irony, pop-culture geekery, and absurdism. The resulting feed has the flavor of old Onion infographics back when best-selling CDs were still a common subject of conversation.”

The Wall Street Journal Ideas Market also featured FakePewResearch, “You’ve heard of the Pew Research Center, perhaps — purveyor of earnest surveys and reports on various aspects of American life? Well, Twitter has given rise to Fake Pew Research. The feed delivers demographic factoids that are a mite more unusual than the ones promulgated by Real Pew.”

American Journalism Review covers FakePewResearch

Anna — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:59:56 +0000

In “84 Percent of Our Followers Like Our Tweets!” The American Journalism Review interviews several Bureau Chiefs.

“A Pew Research Center study on religion in America spawned a Twitter feed that pokes fun at everything from Wolf Blitzer and Jay-Z to geography and ex-girlfriends.

Fake Pew Research launched September 19 and already has nearly 10,000 followers. Like everything he and his fellow Fake AP Stylebook contributors produce, creator Ken Lowery says their goal is to make themselves laugh. And if they entertain other people in the process, even better.”

99.9999 percent of those surveyed agree, FakePewResearch worth following

Anna — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:57:26 +0000

The Bureauchiefs have launched a new twitter feed, available for you at http://twitter.com/#!/fakepewresearch.
The Atlantic comments “Fake Polls Aren’t as Funny as Fake Grammar Tips.”

Bureau Chief Happenings

Anna — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:32:12 +0000

I’m giving a talk at the Salt Lake City Library on Ocotber 20th! If you are in the area, come on out. If you aren’t in the area, this is the perfect excuse to book your annual fall Utah vacation!

Is Adam Warrock coming to your town?

Mike gives everybody a peek behind the curtain of comics retail.

RJ White wars people of the dangers of Philadelphia.