SIGRID SALUCOP

Journal

  • Why Journalists Should Engage With Their Readers: A View from Slovakia

    Why Journalists Should Engage With Their Readers: A View from Slovakia

    What happens when journalists join in the discussion in the often-frightening comments section below their articles? That’s one of the questions I sought to answer in my book, Discussing the News: the uneasy alliance of participatory journalists and the critical public, published earlier this year. Read more

  • Ghostwriters Haunt Our Illusions About Solitary Authors

    Ghostwriters Haunt Our Illusions About Solitary Authors

    Until recently, any conversation about ghostwriting would have quickly wandered into the murky and more disreputable parts of commercial literary production, such as hoaxes and forgeries or, in academic circles, the spectre of contract plagiarism. Over the course of the last decade, this has changed. Read more

  • Friday Essay: A Lament for the Lost Art of Letter-Writing

    Friday Essay: A Lament for the Lost Art of Letter-Writing

    Of all the eulogies at her funeral, the most arresting was a letter she’d written at 23, read aloud by a former housemate, Delia. Our friend had been travelling at the time; negotiating a fledgling relationship, digesting the reality of her diagnosis, preparing for the suddenly precarious unfolding of her life. Read more

  • Thank You, Rutherhausen & Clay

    Thank You, Rutherhausen & Clay

    I decided to get “Little Willow and the Enchanted Empanada” out earlier than planned because of a literacy program that will be launched in the second quarter of 2023. This is the first book from the Little Willow series and it is very special to me because the illustrator is my sister Sissel. Our dad… Read more

  • ChatGPT: how to prevent it becoming a nightmare for professional writers

    ChatGPT: how to prevent it becoming a nightmare for professional writers

    Nearly half of white-collar professionals have tried using ChatGPT to help with their work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000 people at blue chips such as Google, JP Morgan and McKinsey. That’s staggering, considering the AI chatbot was only released to the public in November. It’s potentially very exciting for the future… Read more

  • Wilfred’s to Reopen Year-End

    Wilfred’s to Reopen Year-End

    Wilfred’s, Salucop Group, Inc.’s retail shop will “likely” reopen at the beginning of the fourth quarter this year. The shop, according to its management, has been closed a month before the lockdown in March in anticipation of what was then referred to as a mystery virus from China. The retail store is still not open… Read more