Don’t just slap the topic on top of the story
Note to self: “Label headline” is not a headline.
Label headlines like Label headlines carry a double problem.… Read the full article
communication
Time spent reading (statistics): for fun
Americans average 16.5 minutes a day
The share of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by more than 30% since 2004, according to the 2018 American Time Use Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.… Read the full article
CEO pay disclosures ‘like reading War and Peace’
Proxies long and mind-numbing
So much for the SEC’s new rules requiring companies to write more clearly about executive compensation.
This year’s compensation discussion and analysis (CD&A) sections — the first crop created under the new SEC mandate — are almost impossible to read.… Read the full article
Why is clarity so important?
6 myths of complicated copy
Why make copy clearer and more readable?
In “Complex to Clear: Managing Clarity in Corporate Communication,” two researchers at the University of St.… Read the full article