2009 MEDIA COVERAGE

National Punctuation Day® makes the news! See coverage and interviews with Jeff Rubin from television, radio, newspapers, blogs (weblogs), and podcasts.

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2009 TV Coverage of National Punctuation Day®
	Detroit Free Press September 24, 2009
	KTXL Sacramento, CA

2009 Radio Coverage of National Punctuation Day®
	KFOR Lincoln, NE The Morning Show
	GCN Dr. Katherine Albrecht
	WBGZ Alton, IL Mike Montgomery

2009 Articles about National Punctuation Day®

Note: Most of these articles are PDF files. A PDF reader may be downloaded here.

INTERNATIONAL

Saving language, one comma at a time — Toronto Star, Canada, September 2009

We May Also Need a National Punctuation Day — Modern Ghana News, October 2009

Our national shame. Period — National Post, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 2009

National Punctuation Day: Professor’s Pet Peeves — National Post, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 2009

Literacy’s wane punctuates a period of gloom — Times Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, September 2009

NATIONAL

National Punctuation Day: Take The Huffington Post Punctuation Quiz! — The Huffington Post, September 2009

WEST

Want to enter a ?!“,;??!:“”! baking contest? — The Los Angeles Times, September 2009

West County Notes — Contra Costa (CA) Times, September 2009

It’s $#!@ Punctuation Day already!? — Deseret News, Salt Lake City, September 2009

Punctuate This — Santa Barbara (CA) Daily Sound, September 2009

School Notes: Whittier baking contest to kick-off National Punctuation Day celebration — Whittier (CA) Daily News, September 2009

EAST

Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It, This Guy Cares About Writing’s Jots and Tittles — The Washington Post, September 2009

John Kelly's Washington: On-line chat with Jeff Rubin — The Washington Post, September 2009

Punctuation errors can cost jobs, money, esteem — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 2009

Looking for a reason to bake? National Punctuation Day — Canton (OH) Repository, September 2009

John Kiminicki column — Long Island (NY) Business News, October 2009

SOUTH

Kids: ‘Hooray for punctuation!’ — Miami Herald, September 2009

Stop! Pause, momentarily, to appreciate punctuation; National Punctuation Day begins — Palm Beach (FL) Post, September 2009

Pumped about punctuation — Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune

Today is National Punctuation Day...!? — Tuscaloosa (AL) News

MIDWEST

National Punctuation Day is Thursday — Chicago Tribune, September 2009

Today We Salute Punctuation! — Cincinnati Busines Courier, September 2009

Comma sense — Janesville (WI) Gazette Extra, September 2009

Appreciate the comma on National Punctuation Day — The State News (Michigan State University), September 2009

The misunderstood drama of the comma! — Enid (OK) News, September 2009

SOUTHWEST

There’s no ? about it ... dots, squiggles important — San Antonio (TX) Express-News, September 2009

MAGAZINES

Share Your Tales of Bad Grammar or Copy Editing at The E&P Pub — On ‘National Punctuation Day’ — Editor & Publisher, September 2009

Its’ National Punctuation Day! — Runner’s World, September 2009

Pesky Apostrophes? Elusive Ellipses? Here’s help — School Library Journal, September 2009

Get ‘Punct’! National Punctuation Day Celebrates Proper Use of Confusing Squiggles — Weekly Reader, September 2009

BLOGS

National Punctuation Day — Felt & Wire, September 2009

National Punctuation Day — Society for the Promotion Of Good Grammar, September 2009

‘Hello...my name is Eileen ... and I’m ... an ellipsis abuser ...’ — Ragan.com, September 2009

Time to ... party? Yes! — Raising Arizona Kids, September 2009

Apostrophes, colons and dashes, oh my! — Personal Money Store, September 2009

Celebrate National Punctuation Day — CraftGossip.com September 2009

Happy National Punctuation Day! — Susan Heim on Parenting September 2009

National Punctuation Day: Stop Dragging Your Comma Around — January Magazine, September 2009