The Rover
In the news game we work long hours to produce the newspaper you're holding -
by the way, is a unit of measurement defined as the point size of the font - 12-point type uses a 12-point em. An en is one-half of an em. Theoretically, the dash is the length of one M.)
When you think about em dashes, you probably first think of editorials, where they often make appearances in the service of forming little kickers at the end of sentences - 17
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