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Contrary to what some believe, newsletters remain a very powerful marketing tool and a great way to get out the news on your […]

The Washington City Paper posted a memo outlining the Washington Post’s blog standards for what works and what doesn’t. Download the pdf or check out the full text at Adrian Monck’s site.
What interests me most about the Post’s process in creating a new blog is the org’s 9-point checklist, which I assume is given to […]

Attention Online Newsers, I’m looking for your advice on the difference between writing for print and writing for web.
Here’s some general standards in web writing that I think we can skip:

Write short (or at least succinct)
Write in scan-able text (using bolding and subheads)
Include multimedia (although this isn’t really always necessary or correct)

But there’s a lot […]

Slate.com recently reported on a University of Oregon study that found “fewer than 2 percent of factually flawed articles are corrected at dailies.”
2 PERCENT!
And even more interesting:
About 69 percent of the 3,600 news sources completed the survey, and they spotted 2,615 factual errors in 1,220 stories. That means that about half of the stories for […]