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Welcome to the first in a series of posts about beginning blogging for journalists. Want more? View the entire beginning blogging for journalists series. Great image by Kris Hoet on Flickr!
Have you or someone you know been asked to [...]
Scanning my feedback email at MLive, I found an interesting pitch from MSNBC. One of their reporters pitched a special they put together on the quality of U.S. bridges. Sounds like a pretty cool data set.
I checked it out, and the pitch wasn’t spam. Besides the MSNBC bridge project, the reporter also said we could [...]
Columnists are often regarded as the bread and butter of newspapers’ niche sections. Many believe that newspaper readers sometimes buy newspapers for the sole reason of catching their favorite columnist. So, if that’s the case, wouldn’t throngs of web readers flock to a columnist’s new blog?
Not so, as many online news sites have discovered.
Though it [...]
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