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Although many news organizations have great writers on staff, many offer little training to reporters who want, or are asked, to blog. In fact, I had no training on blogs at all.
To make up for [...]

Quick - Don’t panic. Those search engine optimization books you invested in and the classes in your newsroom still matter.
But writing for search engines is a strategy that needs updating. It does work great now, but you have to think ahead, and structuring everything for a search engine is only part of the equation for [...]

In a conversation with my doctor a few weeks ago, I learned why some educated people don’t care for local newspapers.
Why? Because half of the content in the local paper is wire copy - written by the WaPo or the NYT. The local media outlets don’t cover the stories that are important to him.
Maybe that [...]

As Twitter gains in popularity (expected to have reached more than 1M users already!), more news orgs are catching on to Twitter and using the microblogging for posting breaking news, re-syndicating feeds and liveblogging.
This is great news! I’ve found more and more news people showing up on the network and have connected with many. I [...]