News you can use from the online news business: Seal Beach Daily – Take two former reporters, add Web design and blogging skills and you’ve got the Seal Beach Daily, a virtual daily newspapers covering the neighborhoods in and around Seal Beach, a beach town that straddles the border of Orange and Los Angeles counties. […]
Archives for November 2008
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving. If you’re reading this on Thanksgiving, you’re spending too much time online. Walk through the leaves. Watch a football game. Eat a drumstick. Enjoy the day.
The WordCount guide to queries
Long weekends like the four-day Thanksgiving holiday that starts tomorrow when nobody’s in the office are great times to work on projects you can’t get around to when you have story deadlines and editors breathing down your neck, projects like crafting queries to new or not so new-to-you publications. To help get the query juices […]
Road trip
I’m on the road today, visiting editors in southern California and then taking a few days off. While I’m gone, please enjoy this rerun of some popular WordCount posts about visiting and working with editors. What editors want from freelance writers 4 ways to bring good karma to your freelance writing business Top 10 qualities […]
Guest post on The Golden Pencil
I’m the special guest blogger today over at The Golden Pencil, a b5 Media blog for freelance writers that’s run by host Jenny Cromie, who recently took over the gig. My Q&A covers a variety of topics, including how I got into the freelance business, how the current economy is changing the freelance landscape and […]
WordCount recap – weekly news from the digital media biz
I’m starting what I hope will become a WordCount Friday feature, a recap of news and commentary on freelancing and the media business as reported by other blogs and news outlets this week. Happy reading: The case for independent news sites as profit-makers – David Westphal, a senior fellow at USC’s Annenberg’s Center on Communication […]