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WordCount online media recap for week of May 2

By Michelle V. Rafter on May 2, 2009 | 2 Responses

Conde Nast closes Portfolio – The publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker shut down its glossy business monthly just two years after launch. According to news reports, Conde Naste had planned to spend $100 million over 5 years on the title, which was ultimately done in by declining ad sales. The mag’s Portfolio.com [...]

Posted in Blogs, Online news | Tagged Craig Silverman, Freelance Writing Jobs, John McIntyre, KnowledgeWebb, online media, Portfolio.com, Regret the Error, The Daily Beast, The Quake at Conde Nast, Tina Brown, Twitter, UC Berkeley journalism school, Webbmedia Group, You Don't Say | 2 Responses

Best Blogs for Writers

By Michelle V. Rafter on February 13, 2008 | 21 Responses

When writers aren’t writing, they’re reading about how to be a better writer, or be a better marketer of their writing, or about who else they could be writing for. That’s what I found when I asked freelance, newspaper and magazine writers and editors to name some of their favorite blogs for writers. It’s an [...]

Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Writing | Tagged AboutFreelanceWriting, Anne Wayan, Blogs, Bob Bly's Blog, Copyblogger, Copyediting, Copywriter Underground, Copywriting, Dan Santow, Deborah Ng, Dianna Huff's B2B MarCom Writer Blog, Erik Sherman's WriterBiz, Freelance Switch, FreelanceWritingGigs.com, Freelancing, InkThinker, Irreverent Freelancer, John McIntyre, Jugglezine, Kathy Kehrli, Kristen King, Linda Formichelli, Magazines, Michael Stelzner's Writing White Papers, Newspapers, Publicity Hound, Publishing, Publishing 2.0, Romenesko, Susan Johnston Home, The Bad Pitch Blog, The Golden Pen, The Renegade Writer, TheUrbanMuse, Toddie Downs, Web Content Writer Tips, WordHappy, WordWise, Writing, You Don't Say | 21 Responses