I’m taking a cue from public companies and issuing a quarterly report on this blog. I started WordCount as a New Year’s resolution, so the end of March marked the end of my first quarter as a blogger. Here are some highlights: Readership – More people are discovering the blog. Page views grew exponentially over […]
Archives for 2008
Why I'm Proud to Call Myself a Reporter
I’d planned to write about something else today, but it can wait. The 2008 Pulitzer Prizes came out yesterday, the newspaper industry’s highest honors. The Washington Post won six, a record for the paper, including the esteemed Public Service award for its reports on sub-par treatment of war veterans at Walter Reed Hospital. The paper […]
CJR Covers Biz News Sections' Demise
Maybe I should be pitching stories to the Columbia Journalism Review. CJR, the venerable bimonthly covering the news industry that Columbia University’s Journalism School publishes, just filed this story about the demise of the daily newspaper standalone business section. I wrote about this back in February, when the Denver Post announced it was folding its […]
More Spring Training – U. Texas Online Journalism Symposium
Here’s another tidbit on the subject of teaching yourself about online news. The University of Texas at Austin is hosting its annual International Symposium on Online Journalism today and tomorrow, April 4 and 5. Seminars will cover topics such as how online journalists can take advantage of the Web’s multimedia capabilities, and social networking and […]
Spring Training for Freelancers
Baseball players aren’t the only ones who use springtime to warm up for the regular season. With winter behind us, the writing conference season is in full swing. Conferences can be a good way to inject new life into your freelance business – and pardon the pun – put some spring back in your writing. […]
Taking Time Off
Sometimes even the most hard-core freelancer has to step away from the keyboard and recharge the old writing batteries. I did last over the past week on a trip to central Oregon. Not far from Bend, I hiked the Deschutes River Trail, which passes waterfalls like this one, Dillon Falls. I also skied at Mt. […]