I am still sick. But today I had to do an interview for a 2,000-word company case study. I’d already postponed it once due to being sick and one of the guys I was scheduled to interview is going on vacation for two weeks, so there was no question of postponing it again. And surprise, […]
Even freelancers have to take a sick day sometimes
I am sick. Very sick. With some kind of super flu bug. So sick I actually postponed a phone interview I had scheduled for this morning. So sick I’m having trouble typing this without making mistakes. So sick this measly post is going to be it for me today. Because even freelancers have to take […]
Tina Brown to headline Online News Association's September annual conference
Tina Brown, former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and currently working on a start-up news aggregator Website, will headline the 2008 Online News Association conference Sept. 11-13 in Washington D.C. Brown is working on the project for media mogul Barry Diller’s Internet enterprise, InterActive Corp. According to this report in Radar Magazine, […]
Online Journalism Review shuttered, Niles starts SensibleTalk
If there was ever a need for a scholarly discussion of online media it is now, when more people are turning away from newspapers and to the Internet for their news. But don’t tell that to the University of Southern California. Earlier this week, the university’s Annenberg School of Journalism pulled the plug on the […]
Will freelance writers save newspapers?
Are freelancers the wave of the future for newspapers? They might be. Daily newspapers are trimming jobs and looking for other ways to cut costs, and one way to do that is by using contract workers such as freelancers. Some papers, including major dailies such as the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, routinely […]
Time out: why writers need to unplug on the weekends
If you use rechargeable batteries you know they don’t last forever. They work, they run low and then you recharge them. Writers are like that too. We can’t work non-stop without the juices running low. But if you’re like me and you spend your work life tied to a computer, email and the Internet, it’s […]