If the future of news is online, newspapers are still figuring out exactly what that means and the best way to go about it. That’s the conclusion Douglas McIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street comes to after analyzing 25 top U.S. newspapers’ Websites. McIntyre, editor of the financial news Website, gave A grades to only two: […]
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Making life work as a writer and mom
Today I’m guest blogging at The Urban Muse, Susan Johnston’s popular freelance writing blog. The subject is how to make life work as a writer and mom. Here’s a little taste: I didn’t set out to be a freelance writer. It’s the compromise I made in order to do it all, be a writer and […]
News University offers online courses and Webinars
I’ve written before about online resources that freelancers can use or classes they can take to improve their writing or multimedia skills or learn new ones. One of the biggest sources of online classes is News University, a project of The Poynter Institute funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Since it […]
What freelancers should know about podcasting
Podcasting sounds intimidating. Maybe it’s the word: it conjures up images of pod people from old sci-fi movies. In reality, there’s nothing scary about podcasting. It’s just another way of producing a story, albeit in audio rather than written form. I reached that conclusion based on two recent podcasting experiences. The latest is an interview […]
Lessons learned from May blogathon
A month ago I had the crazy notion to blog for 31 days straight. For reasons I still don’t understand, two dozen other freelance writers hitched their wagons to the idea and joined me. 31 posts later, I’m at the finish line and here’s what I discovered: It’s not that hard to blog every day, […]
The art of the link
If you’re a writer and you work online, you need to know how to write a lead, nut graph, headline, deck – and how to link. Linking means including live Web addresses or URLs in your story to information related to whatever it is you’re writing about. The art of the link is in putting […]