Want to know why newspapers are cutting jobs while online media companies can’t hire people fast enough? Advertising. Last year, Internet advertising jumped 26 percent to $21.2 billion, according to the 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report released this week from The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. It’s the fourth year of record growth for online […]
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2008 Knight News Challenge winners show future of news is digital
The 25 winners of this year’s Knight News Challenge offer a taste of things to come in the news business. And it’s digital. Sixteen journalists, bloggers and technology trend setters received a total of $5.5 million in the 2008 contest for their innovative ideas for gathering and distributing the news, particularly local news. The contest […]
Dennis Cass on book launch 2.0
Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist, teacher, book doctor and also really funny. His first book, HEAD CASE: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, is out in paperback and he’s started a Website to promote it. He also created this short video on YouTube that skewers all the Internet promotional […]
New WordPress feature, Possibly Related Posts
If you have a blog on WordPress.com, you may have noticed a new feature called Possibly Related that links posts from other blogs in the Comments section of posts on your blog. The crew at Automattic introduced the feature in late April to add an element of social networking to blogging. At least that’s what […]
"Marley & Me" author interview
Freelance writer Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell interviews Marley & Me author John Grogan today on her blog for writers, K.C.’s Write for You. Grogan worked as a newspaper columnist and magazine editor before writing the book, which spent 76 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In their Q&A, Grogan explains how keeping a journal helped […]
How to write great freelance blog posts
I’ve written about how great starting a blog can be for your freelance writing business. You can use a blog to promote yourself, develop a beat, make connections, improve your skills and if you’re lucky, pick up some paid gigs. But sooner or later you’ll find yourself staring at the screen thinking, “What can I […]