UPDATE: Online News Association members receive a $10 discount off the full Webinar price. To access the discount code, go to the Journalists.org Discounts page. Join ONA here. News U. and the Knight Digital Media Center are hosting a Webinar on social networks on Tuesday, April 14, 2 to 3 p.m. EDT. The Webinar, called […]
WordCount online media news for week of March 27
Online media business highlights of the past week: A group of reporters displaced when Denver’s Rocky Mountain News folded have started an online-only news outfit called InDenverTimes.com. The basic news service will be free, with subscriptions available for interactive features. While community news ventures like InDenverTimes.com, newspaper companies and other online entrepreneurs continue to explore […]
5 easy ways to add value to your freelance business
Right now the freelance market is crammed with laid off writers, editors and other creative types trying their hand at self employment. With so much supply, it’s important to stand out. One way to do that is by offering some added value to work you perform for existing and new clients. What’s added value? It’s […]
WordCount media business roundup for week of Feb. 27
UPDATED ON FEB. 28 – News from the online news business this week. Read all about it: The Rocky Mountain News shuts down forever, leaving another major American city a one-paper town. Rival Denver Post pays tribute in Rocky’s Last Run. Hearst Corp., which owns the San Francisco Chronicle and other dailies, attempts to avert […]
WordCount weekly digital news biz recap week of Feb. 20
In the news this week – the best blogs, the best newspaper websites, the best story on the mortgage crisis, content worth paying for, and a digital news conference to attend. Read all about it: Time Magazine names its top 25 blogs for 2009 including Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Lifehacker, MetaFilter and The […]
High school confidential: journalism's changing, but jobs are still out there
High school girls still dream of being Rory Gilmore, the fictional daughter in The Gilmore Girls TV show who headed straight from a Yale journalism degree to a job covering Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. That’s what I discovered at career day at my old high school last week. More than 80 girls from St. Mary’s […]