What you’re reading marks the 100th post on this blog, WordCount, which I started as an easy and free way to post my resume and clips online where prospective editors could see them. Very quickly it evolved into a continuing examination of how online media is changing the business of freelance writing. I did a […]
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 […]
I'm in a New York state of mind
I’m in New York today meeting with editors. In honor of the trip, here’s five media-related things I like about New York: 1. The New Yorker – My favorite magazine. From week to week, you never know what stories you’ll find – wild boars, smallpox, Seymour Hirsch’s latest Iraq war expose, a George Clooney profile. […]
NY Times, SF head list of top newspaper Websites
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: […]