Recommended reading for July 15: Harry Potter and more
Top news industry stories this week: J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard series comes to a cinematic end, aggravated over content aggregation & NOTW scandal deepens.
Recommended reading for writers for July 8
The News of the World closes, Google+ debuts, NY Times rolls out LongReads and more must-reads for writers for the week ending July 8, 2011.
Guest post: Cool tools & more at 2011 Digital Journalism Camp
In this guest post, reporter Bill Lascher shares the tech tools and digital media tips he picked up at the recent 2011 Digital Journalism Camp in Portland.
The writer as content curator
Assembling stories or lists based on links to existing information to add value to what’s already out there has become a valued skill for writers and editors.
Writers react to AOL-HuffPost deal: now what?
Lost in coverage of AOL’s $315 million deal for Huffington Post is where it leaves the writers and bloggers who create all their content. What’s in it for them?
8 secrets for getting better HARO query results
Help A Reporter Out (HARO) founder Peter Shankman gives tips for getting the most out of the story source-finding site popular with reporters and other writers.