Arianna Huffington on AOL, Stephen King on the creative process, Grammar Girl on proofreading and other recommended reading for writers for April 15, 2011.
Recommended reading for Feb. 11: AOL-HuffPo roundup
What Jay Rosen, Paid Content, the LA Times and others have to say about AOL’s $315 million deal to buy Huffington Post means for writers.
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?
Who's who in digital media – 25 trendsetters you need to know
A funny thing happened on the way to compiling this list of digital media trendsetters. I’d put out a call to writers and editors on LinkedIn asking for names of industry folks I should include. But instead of news industry luminaries, I kept getting social media trailblazers. Wait a minute, I wanted to say, you […]
WordCount recap – Weekly news from the digital media biz
A scenario for news – Prognosticating about the future of the news business on his BuzzMachine blog, industry guru Jeff Jarvis says there’s definitely a place for freelancers. The future of news is all about community – covering it and working with it. Examples of this already abound, such as the Seal Beach Daily community […]
Arianna Huffington, blogger mogul
The first time I ever heard of Arianna Huffington was in 1994 when her then husband Michael was the Republican challenger for incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein’s U.S. Senate seat in California. My workspace in the Orange County Register’s newsroom was right next to the cubicle of the political reporter covering the election. During the race, […]