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Guest Blogger: Kathi Macias | Writing Methodds
Information in A Nutshell | 12 hours ago by Felice Gerwitz
“Herding Cattle” by Kathi MaciasHerding cattle, another obviously relevant title for writers and authors.Well, okay, maybe not. But let me explain. Better yet, let me illustrate.• “They threw me off the hay truck about noon. read more
Obama’s Fort Hood Speech – A Lesson.
Joe Gullo | 23 hours ago by Joe
Yesterday I remember watching a live feed from my computer of the Fort Hood memorial. It was sad, tear jerking moment and I would like to send my condolences to those who have lost their lives and to their family and friends. I saw something in Obama read more
The Fort Hood Killer and the Media
Everyday Citizen | November 11th 2009 by Everyday Citizen
For various reasons, I have closely followed the story as details emerge about the Fort Hood killer. Unfortunately, since I have so far been getting the story from the mainstream TV media – mostly CNN and MSNBC – I have also endured much media read more
What drives traffic to news websites?
Mark Pack's blog | November 11th 2009 by Mark Pack
Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: The Newspaper Marketing Agency's latest (September) figures (PowerPoint slides) for the sources of web traffic to newspaper websites paintsa useful picture of which social media sites really matter - and which don' read more
You are wrong! You are RIGHT!
Vanity Moments | November 11th 2009 by Tom Thomas
The Memorable Birthday Wish time. A student of visual journalism sharing the class space with seven others to make a total of eight. As we were visual journalism students, we had a special subject to study, the history of cinema. We got a superb te read more
Thank God Daphne Zuniga can Explain Hydrogen Sulfide to Us
Celebrity Disaster | November 10th 2009 by norman rogers
Celebrities should always become advocates for things. Whether it would involve advertising or going on television shows or appearing in public with sandwich boards, I don't know. I do know this--the Huffington Post is the place where celebrities read more
How Social Media is Taking the News Local
Tech stories from all around the web - TechChuck | November 10th 2009
Any news organization’s web site can get a story picked up by popular sites such as Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Digg, or even Fark, resulting in a bump in page views. But that’s a traffic anomaly. A key metric media companies want to grow is read more
We Proudly Display Our Award
Politicus.US | November 10th 2009 by Politicus
Our comment queue shuddered today with a very welcome announcement from AskCherLock.com that we have been chosen as a recipient of the Best Blog award. We are not only honored because of the fact that it came from our friends at AskCherLock, but that read more
Journalism as Friend Building
Outside The Beltway | OTB | November 10th 2009 by James Joyner
Ezra Klein points out that, while journalists like to think of themselves as intrepid sleuths, the best of them are social networkers moreso than detectives. If you go back to Woodward and Bernstein, Woodward met Felt back when he was serving in the read more
God’s plan for me
Skateaway...that's all | November 10th 2009 by Anthea
Whenever I regret past mistakes I think that my life has given me an incredible faith in God which most people don't have. I know I can do what God wants me to do. read more
One mother's son
Heresy Corner | November 10th 2009 by The Heresiarch
As Beowulf knew, there are few creatures more dangerous than an angry, grieving mother. Jacqui Janes, unsatisfied that the prime minister - a busy man, presumably - took the time to speak to her personally to apologise for the bad handwriting and sp read more
Earthquake on West Sumatra - the aftermath.
Photo District Jakarta (PD-JKT) | November 10th 2009 by Thomas
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men” Ignazio Silon More than 1,100 people died. Hundreds of thousands of buildings were severely damaged. Many lives changed ... read more
Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.
Never a dull moment ... | November 10th 2009 by Niki Turner
So I'm standing in line at the grocery store the other night surreptitiously eyeballing the tabloids. You know, the ones with the headlines that have Brangelina splitting up on one page and adopting quadruplets in the next issue? Or the ones with pat read more
Army Terrorists, Right Wingers Whining, Endless War: Ken- Where…
Schreiner's Media Landscape | November 10th 2009 by Ken Schreiner
For the first five years of writing this blog all I got was angrier. OK, once I moved it over to my website, all those hits registered to my company website http://schreinervideo.com which pushed me... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we read more
Daily Express lambastes Diana comic competitor for showing facts
The World as it should be | November 10th 2009
The world's greatest comic, the Daily Express, today launched a scathing attack on a competitor for what it describes as a “flagrant publishing of facts” about Diana, Princess of Wales in a newly released comic book. “The story of Diana is no read more
“Order, order,” the reality of ambitions
Plenty2say | November 10th 2009 by Chris Gaynor
BACK in the day (well, four years ago, before finding my calling as wanting to be a journalist/writer/blogger, PLENTY wanted to do law. Fortunately, at that time, there was a place on a London course (a good one). However, after writing strings and read more
No Joke: Nota Bene for 9 November 2009
Scholars and Rogues | November 10th 2009 by Scholars and Rogues
Well I figured I’d give you all a break and spare you the wacky and profane puns and snark. I’m going to directly quote a single line or phrase from each of the links; the quote may have little or nothing to do with the subject. Enjoy! &# read more
Twitter and Fort Hood - Addressing the Inevitable Backlash
Twittown - The social apps and widgets blog and community | November 9th 2009
Any discussion about last week's Fort Hood massacre must inevitably begin with a blanket condemnation of the shootings and conveyance of sympathies for the victims and their loved ones. And so let me do so: the shootings at Fort Hood were unimaginabl read more
News Corp Attack on Google Continues
Plato on-line | November 9th 2009 by pocholo peralta
So News Corp. continues it’s useless, unnecessary attack on Google. Or is it?: ‘News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch wants to put a permanent end to “parasite” Google’s “kleptomania” when it comes to content on his newspapers’ web read more
Where Can You Find Pleasure and Search the World for Treasure?
The Vigilant Lens | November 9th 2009 by Lens1
You know what I’m sayin? Wink wink, nudge nudge. I think you do. Democrat staffed death panels have not even had a chance to start killing people yet…and the queens over at the Liberty Council are in a fucking tizzy. You know, I just read more
The Definition of Insanity
Freedom Writing | November 9th 2009 by David
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."Albert EinsteinProfessor Einstein never worked for a newspaper. At least, I don't think he did.But, even if he didn't, I have read more
Fall of Berlin Wall Anniversary More Than Just Media Overkill
Politicus.US | November 9th 2009 by Politicus
Considering the amount of coverage that the arbitrarily chosen 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall received, one would think that it was purely, or at least mostly a media event. As it turned out, despite the cold rain falling read more
Bad News Friday usually makes things worse
Scatterbox by Steven Silvers | November 9th 2009
Even in the Internet era, many public companies and government offices still try to minimize bad news by releasing information late on Friday. Sometimes this old ploy works, at least a little. But in most cases you’re just making things worse com read more
Readers to NY Post: Drop Dead
The Unruly of Law | November 9th 2009
Image via WikipediaCirculation at the tabloid New York Post has plummeted nearly 30 percent over the past two-and-a-half years to 508,000, lagging behind the 544,000 copies sold by its tabloid competitor New York Daily News.Media pundits ascribe some read more
Moon Eclipses Washington Times Management
The Unruly of Law | November 9th 2009
Image via WikipediaJonathan Slevin is the new Acting President and Publisher of The Washington Times, replacing Thomas P. McDevitt, who, along with CFO Keith Copperrider and Chairmain Dong Moon Joo, has been booted by the Times and its parent company read more
Covering the Guarantor
The Unruly of Law | November 9th 2009
Image via WikipediaIt's hard to be a watchdog over government, when the government is paying the kennel fees.The (Claremont, N.H.) Eagle Times is expected to close on a $250,000 loan this week from Connecticut River Bank, 75 percent of which is being read more
Paid internship programme in Brazil
intern abroad with idid. - internships in USA, Brazil, China… | November 9th 2009 by kate
EXCLUSIVE PROGRAMME: Only 3 positions available with our new PAID teaching internship programme in Brazil Spend either 6 or 12 months in Brazil. This programme is for those interested in gaining experience Teaching English. You need a background in E read more
The small, scary world of English libel
Heresy Corner | November 9th 2009 by The Heresiarch
I've been taking a look at the evidence submitted to the Culture, Media and Sport select committee - which has been looking at libel and privacy law - by a collection of foreign media organisations.The group, including such big names as CBS, Bloomber read more
When They Stop Doing Parodies, That's When You Complain
An American Lion | November 9th 2009 by norman rogers
It’s hard to find the words to describe phony outrage. I know it when I see it, but it doesn’t reveal itself to me like it used to. Phony outrage is a misdirection play, an argumentative form of the wildcat play they’re using in fo read more
Web writing ad
Plenty2say | November 9th 2009 by Chris Gaynor
NEVER underestimate the importance of learning new skills when it comes to the journalism world, and this next job ad is no exception. The guys/girls at QuickVox.com are looking for intern content writers for their website launching later this month read more
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