Every time a newspaper or magazine is redesigned, the call for additional white space and images shrink the spaces available for articles. New media publications demand that writing be as concise and interactive as possible. Writers’ roles have shifted. We have to think more like television and radio producers and learn to better [...]
April 15, 2008
Categories: New Media, internet, journalism, linking, print, writing . Tags: sharp writing . Author: writearm . Comments: No Comments
As I continue to go through my bookmarks to pull the blogroll of this site together, I would love to find out which sites about writing that you find most useful, fun or illuminating. I will also be doing some site reviews on this blog. Please post links to sites you feel are worth [...]
March 23, 2008
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Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has been working to circulate a new term that he coined: “link journalism.” It’s the process of aggregating stories from on-line publications and blogs that has made outlets like Drudge and the Huffington Post lucrative with minimal overhead, and could be better applied by existing news publications, or used effectively [...]
March 22, 2008
Categories: New Media, blogging, journalism, linking . Tags: research, sharp . Author: writearm . Comments: No Comments
Over the years, I’ve received multiple emails from wanna-be freelancers asking for help or advice as they tried to launch their writing careers — many more emails than I’ve been able to answer. I’ve always kept a link page available for these visitors, directing them to a few online resources that I thought might be [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: blogging, housekeeping, internet, linking, print, writing . Tags: introduction . Author: writearm . Comments: No Comments