Useful resources

I’ve updated my web links over the past couple of weeks.
Among my favorite additions is The Renegade Writer, which is a solid blog about freelance writing that also has a markets wiki where writers can go and share some of the experiences they’ve have had querying or writing for various publications. It’s great to see [...]

The word economy

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 [...]

“Link journalism”: Sharp or shiftless?

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 [...]