If you aren’t already reading any of Jakob Nielsen’s work about online writing, you should start. Just recently he published his pick for the news organization with the best Web headlines. And the winner is….the BBC. According to Nielsen, good headlines should…
Many local TV Web sites leave a lot to be desired. They’re better than they used to be, thank goodness, but they still have a long way to go. Too many sites remain hard to navigate, crammed with news, ads,…
So you’ve been laid off or can’t find a job in journalism. Think you can survive on blogging alone? Not so fast, says Scott Joseph. After taking a buyout from the Orlando Sentinel, where he’d spent 20 years as a…
Journalists who don’t Twitter are “crippling [their] online publishing effort,” says OJR’s Robert Niles. In his view, Twitter is the ideal medium for breaking news and delivers information to readers more efficiently than RSS feeds. But how do you write…
National Public Radio is reinventing itself as a multimedia news organization, and is retraining its staff for this new mission. In the latest issue of American Journalism Review, Jennifer Doroh reports that NPR hopes to have 450 staffers up to…
Times are tough in newsrooms all across the country. Dragged down by a sagging economy, TV newsrooms and newspapers are laying off staff and cutting their coverage. If you’re a young journalist, it may be hard to keep your fears…
You might think that question has been resolved, but it keeps coming up. I ran across it again this week in a study of the BBC’s use of blogs by network veteran Alfred Hermida, who now teaches at the University…
More and more new entries in the expanding blogosphere are coming from journalists whose employers now require them to blog. But Erick Schonfeld, who writes for Technorati’s #1 ranked blog, TechCrunch, says when he blogged as a journalist for Time…
One of the things that I’ve noticed about the “online space” is that so many people are so willing to share their expertise. And that’s the idea behind a relatively new site called Wired Journalists. Here’s the mission statement: WiredJournalists.com was…
Here’s something I love about the Internet: the way it forces you to reconsider what you think you already know. Take the passive voice, for example. For years, I’ve urged journalists to avoid it in almost every circumstance. Writing in…
