- The Online Journalism Handbook: the Essentials of Blogging
This breezy guide takes you through all the importnt details about the blogging process: planning, what to write about, styles of blogging and more...
Planning a blog in 3 simple steps
Step 1: Your motives {WHY)
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: How to Write for the Web
A guide written by the pioneering usability experts Jacob Nielsen and John Morkes famously said this in 1997, 12 years ago:
Make your writing concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective.
A summary of the article:
- Users …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: A simpleguide to making money
It is hard for a blogger to make money for living. As per the Knight Digital media Center, to make $36,500 a year, an average salary for a journalist, you'd need to earn $100 a day on your site. At $10 CPM (unlikely, giv…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: seven successful Video blogging models
As you very well know, online video, especially news video is very big. So big that Youtube, which Google bought in 2006, now accounts for more than a quarter of traffic to all Google-owned sites.
So, what types of Vi…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: A simpleguide to professional blogging
An average blog in the Technorati Top 100 blog list is at least 33 months old. This guide to professional blogging is based on Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008, a result of a survey of over 1000 bloggers in 66 …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Journalists who became successful online media moguls
Six journalists stand out as people who saw the future in online publishing before anyone else, started out on their own as have ended up with sizeable new media fortunes: These 6 people are: Josh Marshall, Ariana Huffin…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Basics of online reporting
Let's start with the fundamentals:
The 4 timeless tenets of the Link Economy
Link Economy is a term given by Jeff Jarvis, a blogger and professor of journalism, and denotes the linking nature of the internet and how …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Why Journalists must blog
There is no other way to go about it, so here goes: as a journalist, you must blog to see how humbling, educating and eventually beneficial this is going to be for your career considering the always-on, online, always-up…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Citizen Journalism Basics
Here, we will look at how expert journalists have defined and explained citizen journalism:
Who is a citizen journalist?
Anyone who cares to report about what one sees happening. In words of journalism Professor Jay Ro…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: 10 things the online journalist must know
These are the days of the internet, which will make or break many a journalist's long-term career prospects. The online news medium is noted for its speed and catchment area - for example, a breaking news appears fastest…
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- Online Journalism Handbook: The Best quotes for Journalists
This set of quotes are divided in three parts, and the idea is to look at journalism through four diffrent lenses: online journalism (the future), what is bad with meaas media (the mess), what is bad journalism (past) an…
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- How Social Media can cover live stories responsibly
I am writing this as journalists on Indian News Channels cite police sourecs to refute new rumors of gun fights across Mumbai. Regarding the usage of social media tools, Twitter in specific, veteran blogger and reporter…
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- How the Internet is covering the Mumbai Terror Attacks
Long live the hive mind! The power of the internet to capture information is manifested best during times of strife and special events. The Mumbai Terror Attacks are no exception:
Mainstream news coverage from India a…
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- Mumbai Terror Attacks: A Relief Directory - all useful helpline numbers and how to help
I hope the people of Mumbai and all those unfortunately still trapped inside Hotel Oberoi and Taj survive this ordeal of terror. I am 100% positive we won't give in to the FEAR.
I will do all I can do organize useful …
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