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I'm going to get into the more nuanced side of being a blogger AND a journalist in the very near future, but you're partially correct. When I first started new
by jolie 16y ago
I'm going to get into the more nuanced side of being a blogger AND a journalist in the very near future, but you're partially correct.
When I first started news blogging, I was directly told by my editor (Richard MacManus) that my writing was, while perfectly correct, too dry/boring to get any kind of significant pageviews. He and Marshall Kirkpatrick taught me how to carefully interject analysis and heavily qualified opinion (which was always identified as such) into a blog post to make a kind of news/opinion hybrid.
It's a delicate art, indeed. And a topic for a different post. =)
- ErrantX 16y agoThat's good to hear. I think journalism like your own is likely to become the saviour of the trade, as it were. Such rigorous writing is never given the time in print media. Hell; I wrote for a monthly that had ample time for fact checking but just didn't want to spend the money :(
- MaysonL 16y agoPlease: name some names. Your description of the ideal journalist is fairly good, but doesn't really tell us anything about the real world.
- jolie 16y agoNaming names amounts to either hero-worship or gossip/slander. I plan to go into more real-world application of these principles for digital media journalists soon, though. I've already started posting in that series, called "Be a Better Journo." Believe me, I would LOVE to call people out, and I can give a specific example for a good journo/blogger and a bad one for each of these 10 points.