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Tweet Let’s pause for a little bit of shameless self-promotion: OK, folks, you can mosey on over to Thou Shall Blog if you’d like. I have a guest blog there. It’s a primer on how to edit yourself. Sure, the blogosphere is great — no editors to get in your way. But also no editors [...]

Tweet Well, I can’t speak for your blog, but I can tell Twitter  has driven traffic to my blog. But then again, I’m a social-media evangelist. I’ve written before out the the usefulness of Twitter for journalists. I’ve experienced the utility of Twitter on my own beat, parenting. Right now, I’m setting up a series [...]

Tweet I’m starting a new feature here on Save the Media: short takes. I’m hoping it will be a way to share quickly some cool stuff other journo bloggers are doing in a concise manner. So here goes. (And I promise, I will get back to my series on how social-networking sites can help journalists.) [...]

Tweet I’m in the midst of a series of blog posts explaining how journalists can use social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Linked In. But I’ve decided to interrupt the series temporarily for a very important post: Questions about new media that journalists have asked me over the past several months. I feel this [...]

Tweet     Today’s post is second in my series of how journalists can use social-networking sites to connect with readers and help them make sense of the world. MySpace can be useful for journalists in much the same ways as I outlined in my post about journalists on Facebook, with some notable differences. Before [...]

Tweet One of the more interesting aspects of the interactive Web for journalists is the ability to connect with readers directly through social-networking sites. I really believe journalists have just begun to see the value of social networking as a reader-interaction, news-gathering and news-dissemination tool. In 10 years, I suspect, we’ll look back and wonder [...]

Tweet My post today is for journalists who haven’t yet tried new media tools or new types of online content and are waiting for their newspapers to set up some type of training program to teach them how to do it. My suggestion: Don’t wait. Newspapers are in such crisis right now, that we all need [...]

Tweet I think Twitter can be one of the more useful interactive Web tools for media organizations. So when Old Media New Tricks offered some right-on-point suggestions for how news organizations can use Twitter, I just had to blog about it. Journalists on Twitter OMNT’s post raises some key points about Twitter, particularly for journalists, [...]

Tweet I’m going to depart from my usual tips today, and give a pep talk. Why? Because I need one. This has been a particularly tough week in a series of difficult months years for journalists.  This week was the first time that journalists I know personally lost their jobs. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer joined the [...]

Tweet I had the thrill today of guest posting at Yan Susanto’s Thou Shall Blog. I wrote about the basics of good writing that I culled from nearly 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. It was fun trying to appeal to a new audience, and his readers welcomed me warmly. But the best part: It’s [...]