Blogger Mary Ward offers a breakdown of seven networking sites for journalists. Mary: Without the abundance of social networking sites available, many sites are staking their claim by catering [...]
I started reading Scott Gold’s Los Angeles Times story on Nov. 26 and was ready to find a reason to go somewhere else. I’d read stories like this; I’d reported this: The rebirth of a [...]
Julia Scott is a reporter turned blogger who adapted her print skills> for the web. She currently writes a savvy-spending blog called BargainBabe.com. I asked her to describe the transition. Read [...]
L.A. Times media writer James Rainey did a simple but heartbreaking story: He wandered over to the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration and ticked off how the number of reporters covering [...]
As you develop your writing talent you develop a technical appreciation of quotes--when they help and when they hinder.
Here, from two stories published today, are a couple lessons.
The [...]
Dear readers of Newsthinking,
I thought I'd use the site to recommend good stuff, stuff that print journalism has to do more of if it expects people to continue subscribing. We've got to [...]
I woke up this morning needing a battery charge, something to remind me that there is still a kind and knowing heart beating in a world controlled by Sam Zell and his simple-minded idiots. I read [...]
If you're intrigued with the blurb on the right side of Newsthinking's March 11 home page devoted to promoting my CD, here's the explanation. It grew out of some demo songs I recorded at home and [...]
Nobody says a word in the following story, published in today's Los Angeles Times. Nobody has to. The writer sensed that the absence of public comment when the body of another dead soldier [...]
