Blog like a journalist
The revolutionary gleam has faded. Yet blogging remains at the center of the digital media toolbox. Previously published at Medium. From the vantage point of 2014, offering advice on how to write a...
View ArticleTalking about blogging and journalism at Harvard
I’m looking forward to meeting with folks at Harvard’s Kennedy School at 11:40 a.m. today to talk about blogging and journalism. Not to give too much away, but I’ll be using this slideshow as a...
View ArticleTalking about blogging at the Kennedy School
Here is the slideshow for a talk I gave earlier today on blogging. And here is the longer post on which it is based. Many thanks to the Harvard Kennedy School’s Communications Program and the...
View ArticleBlogging is dead. Long live blogging. Or, why the Substack hype is much ado...
Same as it ever was. Photo (cc) 2006 by Sofia Gk. Previously published at GBH News. I have nothing against Substack. The newsletter platform seems like a clean, simple tool aimed at helping independent...
View ArticleMedia Nation’s 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in...
View ArticleAfter the fall: Thinking about blogging in the post-social media era
Old-school blogger. Image via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve been blogging since 2002, which makes me something of an expert on how the medium has changed over time. I’ve been thinking lately about some...
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