Advice for blogging journalists from Cecelia Hanley

Cecelia Hanley, Chew on this blogger for The Gazette, offered some blogging advice in an email. This is one of several posts related to Bloggers share lots of advice. Have a general idea on what you want to write about. Yes, blogging is conversational, but it should have a point, not just stream of consciousness. Even if it’s a [...]

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Advice for blogging journalists from Cindy Hadish

Cindy Hadish, Homegrown blogger for The Gazette, offered some blogging advice in an email. I wrote earlier about Cindy and her blog. This is one of several posts related to Bloggers share lots of advice. Some of what I’d say you’ve already heard. Mainly, choosing a topic you’re passionate about makes it more likely that you’ll stick [...]

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Advice for blogging journalists from Justin Foss

Justin Foss, This JustIN blogger for The Gazette, answered my blogging questions in an email. This is one of several posts related to Bloggers share lots of advice. How is blogging different from writing stories and how is it similar? Blogging is different to me because I can present an idea that might not be [...]

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Advice for blogging journalists from Todd Dorman

Todd Dorman, 24-Hour Dorman blogger for The Gazette, responded to my request for advice for blogging journalists. This is one of several posts related to Bloggers share lots of advice. I think the most surprising thing for me about blogging is that after 18 months It’s still a crap shoot. I figured I’d be an [...]

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Advice for blogging journalists from Scott Dochterman

Scott Dochterman, Doc’s Office blogger for The Gazette, responded to my request for advice for blogging journalists. This is one of several posts related to Bloggers share lots of advice. In the relative short time I’ve blogged, I’d say I’ve learned four strong lessons through trial and error. Timing is everything. The best time to [...]

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Advice for blogging journalists from Adam Belz

Adam Belz, The Hot Beat blogger for The Gazette, answered my blogging questions in an email. I wrote earlier about Adam and his blog. This is one of several posts related to Bloggers share lots of advice. How is blogging different from writing stories and how is it similar? Differences: My tone on the blog [...]

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Bloggers share lots of advice

In my early days as a journalism trainer, I made my mark by compiling helpful handouts. I thought I had a lot of good ideas on the topics I trained on and I compiled tip sheets that people told me they found helpful. That approach (and sharing those handouts liberally online at No Train, No [...]

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Help me plan a workshop for bloggers

I want to crowdsource much of the content for my workshop this week, The Blogger’s Voice. I want to help journalists who are beginning bloggers understand how blogging is different from writing stories or a column. I have lots of thoughts on this, but I want to share more than my thoughts. So I welcome [...]

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A role focused on innovation: C3 Coach

This will be my column in Monday’s Gazette: I came to Cedar Rapids to do two things: Lead the news staff of The Gazette and GazetteOnline and change the way media companies operate. I’m shifting my attention now full-time to the second pursuit: transformation. I will not explain the changes in our news organization here. The [...]

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What if advertising doesn’t recover with the economy?

What if the cyclical part of the advertising collapse does not come back after the end of the cycle? Lad Paul, an old friend and colleague from the Des Moines Register who recently retired as executive editor of the New York Times News Service and is now consulting, asked that question recently on my Facebook [...]

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Community involvement poses ethical challenges for journalists

Balancing community involvement with journalistic detachment is a continuing challenge for many journalists. If you become too involved with community affairs, you can’t write about them credibly. And if you are too detached from the community, you are less likely to know what’s going on and to understand context. The balance can be especially challenging [...]

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A more thoughtful approach to ethics in social media

Common sense works better than strict rules in guiding journalists’ use of social media. I encourage people concerned about journalism ethics in social networks to read Leah Betancourt‘s Mashable post How Social Media is Radically Changing the Newsroom (the headline is overbroad; the post is well-focused on journalism ethics). Betancourt passes along some helpful suggestions [...]

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