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Don’t just start blogging. Spend some time scoping things out first.
Almost daily, people e-mail me to ask me for advice about their online-media careers. I just got such an inquiry this morning. It started out pretty typically:
“I found your Contentious.com recently. I’m very interested in online writing as a career. Can [...]
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Do you treat online media like a spectator sport, or do you really have skin in this game?
Recently, my Poynter colleague Roy Peter Clark caused a stir with his article Your Duty To Read the Paper. There, he wrote:
“I pose this challenge to you: It is your duty as [...]
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MSU prof Dave Poulson wants to lead his students into the murky waters of online media.
(NOTE: I’m cross-posting this from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, since I thought Contentious readers might find it interesting as well.)
Today I received an intriguing query from my colleague Dave Poulson, associate director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan [...]
Recently Lisa Williams wrote about a media literacy for kids:
“One of the most basic aspects of media literacy for pre-reading kids is the ability to distinguish an ad from other content they see on television. This tip has worked for me with my kids, three and five: when there’s an advertisement on the screen, yell [...]
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