I’m blogging as fast as I can, but others are blogging faster. Here are four thoughtful journalism articles from a weekend filled with news. The Two Whitneys We Knew: “Here’s what we knew about Whitney Houston: My God, could she sing. That was clear from the moment she burst on the scene in 1985 with [...]

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom created a schemata that has become the standard illustration of the learning process. He started with lower order thinking skills, such as  knowledge and comprehension, that provided the foundation for higher levels skills such as analysis and evaluation. Fifty-years later, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been modified to reflect the transformation of learning [...]

February is National Blog Posting Month. If you didn’t know that, you’re forgiven. I found out about it from Summer Beretsky, who got it from Blog Her. The effort is similar to National Novel Writing Month, which occurs in November. But NaBloPoMo is slightly different. Here’s how National Blog Posting Month works Actually, every month is [...]

I’ve joined a network of bloggers called The Carnival of Journalism. Each month, a member poses a question for the others to answer. This month’s question asks whether a journalist can be a capitalist? What Would Joseph Pulitzer Say? That’s Pulitzer as in the “Pulitzer Prize.” About 100 years ago, he and William Randolph Hearst [...]

When we were doing journalism the old-fashioned way, I didn’t have to promote my work, just write it. I liked that until I started writing books. My reviews were great but my sales, not so much. But that was 10 years ago. Now I’m blogging, tweeting daily. I’ve got one eye on my Facebook likes, [...]

Writing organizations give prizes for all sorts of stuff. Some group should set up an award for best Tweets, similar to the awards given for best headlines. The first prize should go to a certain employee at the Washington Post. I don’t who this person is, or whether it is a single person. But someone [...]

Way before the advent of blog posts, when the telegraph was a technological innovation, reporters had a problem. The transmission system wasn’t reliable. Sometimes, all of their dispatches would get through, but other times entire portions dropped out. So the medium inspired a transformation. The writers put the most important information in the beginning of [...]

For the last week, I’ve been investigating ways to create better blog posts. I’ve had my head stuck in Content Rules, a great book that goes from theory to examples to case studies. I’ve already mentioned Pushing Social. Stan, the publisher, is creating a series on writing better posts. You can subscribe by email. However, [...]

This is the year I do more with social media, including and especially blogging. There’s lots of hype about blogging, but essentially it’s a online publication.  To be successful, a blog must be updated regularly. Now some folks I know can post two and three times a day. I don’t have it like that. My [...]