Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet Update: The post is being featured on the log-in homepage of www.prx.org, the Public Radio Exchange. I’m so thrilled. Now, I’m heading to the Center for Documentary Studies and its week-long audio bootcamp, “Hearing is Believing I.” Follow me on twitter at @aoscruggs.

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