You, the Columnist By Dave Lieber www.WatchdogNation.com Dear Ann Kolson, I read the obituary of your husband, Steve, in The New York Times the other day, and my heart sank(“Steven Lovelady, 66, Acclaimed Editor”). You see, I have always tried to thank those who helped me learn the craft of journalism. Years afterward, I would…
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Increase your search rankings/readership with simple videos
By Dave Lieber www.WatchdogNation.com By now, as a columnist, writer, information entrepreneur, whatever you call yourself these days, you have figured out that the chief currency in this stage of the information age is the keyword search in a search engine of your name. Borrowing from Microsoft’s search engine, when someone looks you…
An Idea for the Times
By Laura Snyder Nationally Syndicated Columnist As newspapers and columnists continue to evolve, we hold our breath to see what happens next. Every week, we hear of another newspaper closing its doors or another columnist losing his/her job. The reasons are varied, but they boil down to the fact that there is…
Do It Now: Live Your Dream
The Future of News
Making money
By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram Columnist WatchdogNation.com [The following is an abridged version of Dave’s talk at the 2009 Ventura conference.] Originally, this workshop was going to be called “How to have the best writing year of your life.” Then as the economy crashed, we billed this as “Keeping your columnist…
Sound Bites From a Self-Styled Twit
By Laura Snyder Nationally Syndicated Columnist “Survive and Thrive” may have been the theme of this year’s conference, but Twitter was the name and Tweeting was the game. It was everywhere. Each speaker had some very innovative ideas for getting us through the paper-to-digital transition, but the underlined advice in nearly every speech was “You…
Karma journalism
By Dave Lieber http://www.YankeeCowboy.com Fort Worth Star-Telegram Do you think about your karma? I think about it every day. I don’t worry about deadlines. I worry that I’m not putting enough good karma out there so it comes back. So I go overboard, dumping karma over the side of my life boat as if…