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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

May 23rd, 2008

News Designer?

As I was looking for freelance writing and editing and etc. jobs I came across one called, I kid you not: News Designer
If you follow the link you’ll find the listing ABC posted on MediaBistro… apparently they want someone to design the kinds graphics that show up on TV news these days.
But the headline! It […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

May 15th, 2008

Citizen Journalism and the Cross Pollination of Ideas

BuzzNetworker, another b5media blog, has a post today called: Citizen Journalism. It highlights the Center for Citizen Media, which is new to me, then goes on to talk about the fact that the San Jose Mercury News has called for neighborhood bloggers.
In one sense citizen journalism isn’t new at all. When you stop and think […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 13th, 2008

New Tag Line

This is taking chances month at the b5media.com business channel. We’ve been challenged to do something slightly differently. Hence my call for guest bloggers the other day. (And you’re still welcome to submit one, or two, or… )
I’ve also changed the tag line - no, not the one under the logo on top (more about […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

January 23rd, 2008

An Observation on the News

I heard something on the news this morning about movement in the writer’s strike, but I was looking up jobs or making coffee or something and didn’t hear the whole clip. Once the jobs were finished, the newsletter sent and the job entry made, I used Google News to try to catch up. What I […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 23rd, 2007

Need News For Your Research?

StumbleUpon.com is both a tremendous time sink and an interesting resource. I’m cooking up some bacon for both breakfast and a spinach salad and between flipping rashers, I clicked my StumbleUpon toolbar thingie a few times… and got this:
Newseum.org which has at least the front page from over 500 newspapers in 54 countries! You can […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

May 20th, 2007

Want Some Good News To Write About?

Want some good news to write about? Or just to offset some of the gloom and doom we’re all exposed to every day?
Kathy Hawkins, a writer, poet and editor from Maine, and a member of our forum, pointed to Gimundo.com. Founded by Chris Case and Keith Cohn, Chris say’s on the site’s About page: […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

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