Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, journalism, mommy blogging on 03 14th, 2010 | View Comments

Newspaper Bias Against Mom Bloggers

Newspaper Bias Against Mom Bloggers
The latest New York Times article on mom bloggers, Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand,  is yet another of many from the Times that attempts to marginalize our industry. Liz Gumbinner has an amazing post about the snarky New York Times article, and the comments there...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, journalism, new media, web 2.0 on 11 22nd, 2009 | View Comments

How to Blog Like a Journalist

How to Blog Like a Journalist
Blogging is a wonderful medium, but I am also a firm believer that we bloggers can elevate our work by taking the best of new media and the best of old media and combining it. It serves us well, and it serves our readers well. I spent 15 years as a newspaper reporter, and now seven years blogging (with...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, new media on 02 20th, 2009 | View Comments

Guy Kawasaki Interview on Newspapers at Alltop

Guy Kawasaki Interview on Newspapers at Alltop
I recently noticed that Alltop, a 2.0 magazine stand delivering feeds on a variety of topics such as moms and journalism, introduced pages for the L.A. Times and New York Times. As any of my regular readers know, my background is in newspapers and I have some rather strong opinions about the industry’s...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, freelance writing, journalism, new media on 01 19th, 2009 | View Comments

The Newspaper as Specialty Publication

The Newspaper as Specialty Publication
Tomorrow, I predict one of the best days in newspaper sales in several months. Despite all the stories of woe in the newspaper industry, don’t be surprised if you hit newspaper racks tomorrow to find them all sold out. How can that be in the midst of a recession and with an industry that is circling...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in journalism, new media on 06 24th, 2008 | View Comments

Why Newspaper Stories Need to Be Longer – Part I of the Newspapers Are Doing It Wrong Series

I have some advice for newspapers. I won’t even charge you for it. I know you can barely afford to have each reporter do 3-7 beats as it is, so consider this one a freebie. Hey, you underpaid me for 15 years, so I guess I owe you. You are doing it all wrong. All of it. Wrong. Just stop. Newspapers...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in journalism, new media on 05 14th, 2008 | View Comments

Guess What News Business? Bias Was OK After All…

I sort of laughed/cried to read about some silly nonsense Geek Wars between Wired and Techcrunch in Techcrunch’s post, “ OK, Wired, Let’s Do This!” In essence, Wired (interestingly enough, the Old School journalist in this scenario) has attacked the Techcrunch blog (new media),...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in freelance writing, journalism, new media on 04 13th, 2008 | View Comments

Why I Ditched Print for Web Writing

Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs recently had a great post, “ Print vs. Web: Why the Two Will Never Be the Same.” It’s still interesting to me, even in this era of Web Content as King, how many people still think a writer only goes for web to get a career started (or as a last resort). People...
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