Are citizen journalists replacing or helping professionals? You decide...
Over at Editor & Publisher, Steve Outing is writing about how communities of citizen journalists can help newspapers survive the new media economy where reporting budgets are slashed to the bone. He discusses how his company uses readers as reporting resources--"the Enthusiast Group, which publishes several social networking-based websites devoted to adventure sports (e.g., YourClimbing.com, YourMTB.com )." Check Journerdism for much, much more.
As newspapers suffer in the digital shift, it seems that travel writing companies are finding oodles of advertising money as they publish content for free on the web. Is this the future? Decide over at GalleyCat.
What's the best font for sending your novel/memoir/story to an editor? Theories abound over at science fiction copyeditor Deanna Hoak's beautiful site: "Jay Lake posted in favor of 12-point Courier New (which, by the way, I have talked him into), and then C. E. Petit posted that there is no universally “correct” way of formatting, and then Cheryl Klein ... noted that she doesn’t particularly like Courier."
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