Journalist’s Trade

‘… the vast majority of Weblogs do not provide original reporting— for me, the heart of all journalism.’

At a time when access to the high-speed Internet is getting easier and do-it-yourself publishing software abounds, Weblogs are cyberspace’s quick-moving, multilinked, interactive venues of choice for millions of people…

A blogger and journalist finds no easy answer, but he discovers connections.

‘If contemporary American journalism is a lecture, what it is evolving into is something that incorporates a conversation and seminar.’

Web writing is a protected right, but more limits exist outside the United States.

A blogger predicts that Weblogs might push Big Media back to better news reporting.

Take advantage of the newness of blogging to newsrooms and become a blogger before the publisher turns the assignment over to his/her favorite columnist. Just blog. Make a prototype. Show…

‘Without, say, the imprimatur of The New York Times, a blogger has only his or her reputation to recommend the work ….’

The late Victor Cohn, a former science editor of The Washington Post, said: “A good medical reporter is, first of all, a reporter after a story, not just a medical…

A photographer documents the transition from medical student to physician.