Blogging Lessons For and From Journalism

Johnatan Bailey gives some advices on how to write journalistics blogs. In his article, he looks through the style and format on how to cover a story:

1. Dig into a Story
   
2. Write Visually
   
3. Radical Clarity
   
4. Cite Sources
   
5. Master Headline Writing
   

As he assets, there are some useful lessons from journalism that can help improve blog writing: "Though journalists are starting to make their peace with blogging and more reporters are starting up their own blogs, most are still loathe to connect themselves, in any way, to the mass of largely untrained and unpaid bloggers. But the success of blogging as a media indicates that bloggers are getting many things rights and that the “old media” may have something that it can learn, especially as it transitions more and more of its work to the Web".

1. Informal Tone
   
2. Corrections Policy
   
3. Conversations
   
4. Working with Competitors
   
5. Focusing on Free

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