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Create A Platform In 30 Days For aspiring or established authors, a strong platform is essential for attracting agents and editors. By Jeff Rivera, November 19, 2008 |
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| From Freelancer To Consultant If you're a freelance creative professional, improve a client's value and your own by pursuing a consulting career on the side. By Don Hauptman, November 12, 2008 |
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| Making Author Web Sites Work Author Web sites bring a new dynamic to 'judging a book by its cover,' so build your brand with our tips for a buzzworthy site. By Gary Andrew Poole, October 13, 2008 |
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| Get The Most Out Of Blogger Events Learn to leverage a blogger event into the freelance gigs and link love you need. By Hunter Walker, September 30, 2008 |
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| Keep Freelance Dollars Coming in a Recession It's survival of the fittest for freelancers in recession, but just because the economy is suffering doesn't mean your work should. By Jenny Cromie, September 22, 2008 |
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| Turning Down A Book Deal: Know When To Say No Published authors share tips on how to tell if a book deal is right for you -- financially and creatively. By Jonathan Bender, September 15, 2008 |
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| Between Freelancer and Staffer: Contributing Editors Parlay your freelance prowess into a contributing editor position. By E.B. Boyd, September 3, 2008 |
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| So You've Been Laid Off -- Now What? A laid-off journalist offers her proven tips for rebounding after a job loss. By Suzanne Struglinski, August 26, 2008 |
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| Anatomy of an Assignment: From Pitch Slam to Publication A play-by-play account of how a freelancer and her editors brought a national magazine piece to the page. By Natasha Reilly, August 19, 2008 |
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| The Greening of Freelancing Learn how to score a "green collar" job covering one of journalism's hottest beats: the environment. By Vicki Salemi, August 11, 2008 |
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| DIY Book Marketing and Promotion Take marketing matters into your own hands and promote your book using the personal touch. By Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, August 5, 2008 |
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| Trade Show Tips for Freelancers Learn to prowl the trade fair circuit for freelance story ideas. By Charlotte West, August 4, 2008 |
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| Breaking Into Web Journalism: The Basics Learning these online skills will rev up your resume for new media jobs. By Laura Palotie, July 28, 2008 |
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| What Do Book Editors Really Want? Major literary agents and editors reveal how to get your book proposal to the top of the heap. By Jeff Rivera, July 21, 2008 |
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| Twitter to Promote Your Book Network within your niche with Twitter, and you'll find it's easy to for readers to find you. By Jen A. Miller, July 14, 2008 |
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| Boost Your Writing Business by Diversifying By expanding your view, you can make your writing career pay in surprising ways. By Susan Johnston, July 7, 2008 |
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| Starting A New Job: The First 30 Days Make a great first impression at your new job with these tips on how to get a running start. By Ariane de Bonvoisin, July 2, 2008 |
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| Teach Online to Raise Your Writing Profile Ever wanted to teach an online course? Learn how to teach by following these simple tips. By Jennie S. Bev, June 30, 2008 |
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| Get Recognized as a Professional Critic The changing media environment has opened the door for freelance critics. Learn how to get your two cents published. By Maya Avrasin, June 25, 2008 |
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| Who's Judging Your Book By Its Cover? Everyone A good cover can make or break a book's sales. Learn the best way to share your thoughts about the cover design of your next book. By Rachel Kramer Bussel, June 23, 2008 |
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| Repeat Performance: Landing a Column Want a column? Follow this advice from experts who've penned some of the industry's top gigs and you'll be on your way. By Karla Starr, June 17, 2008 |
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| Getting Published: The E-Book Option For new writers, an online approach to publishing is a smart way to start out. By M. David Hornbuckle, June 16, 2008 |
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| Travel Write From Your Own Backyard Use your local expertise to write coveted insider travel stories. By Jen A. Miller, June 10, 2008 |
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| Publish Your Freelance Work Abroad Raise your profile by breaking into international publications. By Jennie S. Bev, June 4, 2008 |
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| Ellies 2008: What Makes an Award-Worthy Web Site? Editors from sites nominated for Online Excellence describe the inner workings of their Ellie-caliber outlets. By E.B. Boyd, April 29, 2008 |
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| From Small Town Dreamer to Big City Success Take your small-town know-how and parlay it into the top metropolitan markets. By Wendy Huston, April 14, 2008 |
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| Becoming Julia Allison How do you will your way from blogger-bait to national headlines and TV spots? A New York writer parses Manhattan media's most manufactured persona. By Stephen Rodrick, April 4, 2008 |
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| Is an MFA a Boost for a Freelance Career? One writer explains how getting an MFA will benefit your writing career in surprising ways. By Lisa Romeo, April 1, 2008 |
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| Perfecting the Art of the In-Person Pitch A face-to-face pitch can be a writer's best friend, provided he or she adheres to these principles. By Jenny Cromie, March 31, 2008 |
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| Build Buzz for Your Book Authors share tips for self-promoting your book onto the bestseller list. By Melissa Walker, March 24, 2008 |
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| The Long, Strange Trip to Multimedia Bookstores As Barnes & Noble enters the Internet age with a multimedia studio, one writer wonders what took so long. By Jesse Kornbluth, March 21, 2008 |
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| Public Speaking Secrets for Job Seekers Your dream job's just an interview away. Land it by following these tips and tricks. By Joel Schwartzberg, March 19, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: To Write or to Edit As the Ides of March (and graduation) approach, one j-schooler decides if her future lies in writing or editing. By Katia Bachko, February 29, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: Debating the Internship A former magazine editor ponders her classmates' decisions to apply for internships, ultimately deciding to join the crowd. By Beth Braverman, February 22, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: Dealing With the Postgrad Doldrums A recent j-school grad tries to land a job while taking stock in his options. By John MacDonald, February 15, 2008 |
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| Learning From TV Show Assistants Three real-life assistants take their TV counterparts to task, offering advice on getting you promoted to top dog. By Lilit Marcus, February 13, 2008 |
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| How to Succeed: The Pitch Follow Up Following up with editors is a delicate art. Experts offer tips and tricks for succeeding. By Samantha Cleaver, February 12, 2008 |
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| What to Charge: Web Video Outlets want Web video more than ever, so we asked freelance shooters how they recommend pricing those services. By Laura Palotie, February 11, 2008 |
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| mb Manage: Fight or Flight for Advancement Experts offer advice on advancing up the media stepladder by staying put or jumping jobs. By Maya Avrasin, February 6, 2008 |
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| Covering Fashion Week From the Fringe Three media pros offer their varied perspectives on covering fashion week from unusual angles. By Greg Lindsay, February 4, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: Hook, Line, and Sinker A persuasive pitch takes one j-schooler into the new media realm, but her coursework disappoints. By Katia Bachko, February 1, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: Broaden Your Expertise Why stick to j-school classes when expertise in another subject area could help you score a post-grad job? By Meghan Louttit, January 25, 2008 |
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| OverTime Magazine Owes 'Considerably More Than $100,000' Former OverTime freelancers claim they're owed thousands by the magazine. We investigate what went wrong. By Noah Davis, January 24, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: Working With the Web From landing pages to html code, the Web's a wild place and our j-schooler explains how she's learning to cope. By Beth Braverman, January 18, 2008 |
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| More Flow, Less Ebb: Breaking the Feast-or-Famine Freelance Cycle Full-time freelancers explain how they keep the work coming fast enough to both succeed and remain sane. By Jenny Cromie, January 16, 2008 |
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| Personal Essay Markets, Part II We provide 15 more outlets that'll publish your personal essay. By Jenny Rough, January 15, 2008 |
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| Blog to Raise Your Book's Profile A blog's one of the best ways to promote a new book -- we've gathered authors' examples and insights to get you started. By E.B. Boyd, January 14, 2008 |
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| J-School Confidential: A Professor's Perspective A j-school prof. describes how his school's keeping up with the changing media landscape and peers into the future. By Noah Davis, January 11, 2008 |
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| Personal Essay Markets, Part I We detail 15 places to pitch personal essays and provide specs and advice straight from the editors. By Jenny Rough, January 8, 2008 |
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| A Letter from Laurel From the desk of Laurel Touby, mediabistro.com founder and senior vice president By Laurel Touby, December 24, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Can Professors Catch Up? The next great advance in journalism lies on the Web, but a j-schooler argues her professors are sorely behind the curve. By Meghan Louttit, December 21, 2007 |
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| Off the Ground: A Journo Logs Writing His First Book, Part IV As he struggles to find a groove, this magazine writer offers tips on successful strategies for transitioning to books. By Greg Lindsay, December 21, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: The Great MA/MS Debate A student on the inside offers advice on deciding between an MS or an MA. By Kate Dailey, December 14, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Worth the Price? One writer wonders if the j-school juice is worth the squeeze (and the loans). By Beth Braverman, December 7, 2007 |
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| Off the Ground: A Journo Logs Writing His First Book, Part III After taking an extended break for his wedding, our first-time author finds a magic bullet to aid his return to the grind. By Greg Lindsay, November 30, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: One Down, One to Go As she nears the midpoint of her program, a j-school student examines how Columbia has helped her. By Katia Bachko, November 30, 2007 |
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| Public Speaking for Writers At some point in your writing career, you'll have to speak on stage. Our tips can help harness the fear and make you a hit. By Susan Johnston, November 20, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Balancing Books and Bylines With an NYT article on the way, one j-schooler explains how he scored bylines while hitting the books. By John MacDonald, November 16, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: MTV Chronicles Star Reporters-to-be Based on a Florida high school newspaper, we get the skinny on a journalism-centered MTV reality show from its producer and the paper's faculty adviser. By Eric Kuhn, November 9, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Distilling a Premium Education A former j-school teacher dispenses advice and his thoughts on the value of a degree. By Jonathon Scott Feit, November 2, 2007 |
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| Off The Ground: A Journo Logs Writing His First Book, Part II A magazine pro writing his first book struggles to rein in his article-writing impulses to yield manuscript-worthy work By Greg Lindsay, October 26, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Cushy Undergrad Program This Ain't Dinner with the new hubby are a thing of the past for our hustling, hopeful business reporter. By Beth Braverman, October 26, 2007 |
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| Breaking in to TV Writing TV writers describe how they made their way into the industry, offering tips on replicating their success. By Andrea Wachner, October 22, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Meeting People Is Easy Making connections is an essential element of j-school, but don't forget to impress once you land the job. By Meghan Louttit, October 19, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Reading and Writing Over Reporting? With hundred of pages to read, one student debates whether she should skip assignments to write instead. By Kate Dailey, October 12, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Rude Awakening One of our j-schoolers reflects upon her first month and learns some valuable lessons. By Katia Bachko, October 5, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Advice After The First Year With a December graduation looming, we hear from one j-schooler on how he'll deploy what he's learned in the real world. By John MacDonald, September 28, 2007 |
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| Off the Ground: A Journo Logs Writing His First Book A first-time book writer tackles the challenges of long-form journalism in this new series. By Greg Lindsay, September 27, 2007 |
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| How Not To Write A Screenplay Every reporter's worked on a story that begs to be made into a movie. Our reporter-turned-screenwriter offers insights for journos eager to transform a film-worthy story into a script. By Edmund Lee, September 24, 2007 |
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| mediabistro.com 10th Anniversary Celebration mediabistro.com Celebrates 10th Anniversary With 'Golden Boa' Awards Honoring 10 Outstanding Media Professionals Sponsor the party September 24, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: State of The Campus Paper A student journo argues that college papers are handling the advent of online news better than their real-world counterparts. By Eric Kuhn, September 21, 2007 |
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| Comprehending Copyright, Part II: Protecting Your Work Guarding your copyright is easier than you think with our essential guide to protecting your work. By E.B. Boyd, September 18, 2007 |
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| What To Do When You Get Stiffed On Freelance Pay These tips on securing pay for freelance work will help you handle employers who don't ante up on time. By Jenny Rough, September 17, 2007 |
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| Comprehending Copyright, Part I: Using Others' Work We've got guidance for content creators who want to avoid misusing the work of others. By E.B. Boyd, September 17, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: First Impressions Despite an hour-long commute and the immediacy of her next job search, this future business writer's immersed in Columbia's grad program. By Beth Braverman, September 14, 2007 |
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| Jack of All Trades With pay rates rivaling those of many national books, trade pubs offer a quick and easy way to make some extra cash. By Pete Croatto, September 14, 2007 |
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| Homing In On Your Right Rate Figure out the right pay rate for your writing gigs by following these simple steps. By E.B. Boyd, September 11, 2007 |
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| How a WWD Editor Reviews Runway Shows In an exclusive interview, top W and WWD critic Bridget Foley reveals how she reviews runway shows. By Greg Lindsay, September 10, 2007 |
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| Protecting Sources' Privacy Maintaining sources' privacy is a journalist's priority. These guidelines will help ensure your coverage doesn't cross the line. By E.B. Boyd, September 10, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Forsaking the Grade This admitted overachiever doesn't regret choosing valuable experience over that once-coveted 4.0. By Meghan Louttit, September 7, 2007 |
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| Bulletproof Your Book Proposal We arm you with insights from a seasoned author and consultant who specializes in packaging book ideas so they sell. By Eric Neuhaus, September 7, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Stepping Off The Swag Express This women's mag editor-turned-j-student can't wait to trade publicist lunches for 'living poor and hungry in New York.' By Kate Dailey, August 31, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Returning To School Our writer trades a job in the city of Brotherly Love for 18 months at NYU and the hope of landing his dream position. By John MacDonald, August 24, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: My Liberal Arts Education By skipping j-school to pursue a liberal arts degree, our writer broadens his horizons and finds another way into the media game. By Eric Kuhn, August 17, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Second-Guessing The Decision In our second installment, our contributor explains why she traded globetrotting and fashion writing for loans, homework, and the hope of a better career covering business. By Beth Braverman, August 10, 2007 |
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| The Slippery Slope Of Simultaneous Submissions Writers and editors share their guidelines on selling the same story to multiple outlets at once. By Jenny Rough, August 6, 2007 |
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| J-School Confidential: Off The Fence Penned by journos eager to step up their game, our new series tracks how media pros get made. By Katia Bachko, August 3, 2007 |
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| Getting Published: Insights From A Book Contracts Insider Working in a publisher's contracts department reveals plenty about writing and selling a book. Our contracts vet-turned-author shares the wealth. By Jean Marie Pierson, July 30, 2007 |
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| Safe Freelancing: Tips On Avoiding Libel Charges Steer clear of libel lawsuits with these tips from media law experts. By E.B. Boyd, July 24, 2007 |
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| What a Girl Wants... From Her Magazine Matching teen girls' magazine needs keeps these four top editors on their toes. They describe how they -- and writers -- can keep an ever-evolving readership tuned in. By Ginger Rue, July 17, 2007 |
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| Blog Your Way Into Writing Work Use your blog to score article contracts with these tips from a writer who's succeeded. By Natalie Bovis-Nelsen, July 9, 2007 |
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| Top Freelancers' Traits Five prolific freelancers divulge the key traits and tips that helped each of them secure steady work as a writer-for-hire. By Peggy Bourjaily, July 5, 2007 |
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| Anthologies 'R' Us Anthologies are undergoing "a remarkable renaissance," so join the revolution with this expert advice. By Rachel Kramer Bussel, June 26, 2007 |
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| The Delicious Transition From Food Writer To Food Publicist Spin your food writing expertise into a delectable PR gig with tips from a pro who's bridged the gap. By Rachel Mays, June 21, 2007 |
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| Turn Nonprofit Work Into Editorial Profit Make the leap from nonprofit writing to edit-side work with these expert tips. By Daniela Zeltzer, June 19, 2007 |
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| Voice From The Other Side: Tips For Editors Editors constantly give writers advice about pitching and writing. Here, we get 30 freelancers to return the favor. By Jenny Rough, June 12, 2007 |
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| Make Writing Group Magic With these tips, transform a crew of fellow writers into a cohesive unit that'll help you sell your work. By Jenny Rough, June 5, 2007 |
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| Media Layoffs: How To Survive And Thrive Whether you've been let go or you're one of the few left standing, these tips will help you bounce back, post-layoffs. By Jenny Cromie, May 22, 2007 |
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| Ready, Aim, Shoot: How to Conquer Digital Video Ramp up your freelance opportunities by adding digital video to your repertoire, using these proven strategies. By Lauren Horwitch, May 15, 2007 |
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| A Matter of Opinion Writing The first step in writing a belief-altering op-ed? Have an opinion. The second? Read our experienced pro's secrets. By Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, May 14, 2007 |
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| Become a Profiling Pro Write killer profiles that leave your editor stunned, your subject satisfied, and your audience clamoring for more. By Pete Croatto, May 8, 2007 |
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| Maximizing Profits and Connections at BEA Mine gold at the largest book trade event in the country with these seven tips from an industry pro. By Fern Reiss, May 7, 2007 |
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| Ellie-Nominated Mags Go Mobile Are cell phones the new glossy frontier? An examination of how outlets that earned Ellie nods are making the jump to mobile. By Jamie Lendino, April 30, 2007 |
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| Lessons Managers Can Learn from Assistants Mastering new technology and taking the office's pulse are just some of the skills your support staff can school you in. By Lilit Marcus, April 24, 2007 |
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| Pulitzers Recognize 'Stubborn Reporting' This year's winners discuss the reporting that earned them one of the media industry's top honors. By Maya Avrasin, April 23, 2007 |
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| Meta Media Mashup Jason Whitlock, David Carr, Nikki Finke tackle Imus, Portfolio's 'CEO porn' and more. By Dylan Stableford, April 17, 2007 |
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| 'In the Pain Cave': Award-Winning Journos on Long-Form Writing Top magazine writers reveal what they really do to report, outline and write lengthy features. By Greg Lindsay, April 16, 2007 |
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| Death Goes Digital How the art of writing — and covering — death is more alive than ever. By Emily Million, April 9, 2007 |
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| Tips For Aspiring Obituary Writers Research, resources and other tricks of the death writing trade. By Emily Million, April 9, 2007 |
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| Reviewing Time Like A Rock Record A magazine like the Rolling Stones: still touring, still classic, but not always relevant By Dylan Stableford, March 30, 2007 |
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| Cellphone Video Gets Longer Soon, you will be watching feature length movies on your cellphone. By Jamie Lendino, March 29, 2007 |
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| What Not To Do In The TV Writer's Room Doing the crossword, correcting punctuation, and eight other ways to tank a promising writing career. By Ellen Sandler, March 27, 2007 |
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| Where To Find Great Stories Looking high and low for your next big byline? This Boston Globe correspondent reveals the go-to sources that keep her fountain of story ideas flowing. By Susan Chaityn Lebovits, March 22, 2007 |
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| Tax Time Tips for Freelancers A refund may be in the cards with these tips for freelancers on tackling your own taxes. By Noah Davis, March 20, 2007 |
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| Monday Morning Meta Media Mashup James Brady, David Carr, Bambi Francisco, John Mancini By Dylan Stableford, March 19, 2007 |
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| Feature: Figuring Out Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis and Whatever's Next Use these of-the-moment tech terms and tools to advance your journalism career, explained by a leading online journalist. RELATED:  mb Seminar Transcript: Figuring Out Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, and Whatever's NextBy Amelia McDonell-Parry, March 16, 2007 |
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| Reviewing Monocle Like A Rock Record Tyler Brûlé's latest offering is cold, dark, expensive -- the anti-Wallpaper* By Dylan Stableford, March 13, 2007 |
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| Monday Morning Meta Media Mashup Shafer, Powers, Brady, Friedman By Dylan Stableford, March 12, 2007 |
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| How to Write About Family and Friends So They'll Still Speak to You A memoirist's tips on maintaining family harmony and keeping friends after spilling the beans on them in your writing. By Hana Schank, March 8, 2007 |
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| Vogue's Talley vs. 'Dreamgirl' Hudson in Couture Catfight The Vogue editor who put her on the magazine's March cover's now persona non grata to Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, thanks to one really bad bolero. By Diane Clehane, March 2, 2007 |
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| TV On Your Handheld TV on your cellphone will be here within the year, but will it stay? By Jamie Lendino, March 1, 2007 |
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| What I Learned About Freelancing as an Editor-in-Chief From knowing your audience to respecting wordcounts, an expert editor and freelancer tells what he's learned in the former position that helps in the latter. By Colman Andrews, February 28, 2007 |
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| How To Find Investors For Your Awful Film Follow these seven steps, and sucker investors will fund your terrible film. By Susan Self, February 27, 2007 |
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| Reviewing Good Like A Rock Record L.A.-based magazine for "people who give a damn" gets a music critic's treatment By Dylan Stableford, February 23, 2007 |
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| Hit it Big With Smaller Stories Pursuing minor-league leads, this writer's parlayed seemingly small stories into attention-getting articles. She describes the tiny tales she's turned into big-time bylines. By Susan Chaityn Lebovits, February 22, 2007 |
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| How to Write and Cast Your Awful Film In three easy steps, our publicist explains how to get your less than Oscar-worthy film scripted, cast and distributed. By Susan Self, February 13, 2007 |
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| My Dinner with Judith Regan To a would-be author's dismay, Judith Regan's trash-talk during a "business" dinner trumps any discussion of book deals By Rick Douglas, February 8, 2007 |
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| Bloggers In Tents: Fashion Warms to New Media It was the interview that launched a thousand blogs: An upstart blogger interviews a pre-show Anna Wintour. Now, new media outlets are enjoying unprecedented Fashion Week access. By Greg Lindsay, February 6, 2007 |
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| Publishers' Dilemma: The Book World Confronts The Digital Age Every book online and fully searchable? Only if Google gets its way. By Sarah Weinman, February 1, 2007 |
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| Breaking Into Food Writing Like chef-chasing, restaurant-gracing and recipe-casing, and want bylines for it? Pull up a seat at the table, as a gastronome-turned-seasoned food writer serves up her secrets. By Kristine Hansen, January 31, 2007 |
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| How to Sell an Awful Film in 12 Easy Steps A publicist reveals how she generates sales for really bad movies By Susan Self, January 25, 2007 |
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| Fashion Writing 101 Our popular "Fashion Writing 101" seminar, adapted into a feature detailing those first steps that'll usher you into the world of fashion journalism. RELATED: mb Seminar Transcript: Fashion Writing 101By Heather Marie Graham, January 24, 2007 |
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| Tools of The 'Mobile Journalist' Part II: The equipment and techniques "MoJo" Chuck Myron uses as a newspaper reporter who works from his car By Chuck Myron, January 19, 2007 |
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| 57 Unedited Media Predictions For 2007 What you said about Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, YouTube, Mel Gibson, Graydon Carter … By Dylan Stableford, January 17, 2007 |
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| Design Writing for Designers Adapted from our eponymous seminar, this feature distills the basics on getting your design expertise in front of editors and published. RELATED: mb Seminar Transcript: Design Writing for DesignersBy Heather Marie Graham, January 17, 2007 |
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| Journalism From Inside a Car A 'Mobile Journalist' Tells How He Works for a Newspaper Without Ever Going to the Office By Chuck Myron, January 11, 2007 |
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| Why You Didn't Get The Job: The Interview Iron your best suit and relax, because with this guide on what not to do, the job is as good as yours. PLUS: Interview Non-Nons: Applicants in France Blow it Big-Time By Taffy Brodesser-Akner, January 10, 2007 |
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| Breaking Into First-Person Writing Publishing first-person pieces is one of the most satisfying ways to see your stories in print. This guide, by a proven master of the form, shows you how. By Liza Monroy, January 9, 2007 |
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| Lunch at Michael's: An Oral History Food and Ambition Meet New York's Media Elite By Greg Lindsay, January 3, 2007 |
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| 2006: Media MVP Stephen Colbert filleted the president and created TV's most indelible character By Dylan Stableford, December 28, 2006 |
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| A Letter From Laurel From the desk of Laurel Touby, mediabistro.com founder and CEO December 26, 2006 |
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| 2006: Media Story Of The Year YouTube's impact was felt everywhere By Dylan Stableford, December 20, 2006 |
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| 2006: Media Sixth Man Daily Show and Colbert Report EP Ben Karlin was behind two of the buzziest shows on television By Dylan Stableford, December 19, 2006 |
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| 2006: Media's Biggest Bust, Scandal The O.J. Simpson Book Debacle Made Everything Else Pale, And America Sick By Dylan Stableford, December 18, 2006 |
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| mediabistro.com's 2006 Year-End Media Awards: Vote Now! The Nominees Are ... December 13, 2006 |
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| mediabistro.com's 2006 Year-End Media Awards A Call For Nominees December 11, 2006 |
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| Why You Didn't Get The Job: The Resume Taking her patented tough-love approach, an mb'er tells you how to write and submit a resume that'll get you hired. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner, December 4, 2006 |
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| 'Is Print Dead? Discuss!' Why magazines are in trouble, and the Internet won't be their savior By Dorian Benkoil and Dylan Stableford, November 17, 2006 |
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| Why You Didn't Get The Interview: The Cover Letter One of mb's own describes pitfalls to avoid if you're aiming for high marks with a hiring manager. Step one: Conquer the cover letter. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner, October 30, 2006 |
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| Editors On the Hot Seat We investigate the dark art of seating at Fashion Week shows. By Greg Lindsay, September 15, 2006 |
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| Five Years Later: Media Recollections Of 9/11 From Brooklyn to Bombay By Dylan Stableford, September 11, 2006 |
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| A Year Later: TVNewsers On Katrina The television journalists who covered Katrina reflect on the storm — and how they covered it — in a series of exclusive interviews. By Brian Stelter, August 31, 2006 |
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| Scooped by a Source Journalists' interview subjects are posting exchanges on their personal blogs, often scooping writers before their articles hit -- is it dirty pool, or new-media reality? By Greg Lindsay, August 28, 2006 |
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| Exclusive: Newhouse School To Launch Media Business Journo Awards Dean David M. Rubin on the awards, the state of journalism, and how blogs and scandals have affected the way the school teaches media. By Dylan Stableford, August 24, 2006 |
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| Burning and Ripping Music Magazines in the MP3 Era Are music magazines falling behind by failing to reach readers through their medium of choice? By Dylan Stableford, August 21, 2006 |
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| How Many Friends Does Your Book Have? Authors are using social networking site MySpace to help their titles find a broader audience, ramp up attendance at readings, and bring their characters to life, long past the book's last page. By Rachel Kramer Bussel, August 7, 2006 |
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| The Grounding of 'The Green' Newspaper/Internet hybrid 'The Green' should have been a no-brainer to investors. Why didn't it get off the ground? By Greg Lindsay, July 24, 2006 |
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| Designing Editors: Complex Now unburdened by Cargo as it doles out dudes' knowledge of gizmos, girls, and hip-hop go-getters, Complex steps it up with a simpler, streamlined look. By Joyce Rutter Kaye, July 19, 2006 |
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| MB Blogs Event Coverage UnBeige @ Aspen Design Summit | FishbowlNY @ Media Giraffe | FishbowlNY @ NAHJ | FishbowlDC @ Wordplay Opening | GalleyCat @ BookExpo and more | FishbowlLA @ L.A. Film Festival July 3, 2006 |
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| Designing Editors: Maxim As embodied by the cover model gracing its redesigned pages, Maxim's promise is dirty, but its look is clean By Julie Lasky, June 7, 2006 |
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| Chasing Barry Against a backdrop of steroids and scandal, why few members of the sports media have come to slugger Barry Bonds' defense — and why even fewer will By Steve Bloom, May 24, 2006 |
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| Novel Ways to Publicize Your Fiction Book Innovative insights from a book publicity guru By Fern Reiss, May 22, 2006 |
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| So You Wanna Work in Fashion Editorial? How to break into the rarified realm of fashion journalism—and, why writing for Paper could land you a Vogue byline By Melissa Walker, May 17, 2006 |
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| Designing Editors: Family Circle An overhaul busy moms can appreciate By Bryn Mooth, May 10, 2006 |
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| Bigfooted on the Web As the internet succeeds, media execs are moving in By Greg Lindsay, May 8, 2006 |
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| Q+A: Margit Feury Ragland The author of mb's Get a Freelance Life on having a thick-skin, editors who want real-life vaginal barbell stories and life as a freelancer Excerpt: Get a Freelance Life By Dylan Stableford, May 2, 2006 |
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| Celebrity Collaboration: Don't Expect the Star Treatment An Experienced Author Offers Ten Lessons From the Grimy Trenches By Diane Clehane, April 26, 2006 |
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| Redemption Book A Bob Marley biographer writes how quitting a job for a labor of love meant freedom and reward
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| The Complex Generation "When someone calls us 'urban' I consider it racist," says the editor of the last men's 'shopping' magazine standing.
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| Designing Editors: Jane On The Redesign of Jane April 12, 2006 |
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| Testing the Limits Where Media Companies Draw the Lines on Keeping What's Given Related: Checking Products Can Be Fun — or Not By David S. Hirschman, April 11, 2006 |
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| Elizabeth Spiers: 'Launches Aren't Much Fun' A Q+A with the Would-Be Queen of Wall Street Blogging By Dylan Stableford, April 5, 2006 |
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| Your Friends and Sources What's so wrong with asking your pal for a quote? By Greg Lindsay, March 27, 2006 |
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| Web First, Print Later Magazine publishers follow the money...straight to the web By David S. Hirschman, March 13, 2006 |
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| Time to Inc.? Freelancers should think carefully before incorporating By Claire Zulkey, March 8, 2006 |
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| The Better Business Reporting Bureau What a former journalist learned on Wall Street By Anonymous, February 8, 2006 |
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| Don't Bother Writing For Print Why you can make an easier living online By David S. Hirschman, February 6, 2006 |
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| Credit Where It's Due: Online When independent journalists and bloggers break news, traditional media is not always eager to attribute By Greg Lindsay, January 9, 2006 |
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| 2006: A Media New Year We asked critics, commentators, and industry reporters for their predictions for 2006 By David S. Hirschman, December 26, 2005 |
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| On the Agenda: Leading a Better Meeting Accomplish more in less time with fewer gripes By Deborah A. Wilburn, December 12, 2005 |
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| Bored at 40,000 Feet Greg Lindsay suggests in-flight mags revamp before disappearing from seatbacks completely By Greg Lindsay, December 5, 2005 |
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| Authors and Their Editors: Jill Ciment and Victoria Wilson The author of The Tattoo Artist in conversation with her editor at Knopf November 30, 2005 |
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| Editorial Omerta Good editors protect their staff—to a point By David S. Hirschman, November 28, 2005 |
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| It Takes Two To Make A Book Go Right Are two authors better than one? By Rachel Kramer Bussel, November 14, 2005 |
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| Judging Esquire By Its Covers George Lois remembers Esquire as a part of the 1960s revolution By David S. Hirschman, November 9, 2005 |
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| So You're A Manager... You just got promoted and now it's time to lead. How do you do it? By Erin Schulte, November 7, 2005 |
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| The Unofficial mediabistro.com Fall Media Film Festival Our picks for the fall media movie viewing By Elizabeth Spiers, September 26, 2005 |
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| There Goes My Hero—Finally Why Jane Pratt's Jane never quite lived up to Jane Pratt's Sassy By Michelle Orange, September 14, 2005 |
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| Catherine Talese: Absolute Aesthetic Absolute photography director Catherine Talese explains the intentions behind the magazine's images. By Catherine Talese, August 29, 2005 |
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| How to Be the Perfect Author You've sold your first book. Now what? By Elizabeth Spiers, August 24, 2005 |
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Your Fall Media Reading List—Brought To You By Your Favorite Media Machers By David Hirschman, August 10, 2005 |
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| When Judy Met Kim A heartwarming tale of friendship and fun—in prison. By Mo Rocca. By Mo Rocca, July 17, 2005 |
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| The Corrections How media companies recover from media scandals with the help of a few good PR people By David S. Hirschman, June 15, 2005 |
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| Tuesdays with Ed: Episode Two Beware the men's fashion writer bearing white sneakers By Steve McQueen, June 13, 2005 |
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| Tuesdays with Ed: Episode I Wherein our writer, "Steve McQueen" meets his media mentor, Ed. The first in a series. By Steve McQueen, June 1, 2005 |
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| At Lunch With: Michael Caruso mb's David Hirschman talks to the Men's Journal editor-in-chief about adventure travel, manly men, and the competition By David S. Hirschman, April 27, 2005 |
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| The Atlantic and The Decline of the Short Story A novelist and short story writer laments the passing of a monthly tradition By Quinn Dalton, April 11, 2005 |
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| Avast, the Media Mega-Trial David S. Hirschman on the media's conflict of coverage in the Michael Jackson trial. By David S. Hirschman, March 3, 2005 |
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| We Have Seen the Enemy and It Is Us Journalism and blogging. Blogging and mainstream media. The lines have never been blurrier. Or bloggier. By Elizabeth Spiers, February 16, 2005 |
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| Softly Bleeds the Red Pen: A Valentine's Day Story mb's Greg Bloom on young freelance writers in love...with their work By Greg Bloom, February 13, 2005 |
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| New Launch Review: Trader Monthly Magnus Greaves' new finance/luxury goods mag targets traders. (Young, male cash-flush traders with a penchant for fast cars and hot women, that is.) By Greg Lindsay, January 3, 2005 |
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| Pitch This: L.A. Times Entertainment Business Entertainment Editor Joel Sappell offers guidelines for PR people pitching the LAT By Laura Galloway, December 20, 2004 |
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| The Om-Buddy System The New York Times ombudsman position is a year old this week. Has it been effective? By David S. Hirschman, December 8, 2004 |
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| Paid Content, 2048 How do writers get paid for their work in the (very distant) future? Here's one scenario. By Greg Lindsay, December 1, 2004 |
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| Photos: Looking at LIFE As Life magazine gets set to relaunch October 1, New York's International Center of Photography hosts a retrospective of the magazine's most iconic prints. September 16, 2004 |
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| Bad Reception As the new TV season gets underway, with its usual batch of mostly unwatchable shows, we asked TV critics and reporters to recall the worst pilot they ever had to sit through. By Jesse Oxfeld, September 15, 2004 |
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| What I Did On My Summer Vacation Intern season is winding to a close, so we thought we'd ask media interns from around the city just how fabulous—or how horrible—their summer jobs were. By Greg Bloom, August 18, 2004 |
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| Reading List Beach time is here. So, seeking recommendations for lazy afternoons, we asked a crew of book-world folks: "This summer, what's your guilty-pleasure beach read?" By Jesse Oxfeld and Greg Bloom, July 21, 2004 |
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| Bound and Magged An Outward Bound tradition takes top publishing execs on wilderness adventures—and gains publicity for the organization. June 25, 2004 |
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| Hot-or-Not: The Results Nearly 8,000 votes later, find out with which magazine editors mb readers want to have their career-boosting, inter-office affairs. June 18, 2004 |
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| Magazine Editor Hot-or-Not Longtime Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown heartily encourages affairs at the office. With which magazine editor would you have yours? June 15, 2004 |
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| Found Media: Pecker Pokes Hachette The American Media chief leases prime billboard space—that has the added bonus of needling his old boss. May 6, 2004 |
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| Found Media: Fairchild Bridal Group Created The corporate restructuring of Si Newhouse's magazine empire promised this morning by the New York Post is becoming a reality. Here's the Fairchild memo on the new Fairchild Bridal Group. May 4, 2004 |
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| The Envelope, Please The National Magazine Awards—the Ellies—will be presented at the Waldorf-Astoria next week. We asked a range of mag editors and commentators, "If you could come up with your own, special Ellie to award, what mag would you give it to and why?" By Jill Singer, April 29, 2004 |
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| On Interviewing Part of being a great journalist is conducting a great interview, and some powerhouse reporters told us their secrets for getting subjects to talk. By Eric Messinger, April 15, 2004 |
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| Found Media: Unhappy New York Times Photographers An ad-hoc group of photographers, the New York Times Freelance Photojournalists, objected to the contract offered by the Times, and then the Times bats them down. April 7, 2004 |
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| Prize Patrol A new batch of Pulitzer Prize-winners will be announced next Monday afternoon, and we asked some past winners how—and if—winning changed their lives and careers. By Jesse Oxfeld and Jill Singer, April 1, 2004 |
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| Q&A: Claude Grunitzky A new book—the outgrowth of an international magazine—focuses on the phenomenon on "transculturalism," a melding of Western and global cultures. By David S. Hirschman, March 26, 2004 |
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| Photos: War in Iraq A new exhibit at New York's International Center of Photography showcases war photography from Iraq and Afghanistan. Here's a preview. March 11, 2004 |
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| The Boys on the Schoolbus Newsweek's latest crop of political pundits is a quintet of lucky college kids. By Jill Singer and Jesse Oxfeld, January 22, 2004 |
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| Yes, Virginia "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," isn't just a cliched one-liner; it's the ringing climax of the world's most famous newspaper editorial. In honor of the season—and in honor of good editorial writing everywhere—here's a reprint of the 1897 classic from the original New York Sun. By Francis Pharcellus Church, December 23, 2003 |
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| You See, FCC? When The Nation and The Economist debated the recent FCC ownership-rules controversy this week, it became clear the relaxed rules made no sense. By David S. Hirschman, December 17, 2003 |
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| Armenia Online An erstwhile Orange County Register reporter with no personal connection to the former Soviet republic has built Armenia's most-read news source—and, in the process, has taught his staffers how to be free, unbiased journalists. By Kim Iskyan, December 15, 2003 |
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| Found Media: 101 Dumbest Moments in Time Inc. History The folks at Business 2.0 have fun with their bosses. December 4, 2003 |
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| Tuxedos and Bravery David S. Hirschman goes to the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual awards dinner and notes some jarring juxtapositions. By David S. Hirschman, November 26, 2003 |
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| Check Out MB's Classifieds NEW TODAY: Looking for a new apartment? Selling an extra theater ticket? Seeking a roommate? Looking for a microwave? Do your deal with another media professional; find it on the mediabistro.com classifieds. November 7, 2003 |
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| Getting the Get How to get big-name sources to answer your call, even when you're not a big-name reporter. By Todd Edward Raphael, November 5, 2003 |
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| Boxing Writers To end the silly feud between their New York City street newspapers, the New York Press's Jeff Koyen and The L Magazine's Scott Stedman will step into a Brooklyn boxing ring tonight. By Matt Elzweig, October 29, 2003 |
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| A Farang in Paradise Bangkok's Farang magazine—a snarky and useful monthly aimed at backpacking kids—and Cameron Cooper, the swashbuckling expat publisher who created it. By Dan Eldridge, September 8, 2003 |
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| The Devil Wears Dockers Lauren Weisberger didn't have the only mean boss in New York publishing—or did she? By Lee Bailey, August 6, 2003 |
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| Spy vs. Spy As the (so far) short life of Radar reminds us, everyone is Spy magazine now. By Paul O'Donnell, July 30, 2003 |
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| You Ought to Be in Pictures So you wanna work on a film shoot? Here's how to get your foot in the (trailer) door. By Aury Wallington, July 24, 2003 |
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| Gawking at Gawker Elizabeth Spiers was just another Wall Street type. Now she's the must-read chronicler of trucker hats, Soho House, and Anna Wintour. By David S. Hirschman, July 17, 2003 |
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| What Would Tina Do? A bigshot editor at a big-deal mag— no, not her—reveals what he thinks when he gets a cold pitch. By Claire Zulkey, July 9, 2003 |
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| Found Media An inside look at Viacom-controlled Comedy Central. June 26, 2003 |
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| The Blog Estate As media consolidate and the public stops trusting them, bloggers are playing the important role of watchdogging the watchdogs. By Angelina Sciolla, June 19, 2003 |
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| mb Quick Take: Bryan Monroe on Jayson Blair The vice president, print, of the National Association of Black Journalists—a Knight-Ridder news exec currently at Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship—on why the Blair scandal has nothing to do with race. By Jesse Oxfeld, May 15, 2003 |
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| mb Quick Take: William McGowan on Jayson Blair Two years ago, William McGowan argued in Coloring the News that American newsrooms were advocating diversity at the cost of their coverage. Has the Jayson Blair case proved his point? By Jesse Oxfeld, May 13, 2003 |
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| What We're Talking About Some BBSers are wondering: Was the Times too hard on Jayson Blair? Or does he deserve nothing but contempt? May 12, 2003 |
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| Watching Ellie Jesse Oxfeld goes to his first National Magazine Awards. By Jesse Oxfeld, May 8, 2003 |
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| What We're Talking About What do you think of this year's National Magazine Awards, announced today. Tell us on the BBS. May 7, 2003 |
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| How to Lose Friends and Disappoint Your Audience The stage version of Toby Young's memoir—a play about a book about working at a magazine—falls largely flat. By Jumana Farouky, May 6, 2003 |
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| Live From Kabul Ivan Sigal travels the world, building independent media in newly free societies. By David S. Hirschman, May 1, 2003 |
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| What We're Talking About To blog or not to blog? (And to read them or not to read them?) April 25, 2003 |
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| Ask America! Taking Radar's lead, mb quizzed the folks in Times Square—and measured the usefulness of the magazine's hype. By Jesse Oxfeld and Rossiter Drake, April 22, 2003 |
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| Art on the Radio You'd think radio was a strictly aural medium. But WNYC, New York's public radio station, is proving otherwise, with a one-of-a-kind online exhibition of visual art created in response to the Iraq war. By Jesse Oxfeld, April 10, 2003 |
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| mb's Pizza-of-the-Month Club Who needed a pick-me-up early last month? Our friends at Salon.com, of course! April 4, 2003 |
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| Blogging to Baghdad, on His Readers' Tab Freelance journalist Christopher Allbritton takes his war-focused blog to Iraq—and his readers are paying his bills. By Cabe Franklin, April 1, 2003 |
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| What We're Talking About Michael Moore at the Oscars: Brave voice of political dissent or pompously self-important blowhard? March 24, 2003 |
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| A Response to William McGowan Eric Alterman, author of the recent What Liberal Media, confronts a charge of lazy reporting from Coloring the News author William McGowan. March 10, 2003 |
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| An Open Letter to Eric Alterman William McGowan, author of Coloring the News, takes on Alterman and his recent What Liberal Media? March 7, 2003 |
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| Rare Words 500 mots justes you didn't know you didn't know. March 3, 2003 |
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| The Insider Track How to get, keep and ditch the hot media job--from "The Daily." Find out Anna Wintour's salary as well as what the bumper sticker on the back of Graydon Carter's Navigator says. February 12, 2003 |
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| The Next American City launches with a bang A new magazine focusing on the future of urban growth is born By By David Hirschman, February 11, 2003 |
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| The Final Interview Rituals, rejections and those deadly words of encouragement: "Keep plugging away." By Anya Litvak, February 4, 2003 |
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| Lead of The Week From "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Deer," published in The New York Times By Chip Brown, February 3, 2003 |
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| Bidding on Marci An enterprising grad tries to auction off her editing services on Ebay. By Maccabee Montadon, January 31, 2003 |
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| Getting it Write Michelle worries that her freelancing nosedive might end in homelessness. By Michelle Sherer, January 27, 2003 |
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| Lead of The Week From "Anti-Europeanism in America" published in The New York Review of Books. By Timothy Garton Ash, January 27, 2003 |
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| Lead of The Week From "Howell Raines: May a Thousand Critics Bloom," published in The New York Observer. By Sridhar Pappu, January 20, 2003 |
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| Born Again The Oxford American Rises From the Ashes. By Darby Saxbe, January 20, 2003 |
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| Reporting From Abroad Reporting From Abroad So you want to be the next Christiane Amanpour... By BY CAROLINE CALLAHAN, January 17, 2003 |
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| The Blind Pitch The Blind Pitch How to guarantee that your pitch isn't immediately deleted—and, hopefully, that it's actually accepted. By WHITNEY JOINER, January 17, 2003 |
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| Lead of The Week From "Giant J. Lo Frenzy!" published in The New York Observer. By Rory Evans, January 13, 2003 |
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| Congress (nearly) Killed the Radio Star 2002 nearly saw internet radio legislated out of existence. By Mike Vago, January 9, 2003 |
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| Lead of The Week From "The Droves of Academe," published in The New York Observer. By Tom McGeveran and Rebecca Traister, January 6, 2003 |
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| A Walk in the Park How Two Brothers Wrote a Publishing Success Story in a Down Economy. By Darby Saxbe, December 23, 2002 |
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| How to Get Perfect Copy Every Time Senior editors share their secrets. By Ellen Ullman, December 20, 2002 |
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| Found Items A selection of links to writing-related articles and interesting sites on the web. By David Hirschman, December 18, 2002 |
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| Leaving Metropolis How to move on from the big city to smaller and better things. By Christopher Allbritton, December 13, 2002 |
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| Grace Notes The value of writing one charming note to a writer, editor, agent—anyone you admire—every day. By Carolyn See, July 22, 2002 |
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| Lillian Ross' Rules of Reporting "I try to listen while I write, and if I can't do both simultaneously, my listening takes priority. Listening is the quintessential word." By Lillian Ross, July 1, 2002 |
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| Fox and the Hounds The author found scary evidence linking a Monsanto product, commonly found in milk, to cancer. So why did Fox News threaten to fire her? By Jane Akre, May 28, 2002 |
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| Query Interesting An open pitch letter to Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's. By Ken Gordon, April 18, 2002 |
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| Life Inside the "Bubble" A Times reporter reveals the antics of his fellow journalists on the grueling Bush 2000 campaign trail. By Frank Bruni, April 15, 2002 |
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| Bye Bye, Blues "It's hard to finish work when you're curled in the fetal position." By Diana Michèle Yap, April 11, 2002 |
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| The Corrections How The New York Times came to 'fess up, daily. Plus: A sampler of the paper's memorable goofs. By Allan M. Siegal, March 29, 2002 |
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| Ben Is Dead is Not Dead! Feisty '80s zine culture lives on through sites like RobotFrank and Memepool. It's media criticism for the common man! By Bill Lessard, March 26, 2002 |
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| Avoiding an Audit Five red flags to watch for on your tax return. By Adam Wasserman, March 25, 2002 |
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| From the desk of Diana Vreeland As opaque and fabulous as haiku: memos from the legendary Vogue editor. By Albert Lee, March 9, 2002 |
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| NYFA offers 9/11 aid for journalists "People had contracts in place that were cancelled, whose studios were destroyed, whose articles were killed." By Albert Lee, March 6, 2002 |
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| How articles get made into movies A former Inside.com film reporter and Hollywood development exec explains it all for you. By Elizabeth Hackett, February 25, 2002 |
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| Below the Fold: No fame, no hook, no story Why journalism has given up on ordinary people, except in a few places like New York Press. By Clive Thompson, February 22, 2002 |
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| Everything I need to know about writing I learned editing (and vice versa) Tack 'em on your wall: The Ten Commandments for writers—plus, ten more for editors. By Peter Flax, February 19, 2002 |
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| A CNN producer's first day at war Trailing Christiane Amanpour past bullets, munching on the local dictator's salami sandwiches, and scooping the macho NBC guys—all in a day's work. By Siobhan Darrow, February 4, 2002 |
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| Patriotism and the Press: Tribal warfare Let Geraldo take up arms and Katha burn the flag! What's so wrong about tribalism? By John Strausbaugh, January 27, 2002 |
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| Love and war Patriotism is about love of country. And since when did love have anything to do with politics? By Philip Green, January 26, 2002 |
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| Bad energy As pious journalists cluck over the Enron mess, they've forgotten how they helped create the beast. By Clive Thompson, January 24, 2002 |
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| Show me the money! A small-claims lawsuit accomplished what 37 emails couldn't: get me paid. By Michelle Leder, January 10, 2002 |
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| Setting of the Sun Conrad Black gets his own New York newspaper, finally! I give it three (crazy) years. By Clive Thompson, January 7, 2002 |
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| Take this job and love it Rethinking your career, post-9/11? Think again. By Tom Gogola, January 3, 2002 |
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| Book review: With Love and Squalor Why do we love J.D. Salinger so much? Because he just understands. By Paul McLeary, December 20, 2001 |
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| Color blind Interviewing staffers from USA Today, The Washington Post, and more, a veteran newsman discusses what's wrong with diversity reporting today. By William McGowan, December 18, 2001 |
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| the untouchable First, white Democrats abandoned Sharpton. Now, is even the leftist Village Voice backing away from Reverend Al? By Albert Lee, December 11, 2001 |
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| The pitch letter that scored a Parade cover story A sample query letter. By Lynn Harris, November 28, 2001 |
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| Expert advice: Freelance survival strategies Twenty-nine strategies you should be using. By Lynn Harris, November 28, 2001 |
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| Welcome to the Dollhouse Wherein our hero, on his first day at Vanity Fair, endures ritual humiliations and editor-in-chief Graydon Carter's infamous "seven rooms" pep talk. By Toby Young, November 26, 2001 |
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| Jonathan Franzen vs. Oprah: In defense of elitism Can you be elitist and write a best-seller? Sure: Nabokov did. By Richard Harth, November 1, 2001 |
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| Why Lucky is the only women's magazine I read With Condé Nast's shopping mag, you don't have to lose ten pounds. You just have to buy stuff. By Alison Rogers, October 17, 2001 |
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| How a Freelancer Became a National Threat How a Dazed and Confused article landed a journalist on the most-wanted list. By Richard Baimbridge, October 15, 2001 |
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| Sept. 11: Dispatch from a Suffering City To Non-New York Family and Friends By Richard Behar, September 13, 2001 |
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| Books in Brief: The Center of Things by Jenny McPhee An ambitious novel of ideas—in the body of a beach read for media people. By Diana Michele Yap, September 1, 2001 |
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| Blender: Dennis Publishing's Well-Blended Man How does Blender hope to be the "Ultimate Music Magazine"? By not being a music magazine. By Chris Allbritton, August 20, 2001 |
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| Playboy: Played Out Rarely has a major magazine been so ripe for an editorial overhaul and a redesign. By Andrew Hearst, July 6, 2001 |
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| A Conversation with David Czuchlewski "I accumulated a stack of rejection letters before I got lucky with Putnam." By Darby Saxbe, May 21, 2001 |
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| David Granger Has Something Stuck Between His Teeth Tom Junod, in attempting to transcend the tired celeb profile, merely regurgitates its most familiar cliches. By Andrew Hearst, May 17, 2001 |
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| Hollywood North: Running Away to Canada "There were 42 films shooting in Toronto this March. It's a traffic disaster area." By Katy McLaughlin, May 14, 2001 |
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| How To Write a Story Pitch The four things a pitch letter should convey. By Alison Rogers, April 19, 2001 |
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| A Conversation with Nan A. Talese "Random House is like a huge aircraft carrier, and I think of myself more as a small dinghy." By Laurel Touby, April 18, 2001 |
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| The Truth About "Public" Radio Why does Big Broadcasting—and even National Public Radio—hate low-power FM? By Alita Edgar and David Hirschman, April 6, 2001 |
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| Conversation with Douglas Krizner, Director of Bloomberg Radio "Consolidation has changed the face of radio business." By Leona Churchill, March 26, 2001 |
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| Workaholics Anonymous: Who in Media Works the Hardest? Graphic designers and writers are the leisure class, but who works hardest? You might be surprised. By Sasie Sealy and Alita Edgar, March 15, 2001 |
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| Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television by Don Hewitt The legendary CBS newsman reminisces on insider politics and backbiting. By Alita Edgar, February 27, 2001 |
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| Goings On About the Web The New Yorker finally has a Web site. But the articles and illustrations aren't its most interesting feature. By Andrew Hearst, February 19, 2001 |
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| The Bootleg Remedy The soul of Bluegrass with the nuances of old-time Dixieland--all in a one-of-a-kind Brooklyn package. January 28, 2001 |
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| Medianatomy: Tucker's World The Weekly Standard's Tucker Carlson may be poised for Bush-era ubiquity, but his inane CNN talk show is all too reminiscent of a TV phenomenon from an earlier Bush administration. Party time! Excellent! By Andrew Hearst, January 19, 2001 |
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| Dot-Com Diary: Rebel Trying to Get a Clue Salon.com is still a rarity on the web, but will it ever make money? By Sacha Cohen, January 9, 2001 |
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| Medianatomy: Atlantic Redux After a year with a new editor, has The Atlantic finally awoken from its sleepy past? By Andrew Hearst, January 2, 2001 |
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| A Conversation with Marc Barry By Alita Edgar, December 7, 2000 |
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| When "Church" and "State" Collide: Advertising Professionals Weigh In "Editors now realize that magazines are a business that needs to make money." By Darby Saxbe, November 28, 2000 |
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| Books in Brief: The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank A veteran journalist's biting satire reveals the inner workings of D.C. punditry. By Darby Saxbe, June 14, 2000 |
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