When Bloomberg LP, a popular news and financial information source, first looked at a potential purchase of Mcgraw-Hill’s BusinessWeek magazine, Bloomberg passed on the opportunity. However, BusinessWeek has reported on its website that Bloomberg may have reentered the process of bidding for ownership of Business Week for reasons yet to be determined.
 
BusinessWeek will not accept any bids after September 15, which means that Bloomberg only has a small window of time to decide whether or not it actually wants to enter a bid. The two companies will apparently meet next week so that Bloomberg can get a better idea of …read more

One of the things that you can do with social media is to become a news supplier via different social media outlet. Understanding what it takes to become a social media news supplier is the purpose of this article.
Whether you use Twitter or Facebook or even LinkedIn, you can supply news via social media of things that are happening in your industry. Or you may choose to share about news your have read from other sources. If you do choose to do this, make sure that you credit them as a source.
To help you determine if you can be a …read more

One the way home from the mall today, I was listening to the radio, and the DJ started talking about current events. He talked a lot about the current situation in North Korea, and about how it’s amazing that more people aren’t talking about it and don’t even know much about the topic. And he’s right – as Americans, we should know and understand current events that effect our country, at least on a basic level.
If you’re a freelance writer, you should take even more care to understand current events. Clients like to hire people who understand what’s going on …read more

I am thrilled that one of the articles I wrote for Bankling, on the world’s richest pets, was mentioned by the Wall Street Journal Blogs. I’m thrilled. We bloggers do like recognition on occasion, and it is precisely why we tell everyone about it when it happens ;)
A lovely surprise for a Sunday.
Hope you enjoy the rest of your day, and that you are ready for a new week — and a new month!

Every few days, there’s a news story that the entire country seems to be simultaneously be googling. Usually the story has to do with a celebrity, a scandal, or a tragedy (and sometimes all three). If you’re a blogger, you can really capitalize on almost any kind of news story out there – if you’re smart about it. And it isn’t always about beating the clock.
Let’s face it. Unless you’re the TOP website for you niche, re-posting a news story isn’t likely going to bring you much traffic…and really, even if you are one of the few websites who writes …read more

Google CEO Eric Schmidt may not seem like the most likely candidate to speak at a newspaper convention, but sources announced that he’ll be giving the keynote address at the Newspaper Association of America’s annual convention. Right now, most print news publishers are seeing a dramatic loss of sales, and many blame online news aggregation services like Google.
Analysts estimate that Google is responsible for 20% to 30% of all traffic sent to newspaper websites. In the past, Schmidt has urged newspapers to jump on board with better technology, allowing them to increase their revenue from online readership. Many, however, question …read more

As I was looking for freelance writing and editing and etc. jobs I came across one called, I kid you not: News Designer
If you follow the link you’ll find the listing ABC posted on MediaBistro… apparently they want someone to design the kinds graphics that show up on TV news these days.
But the headline! It confirmed my worst fears about what passes as news on so many of our public airways these days. That’s right, we the public, do, at least in theory, own the airways.
It could be that in the news business, the term, news designer, is recognized jargon, …read more

BuzzNetworker, another b5media blog, has a post today called: Citizen Journalism. It highlights the Center for Citizen Media, which is new to me, then goes on to talk about the fact that the San Jose Mercury News has called for neighborhood bloggers.
In one sense citizen journalism isn’t new at all. When you stop and think about it, Thomas Payne was a citizen first, so was Ben Franklin and countless others who broke news and changed worlds. In fact, professional journalism is really the new kid on the block, developing, according to some, in the early 20th century.
What’s different, of course, …read more

This is taking chances month at the b5media.com business channel. We’ve been challenged to do something slightly differently. Hence my call for guest bloggers the other day. (And you’re still welcome to submit one, or two, or… )
I’ve also changed the tag line – no, not the one under the logo on top (more about that in another blog) but over on the right, above my name. The new tag is: Making good money as a freelance writer.
What do you think? Is that a better description of this blog? Do you have a better idea? Let us know.
Write well and …read more

I heard something on the news this morning about movement in the writer’s strike, but I was looking up jobs or making coffee or something and didn’t hear the whole clip. Once the jobs were finished, the newsletter sent and the job entry made, I used Google News to try to catch up. What I got was more confusion. Here are the headlines at the moment:
LA story: $1.5 billion lost due to the strike – MSNBC I’d label this one almost a fear piece about the economic impact of the strike, because of the way it’s framed. The subhead is …read more