Viral business writing: 23 ways to to succeed
Staff September 24, 2014
Want to get more eyeballs to your stories? Writers and editors on a panel at FinCon 2014 say there are tried and true methods that give your pieces a better
Want to get more eyeballs to your stories? Writers and editors on a panel at FinCon 2014 say there are tried and true methods that give your pieces a better
Our calling is inhabited by three kinds of news organizations. Let’s use the Sergio Leone scale: • The Good are ones that practice serious, aggressive journalism, value business news, encourage
Business journalists especially face the accusation of being “negative.” Companies want to control their image. Many small outfits have no experience in dealing with the press. Also, more and more,
At one time, it took many years before a select few journalists could be invested in the purple as columnists. This carried distinct benefits: They were seasoned veterans with the
@BizJournalism has @jontalton done a piece on biz headlines? I’d like to read that. — Alex Dalenberg (@alexdalenberg) March 31, 2014 A reader of the most recent post, on writing
Before I pick at the splinters in your writing, let me roll out a few of my logs. Here are a week’s worth of ledes from my column and daily
Nothing beats boots on the ground. With staff and budget cuts, newspapers do less “parachuting in” on stories away from their hometown. That’s too bad because in an interconnected world
One of the chief missions of this blog is to give “a kick in the butt” to business journalism. But it’s a tough balance. I want to kick without getting
Editor’s note: This will be Phillip Blanchard’s final regular post for BusinessJournalism.org. A copy editor on the Washington Post Financial desk for 6 1/2 years and founder of an online
I hate to be an exhibitionist, but here it is: My reference stand. And I use it. Every day. In the digital age. It’s probably a sign of the tar
Copy editors who attended The American Copy Editors Society’s 2012 Conference’s “Financial Editing” session learned how to ensure text is clear and readable for investors and that verbiage is accurate and
I could feel lobbyist Lanny Davis’ constant energy when I read D.M. Levine’s profile of him (PDF) for The American Lawyer. Levine sets that tone right away in the second
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