There are writing tips. And then there are writing tips. And there are some more. Writing Forward has 22 of them. 2. Read as much and as often as you can. Remember, every writer is a reader first. 3. Keep a journal or notebook handy at all times so you can jot down all of…
Daily Archives: 6 December 2007
‘News shows are getting comedic and vice-versa’
The New York Times‘ three-time Pulitzer Prize winning foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman has “scooped” an Iranian intelligence note to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which in a strange sort of way captures the truth about the news business in America: “We have to note that obtaining open-source intelligence in America has become more difficult, because…
‘A newspaper that’s a genuine viewspaper’
Its current circulation is 1.3 million. Its operating profits are up 25 per cent; revenues up 4 per cent in the first six months of this financial year. It is a magazine that calls itself a newspaper. It is sober yet witty and carries only a few bylines. Yet, with more than half its copies…