5 reasons why TV coverage of Cyclone Phailin is disappointing
The build up is incredible. Every television channel is focusing on Cyclone Phailin. You are being repeatedly told that the danger posed by the storm […]
Month: October 2013
2 characteristics web journalism shares with news agencies
Web journalism is closer to news agency journalism than to print journalism. Both have instant deadlines, require constant updation and feed users across geographic locations […]
How to use punctuation marks in headlines
You cannot write a sentence without using a punctuation mark. The same is true of headlines which are skeletonised sentences. The punctuation marks perform two […]
How to write for search engines
You have two masters on the net. The first master is your reader. The second master is the search engine. Both are equally important. The […]
How to club news reports
Digital editing may have made the art of clubbing copy — a newspaper term for joining news reports — easier, but it is a skill […]
All that you need to know about hashtags
The hash symbol # that sits on top of the numeral 3 on your keyboard never had it so good. First, it was Twitter that […]
5 characteristics of an anchor story
The Front Page of a newspaper showcases the best news reports of the day. Invariably, these are reports that in newspaper parlance are called hard […]
8 key advantages web journalism has over print
Web journalism enjoys eight key advantages over print in the way it covers, publishes and stores news reports. These advantages are: # Advantage 1 Web […]
5 ways to make money from your blog
Who does not want to earn extra money? Especially, if you have worked hard to create a blog. Here are five ways to make your […]