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The Great Ghost-Blogging Debate

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It’s probably too early to say, but I’m inclined to bet that in the huge majority of cases, ghost writing and social media are fundamentally incompatible. A lot depends, of course, on the extent and nature of the ghost writing. Write something.”. If a CEO doesn’t care enough to write his or her own blog, why pretend to?

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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

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What I do like about the obsessions model,” he writes, “is that obsessions are destined to be temporary and responsive to reality.” Covering such phenomena through a traditional beat structure, he writes, “is difficult: they often cut across beat boundaries, taking in politics, economics, technology, and other issues.

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Beats vs. Obsessions: More Lessons for B2B from Quartz

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What I do like about the obsessions model,” he writes, “is that obsessions are destined to be temporary and responsive to reality.” Covering such phenomena through a traditional beat structure, he writes, “is difficult: they often cut across beat boundaries, taking in politics, economics, technology, and other issues.

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Defeating the Blank Page: S. J. Perelman on the Chandler Method

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In a late-1950s Paris Review interview, he was asked what he did to overcome the blank page and start writing an essay. in fact became so excited that he kept plying me with information for months about the machine that helped him. MUD day 12: On a day when I have little time and less inspiration, I will let the sadly neglected S.

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Your Content May Be a Commodity, But You’re Not

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Any information you have to share has most likely been published elsewhere, and more than once. has developed software that writes (or, rather, assembles) stories based on statistics from college football and basketball, NASCAR and other sports. In a world where everyone’s a publisher, content is a commodity. But so what?

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

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Both Lohr’s article and a more recent series by Farhad Manjoo in Slate , “ Will Robots Steal Your Job ,” examine the efforts of IT startups to develop software that performs skilled, creative work such as writing. As James W. Michaels, former editor of Forbes, was known to bellow: That is ‘not reporting, it’s stenography!’”.

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Selling and Journalism

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In his former life as a journalist, Farbman said, “I always had the sense that I was creating information, but the real purpose of that information was to sell something—to sell newspapers and ad space.” I’ve been reading the autobiography of the late novelist Mark Harris , Best Father Ever Invented.