Comments on: 10 reasons (or more) to be a jolly journalist

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14 great sites about branding your own journalism | STL Social Media Guy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:23:02 +0000

[...] 10 reasons (or more) to be a jolly journalist Getting out there and talking about the things you want to talk about — whether your editor wants you to or not. [...]

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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:31:54 +0000

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By: Visión. Un ’blog’ del grupo Joly. » Archivo » 10 razones para que los periodistas estemos contentos

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:41:57 +0000

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Rebuilding a Web journalism class from scratch « Online Journalism Student — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:37:40 +0000

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:11:48 +0000

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By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:29:24 +0000

Yeah, I would go with what you say there about point 4, but that comes back to the fact that so many press releases are – as you point out – terribly written (not mine of course )

By: paulb

paulb — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:22:25 +0000

@Craig point 2 – perhaps it’s badly phrased: the point is, the editor isn’t the only arbiter of quality. Point 4 you misunderstand: it’s saying that rewriting press releases becomes a redundant part of the job. And OK, they may be in dire need of a rewrite, but hey, there’s more important things to write about.

By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:39:22 +0000

I’d need to take objections with a couple of those points:

1) Point 2 – You print stories that the editor spiked/didn’t like and he finds out? At luckiest, you’ll get a bollocking. At worst, sacked – and that’s before the copyright issues.

2) Point 4 talks about no more need for rewriting – for a lot of journalists rewrites (and sub-editors) make a story better.

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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:26:01 +0000

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By: Merge ahead « Content Ninja’s Weblog

Merge ahead « Content Ninja’s Weblog — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:24:10 +0000

[...] and team even posted their Top 10 list of reasons on the blog. You can add your reasons at JollyJournalist. Go on. Spread the [...]