Re: High Gear Media Though many internet sites do not yet have much of a budget to hire professional writers, some do and it’s worthwhile to search those publications out instead of giving away your talent for free to those online publications who don’t value your talent enough to pay for them. It’s the old… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Road Ahead – Pay Walls
The $15 billon, 44% drop, in U.S, newspaper advertising over the first three quarters of 2009, as compared with the same period in 2006, has many large U.S. newspapers evaluating ways to charge for their digital offerings.
The Tom-Tom: Terry Parkhurst: Internet Scammers
“While I can understand the frustration that someone is willing to provide for free, something that you have been paid for in the past, I don’t appreciate the allegation,” he wrote in an e-mail, adding, “We never promised that we would ever want to hire you or anyone else or pay a penny.”
Autowriters Spotlight: Jil McIntosh
It’s hard for me to believe – gray hair aside – that I’ve been writing professionally about cars for 25 years. I’d churned out stories since I was a child, and during an early-1980s stint as a taxi driver in Toronto, I met a driver who collected antique cars. I had no interest in vehicles, but when I saw them, I wanted one.
In Praise of Press Fleets
Alone after drop-off—unless a chaser car’s involved—they trudge off into the day or the night to the bus, subway or train. Their reward is another car to be delivered to another journalist, who may or may not be in a good mood that day or may criticize a car’s maker or car color straight off instead of looking in the driver’s eye for the briefest of greetings and perhaps ask how the trip was.