Ryan Thornburg
One of the complaints that news Web site designers often hear from readers who prefer print is that it is tough to tell when you’re “done” reading a news Web site. In print, physical cues let readers know when they’re done skimming through everything that the editors thought was important to print that day. But online, a labyrinth of links leaves some readers disoriented and anxious about when it’s OK to stop reading.
Enter FluidTunes..
My colleague Chris Roush has a nice interview with one of his former students who is trying to blog for cash.
Aaron Kremer launched RichmondBizSense.com at the beginning of the year, and he’s now reaching more than 1,300 readers a day through his Web site and via an e-mail service.
Roush gets Kremer to tell us how he did it… and how you can, too!
The keys appear to be these:
1. Find a niche and own it. All of it. All the time.
2. Get started by sacrificing your personal time and all your money.
This isn’t a business for the timid, my friends.
For more than a year, I’ve been holding up Dan Froomkin’s Nieman Watchdog article about I.F. Stone as a great first stop for journalism students who are trying to understand what I mean when I say that thorough, accurate reporting and “voice” need to co-exist in their writing if they want to be successful journalistic bloggers.
But at a faculty picnic tonight, my colleague Dave Cupp inadvertently gave me another old-media model — Edward R. Murrow.