{"id":3210,"date":"2008-10-26T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2008-10-26T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:56:19","slug":"memo-to-newspaper-bloggers-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/10\/26\/memo-to-newspaper-bloggers-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to newspaper bloggers: Be human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some good, down-to-earth advice from Matt Sokoloff at Lost Remote about how newspaper bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostremote.com\/2008\/10\/26\/blogs-on-their-way-out\/\">should approach<\/a> what they do, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>1.<\/strong> Have a voice &#8211; The key isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about having a bias but rather being human. News affects people including yourself, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be afraid to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just post wire stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Engage with your readers &#8211; Not only should you solicit comment but you should also respond to them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>and probably the most important:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enjoy it, you shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be doing it &#8211; you can always tell when you are reading a blogger who enjoys blogging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would echo each of those points, which boil down to a) be human; b) be interesting; c) be engaged and c) have fun. One of the other tips from Matt (who is the interactive product manager at the Orlando Sentinel) is to use full-text feeds, something I wish a lot more newspapers did. The Guardian just switched <a href=\"http:\/\/googlereader.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/reading-guardian-full-text-style.html\">to doing so<\/a>, and I hope others follow suit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good, down-to-earth advice from Matt Sokoloff at Lost Remote about how newspaper bloggers should approach what they do, including: 1. Have a voice &#8211; The key isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about having a bias but rather being human. News affects people including yourself, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be afraid to talk about it. 2. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just post wire stories. 3. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/10\/26\/memo-to-newspaper-bloggers-be-human\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memo to newspaper bloggers: Be human&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}