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Writing For Pay Ep. 011 Show Notes

Christa Terry is the writer and editor of the bridal blog Manolo For The Brides. Her book iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net is coming out on June 10.

  • Job-hunting in Boston.
  • Envy and spite: valuable career tools.
  • Enter the Manolo.
  • Editorial policy in the Manolo blog empire.
  • Blogging for pay: how does it work?
  • Blogger ethics and conflicts of interest.
  • Never Teh Bride does not shill, even for freebies.
  • Blogging gives a writer a tremendous intimacy with readers.
  • Anonymity or infamy? Blogging with a persona.
  • Does your bridal blog change once you become a bride?

Christa’s book:
iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net

Christa’s blogs:
http://www.manolobrides.com

http://www.manolohome.com

Christa recommends:
The Everything Guide To Writing A Book Proposal

Music by Morgansorange

Add comment June 1st, 2008

Writing For Pay Ep. 010 Show Notes

Christa Terry is the writer and editor of the bridal blog Manolo For The Brides. Her book iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net is coming out on June 10.

  • Our first long-distance show using Skype!
  • Do gender stereotypes hold true — are men afraid of wedding talk?
  • What happens when a bridal blogger plans her own wedding.
  • Eating mints before eight o’clock can doom a marriage.
  • Don’t be too quick to flee that internship for a paying job.
  • Auditioning for a job in the newspaper business, and the perils of getting the job you want.
  • Journalist by day, New Age freelancer by night.
  • Using Craigslist to find freelance work.
  • Good or bad, put it all on your resume!

Christa’s book:
iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net

Christa’s blogs:
http://www.manolobrides.com

http://www.manolohome.com

Christa recommends:
The Everything Guide To Writing A Book Proposal

Music by Morgansorange

Add comment May 25th, 2008

Writing For Pay Ep. 010 - Christa Terry Pt. 1

It’s spring, and Writing For Pay’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Wade interviews Christa Terry, writer and editor of Manolo For The Brides and author of the upcoming book “iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net”.

Show notes at www.writingforpay.org

 
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Add comment May 25th, 2008

Writing For Pay Ep. 009 Show Notes

Jim Geluso covers the city beat at the Bakersfield Californian.

  • Wade has a new job.
  • We return to the next thrilling installment of our interview with Jim Geluso, newspaper reporter.
  • The rewards of a career in journalism.
  • The challenges that the newspaper industry faces today.
  • How is it adapting? Not very well.
  • Newspapers: less litigious, self-righteous about their content than some industries we could name.
  • Still want to be a journalist? Really? Advice on breaking into the field.

Jim’s City Beat blog at the Californian: http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/citybeat

Poynter Online - Romenesko blog:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

Music by Morgansorange

Add comment March 22nd, 2008

Writing For Pay Ep. 009 - Jim Geluso Pt. 2

Wade plays hardball with Jim Geluso, pressing him with tough questions about the life of a journalist. In Part Two of the interview, Jim talks about the excitement of local news reporting, the challenges facing the newspaper industry, and how Yahoo! News and the Associated Press are killing journalism.

Show notes at www.writingforpay.org

 
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Add comment March 22nd, 2008

About that journalism career you were thinking of pursuing…

The New York Times plans to cut 100 newsroom jobs. Yikes.

If you are interested in a journalism career, you’ll definitely want to listen to Part Two of my interview with Jim, and hear his thoughts on why and why not to go into that field right now.

In fact, this is such a huge issue that he and I are thinking of recording another show over the phone. Or Skype. Or Talkshoe. Some sort of newfangled long-distance talky-machine.

Add comment February 15th, 2008

Writing For Pay Ep. 008 Show Notes

Jim Geluso covers the city beat at the Bakersfield Californian.

  • 0:45 - The Writing For Pay account on del.icio.us is no more. If you want to share a cool writing link, just tag your bookmark “writingforpay”.
  • 1:02 - Wade is sick, but still he must write for pay.
  • 2:39 - Wade sits down with Jim Geluso, a real live newspaper reporter.
  • 2:50 - Journalism might be a type of writing that gets you laid, which disqualifies it from this podcast. Is this interview already over?
  • 4:05 - The types of writing that Jim does for the paper.
  • 6:45 - People want hard news from Washington D.C. and happy feature stories from their local area. Why?
  • 7:58 - How Jim got started in writing - a passion for news and politics.
  • 9:22 - Jim’s first paid writing job.
  • 10:21 - The day to day challenges of journalism.

Jim’s City Beat blog at the Californian: http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/citybeat

Music by Morgansorange

Add comment February 13th, 2008




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