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The 2016 Edition of Music Journalism 101
The 2016 edition of Music Journalism 101 is the audiobook. Want forward-notice of availability, want to contribute, or get your music on it? Read on.
Journalism warning labels. Full of win!
As many people do in this day and age of being overwhelmed by information, much of what I read online is via RSS feeds. I use Google Reader, simply because it’s central – and it syncs to my portable time-stealing…
Where is the criticism?
One of the reasons why I began writing my music journalism course was because I became totally and utterly fed up with the poor standard of music journalism one tends to find around the place. But it transpires that lack…
The problem with monetising internet publications
News and publishing commentators are always apt to tell us – frequently – that the death of magazines and newspapers, in print, is imminent. Similarly, they like to bang on about how these same web-based publications are struggling with revenue.…