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Blog Exercises: Current Events for May

May 7, 2013 – 12:58 pm

Been watching the news lately? It’s time to blog the news and current events for May in our Blog Exercises. Have you enjoyed blogging the news? I’ve only asked for one newsworthy blog post a month. Some of you have gone a bit overboard, while others still struggle to find something from the news to […]

Blog Exercises: April Current Events

April 15, 2013 – 4:51 am

It’s time to blog the news and current events for April in our Blog Exercises. Has it been easy or hard to find news and current events to publish once a month on your site? Sometimes the muse hits us when we learn of a newsworthy event that directly relates to us. Other times we […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog the news, Blogging Tips, citizen journalist, current events, industry news, journalism, news, news blogging, newspaper coverage, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: March Current Events

March 25, 2013 – 4:45 am

It’s time to blog the news and current events in our Blog Exercises for March. The first Current Events exercise was in January, and it featured some ideas to help you get motivated to blog some news and current events. Find a way of making the news or a current event tie in with your […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, citizen journalist, current events, electronic frontier foundation, freedom of expression, journalism, news, protests, web writing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Weather Reports

February 20, 2013 – 4:46 am

February is a month of dramatic weather for many parts of the world. Sometimes January is fierce, and February slows the season down or speeds it up with floods, snows, rains, and sudden bursts of warm temperatures, creating a false Spring, fooling trees and flowers. Sometimes January was the lamb and February brings devastation from […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, citizen journalist, drought, heat, heat wave, hurricane, ice, journalism, rain, seasons, snow, storms, weather, weather reporting, weather reports, web writing, Writing | Comments (7)

Blog Exercises: Current Events for February

February 13, 2013 – 4:43 am

Every month in this series of Blog Exercises I will ask you to check the news and report on something in the news that relates to you and/or your site’s purpose. It may directly relate or indirectly. The first Current Events exercise was in January. It’s another month and time to blog the news and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blogging, citizen journalist, content, current events, editorial, industry, journalism, new reporting, news, Writing, writing tips | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Current Events January

January 25, 2013 – 4:41 am

Every month in this series of Blog Exercises I will ask you to check the news and report on something in the news that relates to you and/or your site’s purpose. It may directly relate or indirectly. Fascinated with the alignment of the planets, I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the ease of watching […]