Monthly Archives: November 2011

Nov 30

Use Globe of Blogs for story ideas in your hometown

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Barbara Fought

Blogs are the electronic water cooler of our day–like the copy machine or maybe the Starbuck’s line — the place where you find out what people are talking about.   Seasoned reporters told me to listen to the chat there … Read More →

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Nov 25

Learn from the best — Murrow, SPJ and Pulitzer winners

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Barbara Fought

Someone once told me that in when Secret Service agents are taught how to spot counterfeit bills they don’t look at various types of fake money.  They are required to  study and study and study the real bills. Then when … Read More →

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Nov 21

LinkedIn can be great tool for journalists

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Barbara Fought

My friend and former student Kim Brown (@KimInCuse) brought one of our Syracuse University alums, Krista Canfield, to my office about a year ago to show me some tricks with LinkedIn. Krista is the company’s senior manager in corporate communications. … Read More →

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Nov 17

Help for finding a name to go with a phone number

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Barbara Fought

A number comes up on your cell phone and you don’t recognize it. Or you clean out your purse and there is a scrap of paper that has a phone number, but you have no memory of whose it is. … Read More →

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Nov 14

Track words or stories in the blogosphere

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Barbara Fought

update: Blogpulse was purchased and shuttered in January, 2012. If I put the word “Sandusky” into a blog search two weeks ago maybe I would have come up with something about the city in Ohio, near my hometown, that is … Read More →

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Nov 10

How to search beyond Google and Yahoo!

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Barbara Fought

Have a name of someone but can’t find much about him or her online? Search engines only go so far.  You will likely find more at PIPL.com  which searches the deep web.  That means it searches into databases and public … Read More →

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Nov 03

Find out the buzz online

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Barbara Fought

If you’re new to a topic or even trolling online for story ideas, why not spend a few minutes seeing what people are blogging about. It’s my new mantra — spend seven minutes on something to see what I can … Read More →

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