Amir Kurtovic

Freelance Journalist, Writer and Social Media Victim

Category: Digital Media

Photos Of The Protest During Obama’s St. Louis Visit

Below is a gallery of some the photos I took during the protest yesterday in St. Louis downtown. To read my article about the visit on the Riverfront Times website, click here.

Stealing The News – When Bloggers Become Plagiarists

Journalism is under fire from all directions. Newspapers are losing circulation and shuting down. Reporters are getting laid off. Profits are bad, and the Internet has turned the news into a commodity.
Add to the list of growing problems: plagiarism.
Most journalists used to think that bloggers were nothing but plagiarist; taking their reporting and rewriting a [...]

The truthiness about online news

St. Louis Globe-Democrat may harm your computer

The announcement that the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a newspaper that folded in the ’80s, would be revived in an online-only format was greeted with a bit of enthusiasm by people like myself (future unemployed journalists). A new outlet and possible place to freelance, I thought. Plus, the guy in charge, Dan Rositano, is the owner [...]

On-line Frelance Wrting a.k.a. Slav Laber for Moroons

Ok guys, like, you totally have to check this out. If your a awesomlly good writer, you can make the big bucks online writing like 20 great “articles” a days.
Here’s an example of the great jobs the awate those with great writing abilitys, curtosee of GetAFreelancer.com:

Yes, you read rite: “Quality Writers needef ro big project”
So, [...]