Amir Kurtovic

Freelance Journalist, Writer and Social Media Victim

Tag: blogging

5 Simple Tweaks That Will Increase Your Blog Readership

The easiest way to increase the readership of your blog is to … you guessed it …. blog more. But writing takes times, as does reporting. So, if you want to increase the readership of your blog without writing more posts every day, following these tips will help. 1. Headlines make the world go ’round [...]

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 [...]

How to do a slideshow the right way

I came across this slideshow (below) on globalpost.com and thought it was an excellent example of what a good slideshow should be. It has interesting photos, compelling subject matter, and great narration. Granted, it is a slideshow from a patrol in Afghanistan. The one positive aspect of war, if such a thing exists, is that [...]

Who is a Journalist? Federal shield law provides answer…

The proposed federal shield law S. 448, or the “Free Flow of Information Act of 2009″, is supposed to finally give journalists a federal law that protects the right to grant sources anonymity without the fear of  subpoenas. But another thing the bill does is define who is covered by it. According to S. 448, [...]

Going 100% ad-free

I decided to remove all advertising from my blog. Really, it’s not as if I was making a lot of money from it anyways. But money, or the lack of it, is not why I am going 100% ad-free. The real reason is that I don’t like advertising, you don’t like advertising, and neither of [...]