Journamalism

Kathy Walton points us to this gem appearing in LiveJournal's Journalists community:

Getting feedback

Getting letters about stories you have written, isn't that the nicest thing? I've been in my job a few months and today I got two letters about stories I have written. It's nice to know someone actually reads them and finds them interesting (on a weekly I find myself having to get excited about somewhat mundane every day things).

I think we would get a lot more feeback if we had an email address at the end of stories or even our name on them, but that's another story!

We even have to make up letters for our own letters page on occasion as we don't have enough suitable ones. About 50% of the letters we get sent in are these charity ones signed by a 'celebrity', those annoy me so much. [emphasis added – ALB]

This piece of work isn't so thrilled with the feedback she's getting. Apparently some working journalists actually think that Making Shit Up is not part of the job. How quaint.

As I told her in my own feedback: There is a future for you in crossing the Atlantic and joining the Washington press corps.