This article will appear in the December edition of Saathee Magazine

The Federal Trade Commission has revised Endorsement Guidelines to include bloggers who receive compensation for endorsing a product, so that they will have to disclose in their writing, that they have either received cash or in-kind payment. The FTC states that, " bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service."

Personally, I've got no p...

     
In the opinion of some people, if a writer uses their talent to blog for a living, they're disingenuous, dishonest, and untrustworthy.

I recently read someone who I hold in high esteem say that they'll unfollow a person who is paid to blog because they can't trust that person anymore. I could have let that comment get to me but I didn't. You see, I am...

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Internet Killed the Newspaper Star

As a writer and journalist, one might think that when the day came, that the newspaper died, I would personally, take it very painfully. As an idealistic kid, I used to think I'd grow up to be a double or triple-column, half-page writer in some major newspaper…naturally, I'd also be writing the great American Novel, Oscar winning screenplays, and directing all of my own films. 

Twenty years ago, we didn't see it coming. The fact that t...