There are some useful tips on writing online on a special wiki set up by the Online Journalism Review. We'll talk about this a bit in class if there's time. (The other sections of the wiki are worth a look later on - incidentally, the site seemed to be unavailable when I looked for it this morning - hopefully it's back online now).
For an example of media critique and how to use links, have a look at a piece written a year or so ago by Jay Rosen, an American journalism professor - a column for the LA Times, taking apart a comment piece the paper had run before, also written by a journalism professor, arguing that blogs weren't serious journalistic tools.
Rosen is a committed advocate of both blogs and online journalism in general - his piece is a well informed, well argued rebuttal of the first piece. Have a look at it and think about the way he uses links and the way he puts the piece together.
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