Making It in the Political Blogosphere

Haas (speech communication arts and sciences, City U. of New York, Brooklyn College) provides profiles and interviews of 20 political bloggers who share their tips for success. From both sides of the political world, they include Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, Taegan Goddard of Political Wire, Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, Eric Olsen of Blogcritics, Andrew Malcolm of Top of the Ticket, Nick Gillespie of Hit & Run, Thomas Lifson of American Thinker, Steve Clemons of The Washington Note, Heather Parton of Hullaballoo, and Cheryl Contee of Jack & Jill Politics, who describe their start, challenges they faced, their audience, reasons for their success, advice for those starting out, common mistakes, how to attract and retain readers, and other topics. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tanni Haas, Ph.D. holds the Leonard & Claire Tow Professorship and is a Full Professor in the Department of Speech Communication Arts & Sciences at the City University of New York Brooklyn College. An avid political blog reader, he is the author of The Pursuit of Public Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Routledge, 2007), which is due out in Chinese and Korean translation, as well as three dozen scholarly journal articles and book chapters on political blogging and other forms of citizen-based journalism.