{"id":4793,"date":"2008-11-20T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T10:24:39","slug":"free-typepad-pro-blog-accounts-for-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/free-typepad-pro-blog-accounts-for-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Free TypePad Pro Blog Accounts for Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six Apart is telling laid off journalists &#8220;Your Tumblr, while clever, will not pay your bills.&#8221; and have launched the TypePad Journalist Bailout Program in support of online journalism and to <strong>help jobless journalists start their own site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, journalists will get a <strong>free TypePad Pro blog account.<\/strong> Now they can unleash the same blogging tool used by big media blogs, and also get professional support. Normally a Typepad Pro Subscription costs $150 a year, which they are giving out free.<\/p>\n<p>You can join the Six Apart Media advertising program and <strong>display high paying ads<\/strong> and keep the revenue. Six Apart will promote your new site on Blogs.com <strong>directory of the best in blogs<\/strong>. They can introduce you to the <strong>VIP program <\/strong>to help drive traffic to your site, help you connect your blog to your LinkedIn profile, make it easy to manage your site&#8217;s comments from an iPhone, and even show you how to automatically promote your posts to your Facebook friends.<\/p>\n<p>Anil Dash explains why Six Apart opted for bailing out journalists &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program is not a silver bullet. It&#8217;s not going to singlehandedly preserve the career and income of every working journalist who has a job today. And frankly, the response has been so overwhelming that we won&#8217;t be able to accept every application at first. But what we can do is <strong>give journalists the tools to take control of their own presence online<\/strong>. This program will let a lot of the most eager writers and reporters learn the ropes about how to be more effective and successful on the web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are eligible, you can start by sending the link to your last piece for a newspaper, magazine or broadcast journalism venue to bailout@sixapart.com, and they will set you up for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Apart is telling laid off journalists &#8220;Your Tumblr, while clever, will not pay your bills.&#8221; and have launched the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}