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October 20th, 2008 Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Top tips for journalists

Linking: Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles has three rules for when links should be used in an article: for attributing sources, providing context and to explain the inexplicable. Here's a link to Niles' full article on linking in articles. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

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