What’s on the Bookshelf: Writing for an Audience

Since I returned to Albany in September, my coworkers at the paper and I have had several discussions about what it means to write for an audience. Any given day, we get phone calls with people telling us to go to hell (I’ve had two in the past week on my voice mail) for not answering the phone, telling the paper it sucks because they didn’t like the latest editorial and generally using inappropriate language.

Sadly, this type of behavior isn’t reserved for journalist. I have lots of author fr...