I've heard that Steemit really can help posts get top positions on google search. So giving the SEO "game" a second thought can really make a difference in the amount of exposure. This is a good reason many journalists should join Steemit. If not for the rewards, then for better positions on Google.
Also, no censorship. That's a thing for the first time in social media. After all "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
Keep up the good work!
Although it was a big deal for me not publishing on my own domains because they have years of name recognition built up, it was a really fantastic feeling to simply know that my post/websites wouldn't go down, and that the content couldn't be tampered with. So yes, the no-censorship is definitely a huge plus for this platform and a major reason why I'm encouraging everyone I know who is being punished by corporate platforms to get to Steemit ASAP!!
Big Smile Here! YES!!! Way To Go!!!! So happy to see this happening! I was a journalist in Canada over a decade ago and I was hit with a SLAPP for exposing corruption in the Department of Indian Affairs and the Tribal Governments. The band (financed by the DIA) offered to stop pursuing the lawsuit so long as the CanWest Media chain just stopped publishing my work. I was put on a blacklist and never published since then. The media in Canada is pretty tight knit, controlled and incestuous. Or... Whores as I like to call them. This is why Snowden and Assange were such a big deal to me when the news of their work came out... and it's also why Steemit is a huge deal to me. I've finally felt like for the first time that we may actually have a way out of the censorship and the blacklisting and the control of government run media... So happy to see the progress you are making. Whatever I can do to help -- please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Wow, amazing. Thank you so much for reaching out. I am so proud that people like you act on principle rather than for career. Yes Steemit appears to be the platform we have all been waiting for - democratising information, censorship-resistant, and no timeline manipulation. I'm loving it so far. Thank you so much for following my work!!!