Lene Bech Sillesen, Columbia Journalism Review, November 5, 2014
Justin Hall runs a blog that has landed him several jobs in journalism. While that statement doesn’t raise many eyebrows today, it was far out of the ordinary 20 years ago when Hall, a freelance writer, started Justin’s Links in 1994. Hall was 19, and the website was among the first of its kind, prompting the New York Times Magazine to title Hall “the founding father of personal bloggers” in 2004. […read more]