Everyone loves the idea of publishing an opinion piece or letter to the editor in The New York Times or seeing their CEO's name in The Washington Post. Fewer people love the part where an editor says "no thanks" — or, more often, says nothing at all. There's no secret formula for getting opinion pieces…

The History of Blogging Before social media, there was the blog. In the early days of the internet, a "blog", short for weblog,  was barely more than a personal online diary. Its aesthetics were unappealing, like the digital equivalent of your childhood drawings, but at the time they were revolutionary. People now had an outlet…