Free TypePad Pro blogs for qualified Journalists

If you are a journalist, or you know of a journalist who is looking to get started in blogging, our hosting company, Six Apart, is offering free TypePad Pro accounts for journalists. Proof of "journalismness" is required to qualify for the free accounts.

The service costs $15 per month for everybody else, and it is the best bang for the buck tier in terms of blogging features and flexibility. This program morphed out of their "bailout program" for journalists suffering from the economic downturn in the newspaper industry.

And it's no secret, if you have been regularly reading the Imaging Insider and PDN Pulse, you have seen, on a weekly basis, news of more and more newspaper layoffs and closings.