The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin has just published a Portuguese-language edition of the e-book How to Write for the Web, written by Colombian journalist Guillermo Franco and translated by Brazilian journalist Marcelo Soares.

The e-book can be downloaded in PDF format in Portuguese and Spanish for free from the Knight Center’s website: http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/como_web.php. Since its publication in December 2008, the Spanish-language edition of the book has been downloaded almost 13,000 times.

How to Write for the Web is the second skills guide for journalists that the Knight Center has published. In December 2007, the Knight Center launched electronic Spanish and Portuguese editions of the e-book Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive, A digital literacy guide for the information age, written by U.S. journalist Mark Briggs.

Source: http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/knightcenternews_article.php?page=9729