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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Obama Urged to Trust the Media, Hold Weekly Press Conferences David Gergen, Joe Lockhart and others have some sagacious media advice for President-elect Obama: "Don't try to use the press. Understand the value of the press to informing the public." - November 14, 2008
Report from the Web 2.0 Summit: Time to Make Big Bets Few would disagree that the impending Obama administration marks the arrival of World 2.0, nor that social media will be a dominant force in the way our nation leads and solves problems across industries, including (and especially!) media coverage. - November 11, 2008
Can Young Journalists Cope With An Uncertain Future? One friend says: "Everyone jokes, covering up real fears about how we'll all be laid off from old-school papers and about how professional online news won't actually take off like we hope it will." - October 23, 2008
Why Media Can't See the Trees for the ACORNs
The media attention granted the right-wing attacks on ACORN begs the question: Why does it seem to be a greater sin to be suspected of voter registration mistakes than to publicly engage in voter suppression efforts?- October 15, 2008
'Scoring' The Debate -- If It Ever Happens On the eve of the Obama-McCain debate (or will it be Obama-Empty Chair?), a veteran reporter who survived presidential campaigns proposes that we score battle much like a football game -- complete with penalty flags.- September 25, 2008
GOP Attacks on Community Organizers Provoke Media Backlash Unwittingly, the attacks have helped to introduce Americans to the relatively invisible work of the organizers who get paid to help millions of people improve their families and communities through grassroots activism.- September 18, 2008
Delivering Propaganda, As If It is Toothpaste Dozens of local newspapers -- from Altoona to Las Vegas and selected regional editions of the New York Times) -- have been paid to distribute a film designed to spread fear about our national security.- September 13, 2008
Study Probes: How to Reach Young Readers News outlets have a unique opportunity to use the enthusiasm for this presidential battle as an entry point for members of the "millennial" generation to develop a substantive news consumption habit, according to a new study by Northwestern University's Media Management Center.- September 09, 2008
Young Readers Redefine 'News' -- But Is it Really News? Entertainment and conversation (in person or via social media) may be entry points to news, but they do not replace fact-driven, straightforward reporting.- September 03, 2008
That Pew Study Doesn't Tell Whole Story on Younger Readers Defenders of the millennial generation's civic engagement had some explaining to do last week after a recent Pew study indicated that a third of us don't seek out any news on a typical day, including online media.- August 25, 2008
Young Journos and The Social Contract 2.0 The third installment of our new interactive feature on the new "New Journalism" and where it is headed. - August 20, 2008
Young Journos Do Have a Future -- If They Are Nimble The second offering in our new 'New Journalism' feature: Managing one's own expectations about career development is tricky right now, but the news industry's challenges are never so acute as when you have to explain them to hopeful, idealistic student journalists. - August 12, 2008
Target Obama: Why The Press Must Fact-Check Campaign Claims What is the responsibility of reporters, editors and publishers when a candidate is the target of a campaign of attack and personal destruction employing the systematic use of lies, smears, innuendo and character assassination?- August 11, 2008
An Investigative Reporter's Plea Even as newspapers shed staff reporters, few news organizations are doing anything to help freelance or investigative reporters. They promise grants and computer assistance, but little help is forthcoming.- July 30, 2008
Stop Worrying About 'Traffic,' and Start Capturing Leads Rather than "driving traffic," you can take steps to focus on getting motivated prospects and valuable customers to visit your Web sites and convert them into qualified sales leads. All it takes is some re-framing of your objectives.- July 11, 2008
Letter to a Former AP Colleague -- Now a Marine Captain in Iraq What did that OCS commandant ask you? Something like, "You were in the Associated Press? Why did you join the Marines?" Your answer, I recall, was, "Sir, this Marine would rather make history than write about it!"- July 06, 2008
Response to Outing: On Demise of 'Hyperlocal' Backfence I'm concerned that Steve Outing's latest E&P column about hyperlocal sites paints an inaccurate picture of why Backfence failed, and more importantly, might discourage badly needed experimentation in new models for hyperlocal coverage, especially user-generated hyperlocal content.- July 02, 2008
No Editorial Writing Pulitzer? One Entrant Still Wants Explanation Sure, I didn't win the Editorial Writing award at this year's Pulitzers. But then again, neither did anyone else, even some very deserving candidates. But why? A better explanation might have been given than -- well, no explanation. - July 01, 2008
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