When I heard a week or so ago that The New York Times was prepping a daily video newscast, I wasn’t expecting much. Perhaps a talking head reading headlines from a teleprompter with some still images or graphics peppered in to make the point.I knew not to expect globe-trotting TV news producers and their ENG…… Continue reading Into the Newsroom
Category: New York Times
Wolff Trap
You gotta love Michael Wolff’s visceral reaction to the recent overture from the PR team for MySpace. He was so inspired, he crafted a Newser post titled: MySpace Is Back! Really! Totally! Meet Jason and Mike! Wanna Interview Them?The headline essentially captures Mr. Wolff’s (and others’) intractable notion that MySpace is washed up, and that…… Continue reading Wolff Trap
Friday’s Video Views
As mentioned in last Friday’s post, the Web has so many entertaining and edifying videos for PR types, it would be a shame not to see some of them surface. And what better place? Here are three more, as part of an evolving weekly feature, Friday’s Video Views.So what are the ingredients for a viral…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Bye Bye Bobby
A few friends sent me Jim Barron’s New York Times “City Room” piece on PR man Bobby Zarem’s decision to leave his adopted city for his boyhood home of Savannah, Georgia. And why should I care? Well, other than Elaine’s losing its most famous patron (and promoter), and the city, its most original (and supportive)…… Continue reading Bye Bye Bobby
Future of Media
On Wednesday, I expect to learn the future of media. The day begins with Media Magazine’s Future of Media Forum or “It’s Not What it Used to Be.”At The Times Center in NYC, Wired’s Chris Anderson will take these and other media movers and shakers through their paces: Mark Cuban, Martha Stewart, NPR’s Vivien Schiller,…… Continue reading Future of Media
NewsCore
Did you ever have a client ask you to contact an AP reporter to learn which news outlets picked up a story in which the client company was featured? If you are asked, politely decline and offer instead to use some of the off-the shelf monitoring tools, starting with Google News, that scrape and index…… Continue reading NewsCore
Wrong Number
A day doesn’t go by without the financial services or pharmaceutical industry taking it on the chin. Both were summarily called to the carpet this week for their profligate behavior — Wall Street for bonuses and big pharma re: drug cost givebacks.Yet relative scant attention is given to the one industry whose transgressions may even…… Continue reading Wrong Number
Mad as Hell: Who’re Ya Gonna Tell?
Much has transpired since last year’s historic U.S. Presidential elections. The dramatic real-time run-up to November 4 kept many of us totally tethered to our digital news screens.Since then, that frenetic and insatiable state of political engagement has pretty much dissipated…until last week.The prospect of a Twitter/SMS/blog-fueled Presidential election to overthrow the Holocaust-denying, WMD-seeking, woman-oppressing,…… Continue reading Mad as Hell: Who’re Ya Gonna Tell?
Stress Reduction
The lead op-ed in today’s New York Times features U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner explaining in his own words the rationale and machinations behind the bank stress tests whose results will pop big time later today.Already, the Treasury Dept. selectively leaked some of the test’s more tantalizing tidbits in an effort to temper the anticipated…… Continue reading Stress Reduction
Why Newspapers Matter
In the wake of yesterday’s news that The New York Times had captured five Pulitzer Prizes, bringing its total to 101 — more than any other news organization — executive editor Bill Keller offered the following: “It comes in a year when a lot of newspapers are on the ropes, it is a reminder of…… Continue reading Why Newspapers Matter