(Via Politico)A-list blogger and digital thought leader Chris Brogan took the long President’s Day weekend to pen a post titled “The Future of Media.”Being one of his nearly 175K followers on Twitter, I was drawn to the post based on a single tweet of his. (Don’t believe the notion that Twitter is killing the blogosphere.…… Continue reading Media & Journalism
Category: journalism
Herb Schmertz & The Huffington Post
This blog periodically looks at the immeasurable contributions an impartial media make in a democratic society, i.e., trained journalists who ferret out and expose untruths and…spin. Maybe it was my PR work over the years for two news organizations, The Associated Press and The New York Times, that fortified my position.I’ll never forget standing alongside…… Continue reading Herb Schmertz & The Huffington Post
Control Nut
Nearly five years ago, the head of one of the world’s largest PR firms turned the communications world on its ear by (presciently) declaring that we’ve entered an age when companies have the capacity to “bypass the media” filter to deliver their messages directly to their constituents. Journalists decried this seemingly pretentious idea as heresy…… Continue reading Control Nut
Friday’s Video Views
This week’s edition of Video Views features David Pogue crooning about his iPhone, a clip on one remedy to bolster print newspaper readership, USA Today’s Jon Swartz at his first SXSWi conference, and a fresh old look at unintended acceleration.Here’s a sobering perspective of newspaper demographics and a potential remedy for preserving readership. (HT @steveouting)…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Friday’s Video Views
This week’s edition of “Video Views” features the founders of Google and Mashable, a Facebook privacy tour, one company’s vision for the magazine stand of the future, and yet another Chatroulette clip. Enjoy.Mashable founder Pete Cashmore on curation as journalism, a term he’d prefer to lose given its varied (and “loaded”) meanings (via emediavitals).Facebook has…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Drudge-Driven News
During a recent Publicity Club of New York media panel, I brought up the downside of real-time news, citing Silicon Valley Insider’s Henry Blodgett’s now-famous faux pas in which he broke the “story” of a supposed Steve Jobs heart attack. The report was wrong…as further evidenced by Mr. Jobs’ star turn in a tux at…… Continue reading Drudge-Driven News
Twenty-Ten Soothsaying
OK I couldn’t resist jumping on the new year’s list-making bandwagon.Along with Brian Solis’s 2009 retrospective of the most influential Twitter conversations (via Klout), Robert Scoble’s top ten tech Twitterers, Scott Monty’s social media takes, Martin Langeveld’s compilation of media forecasts, and John Cass’s round-up of PR (I mean “engagement marketing”) predictions, among myriad others,…… Continue reading Twenty-Ten Soothsaying
PR Insurance
Paul Bradshaw, writing today for Poynter Online, raises an important issue that’s as old as, well, the age of citizen-journalists, i.e., less than 10 years: “In the E-mail Era, Who Owns the Interview?”I also posted on this journalistic conundrum in August 2005 following Mark Cuban’s open dust-up with The New York Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin.You…… Continue reading PR Insurance
Good Journalism and PR
At the gym this morning, I happened to catch a CNN promo for its Campbell Brown climate segment: “Climate Conspiracy? — which called the very science behind global warming into question. Huh? Sweeps month was last month, wasn’t it?It’s clear that CNN, and most of the MSM, have fallen prey to a still-unknown partisan who…… Continue reading Good Journalism and PR
Small and Big Screens…
I had the good fortune to attend the thought-provoking “Future of Media” panel, hosted by MediaPost and sponsored by AOL and others, in New York City last week as part of Advertising Week.Featured (from left to right) were: Mark Cuban (HD Net, Dallas Mavs), Vivien Schiller (NPR), Bob Garfield (Ad Age, NPR), Martha Stewart, Reid…… Continue reading Small and Big Screens…