punish your biggest fans
A memo from the top brass at the New York Times was sent to employees about the plan to charge for online content at nytimes.com… Today we are announcing that we will be introducing a paid model for...
View Articleyou missed it
If your only source of news is national media, you may not realize that a U.S. city was heavily damaged this weekend. Yes, the Gulf oil disaster should be the top story and the Times Square car bomb...
View Articlecalled it
Yesterday, in my post about the media and the Nashville floods, I suggested that maybe the lack of national media attention was due to the lag between the tuned-in minority and the traditional media....
View Articlejust a tweet
It should be obvious to anyone by now, but real time publishing is powerful. It can also be dangerously chaotic and unreliable. There’s a wonderful example of it today with the @AP twitter hack. A...
View Articlecords
Last week, every hipster and useless list website on the web were raving on how you could wrap cords around a MacBook brick. As the kids say, the meme went viral. This week, the damage control has...
View Articleembedded and right
A NYU journalism student has written an “embedded report” about Quarter lifers / GenY’s outlook on journalism and online media for the PBS Mediashift blog. In the online journalism class that I teach,...
View Articlezero tolerance social media
For the last couple of months, I’ve been on the receiving end of Peter Shankman’s thrice daily HARO email blast. I think it’s great — on many levels. I have functioned as a source for a few reporters...
View Articleupdate on nyu journalism mediashift
I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about an NYU student who wrote a post about the online knoweldge of GenY in her journalism class. From communicating with Alana, I knew there would be a follow-up...
View Articlestories
So over the past two years gas prices rose about $2/gallon from what they were. Supply and demand? That can’t be causing it. The oil companies were sticking it to us. Let’s start a chain email to not...
View Articleconnecting the dots
Another printed newspaper went away today and with typical media self-absorption, the paper reported their own obituary with an in-depth report complete with a full page front page farewell. This death...
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