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Journalism Needs to Punch Back
When the PR consultants start dictating news coverage – everyone loses. Even the PR consultants and the brands they represent. That’s because the value of journalism is its objectivity. If journalism...
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Here Comes Brandtainment
One of the reasons why social media exploded was the concept of brands having direct communications with their customers. Especially around news. In the old days, brands wrote press releases, posted...
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The Death of the Deadline
One of the enormous changes in journalism during the “internet age” has been the loss of the deadline. The impact of this demise has been significant, but rarely discussed. Yet it may be one of the...
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Consider the Source
We have a humorous saying at the office: “It must be true. I read it on the Internet.” The reason this saying is so damn amusing is because, well, the Internet lies a lot. And the problem is that lots...
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CNET & the Myth of Impartial Journalism
No one loves journalism as much as journalists. Unfortunately this love affair with their own profession – and the imagined pedestal they place it upon – makes them blind to the faults that everyone...
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Won’t Get Fooled Again (Except the Next Time)
CBS News. Sports Illustrated. The New York Times. ESPN. The New York Post. The Los Angeles Times. All of them – and many, many more media outlets – fooled by a terrible and cruel hoax that could...
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BTW – Journalism Continues to Collapse
Remember 2009? The year that I like to call “The Great Media Collapse.” Layoffs galore. Newspapers folding. Magazines selling for peanuts (remember the $5 million fire sale for BusinessWeek?). 2009...
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Will Anyone Ever Pay for Journalism Again?
Never giveaway a product if you have to sell it to stay in business. Sounds like a no-brainer doesn’t it? Because guess what happens when no one wants to buy your product anymore? You go out of...
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Journalism’s Addiction: In Love with Journalists
The practice of journalists interviewing journalists has become a pet peeve of mine. So I was irked recently when listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and the host introduced a story about the Egypt...
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3 Ideas for the New Boston Globe Owners
The Boston Globe is the largest newspaper in New England. The powerhouse regional daily newspaper, which still sets the agenda for daily discourse in Boston and Massachusetts. But it has been dying...
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Has Journalism Become Elitist?
The answer, unfortunately, might be yes. At one point, only a couple of decades ago, newsrooms were filled with reporters culled from the ranks of blue-collar and working class families. When I started...
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How to be a Paperboy
Remember the neighborhood paperboy? Every morning (or afternoon) he mounted his bicycle with his trusty his canvass shoulder bag and hand delivered the daily newspaper to dozens, even of hundreds of...
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3 Ways to Save Journalism from Extinction
Let this statistic sink in for a moment. Total number of journalists in the U.S.: 40,000 Total number of Google employees: 54,000 Google was founded in 1998. Journalism may have died around the same...
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Marketing is the New Journalism
And journalism is the new marketing. For better or worse, we are moving rapidly into a state of brand-produced journalism. It’s happening on two fronts: Sponsored Content and Brand Publishing...
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Google Declares Itself Grand Protector of Journalism
Likely news organizations don’t know whether to scream or to laugh. Google – one of the biggest culprits in the downfall of newspapers and magazines – preaching to them about “journalistic values.”...
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This Blog Post is Only Worth $49
Sometimes you wonder if the Internet has ruined everything. Case in point: Writing. Writing as most of us know has a long and distinguished history. We celebrate great novelists, short story writers,...
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Be the News
Stop pitching news stories to the media. Seriously. Instead break your own news. Tell your own story. Take your own photographs. Create your own graphics. Produce your own video. Research your own...
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Technology Can’t Replace Journalism
Fast Company recently published a story about a Vice reporter uses Google Glass to report on demonstrations in the Middle East and the United States. The article was a glowing tribute to the benefits...
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The Amazon Post or Why Print Was Already Dead
One of my PR colleagues had this reaction to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, buying the Washington Post. “This really is the end of an era for print media as we know it.” My reaction? Where have...
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Dear Mr. Bezos: Don’t Listen to the Journalists
An open letter by Washington Post columnist by Gene Weingarten called “Open Letter to Jeff Bezos” is grabbing a lot of attention on industry blogs and in social media circles in the wake of the Post‘s...
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