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Jun 16, 2009
Find your voice, find your following on Twitter
The rise of Twitter continues to amaze the skeptics. In just two short years, it has become one of the […]
Jun 11, 2009
Christian Science Monitor, Seattle PI drop print, keep readers
The familiar rustle of paper or hands ink-stained with newsprint is becoming a thing of the past, while the news […]
Jun 8, 2009
Eyewitness News is now on channel 4 AND channel 5
Driven by the recession, competing local television stations are beginning to do the once unthinkable: sharing their video and even […]
Jun 5, 2009
Vocus journalists panel: Not all media telling the same story
At the 2009 Vocus Users Conference, a panel of three journalists and one moderator were called upon to answer some […]
Jun 4, 2009
Obama's campaign manager: Today’s strategies target local, social media
David Plouffe (pictured) speaks as clearly and measured as the current president whose campaign he helped to run. At a […]
Jun 2, 2009
Staying afloat: Novice and experienced journalists fighting to survive
As newspapers around the nation cut costs or close, thousands of journalists are losing their livelihoods. Young people entering the […]
May 29, 2009
Paint pictures with sound and you’re on the radio
The crackling of the house fire. The sirens blaring. Firemen yelling. When radio reporter Kyle Johnson had sounds that evoked […]
May 26, 2009
Disappearing bureaus, disappearing sections at New York Times
On Friday, the New York Times announced the demise of several local news sections, which begs the question – is […]
May 22, 2009
Rising from the ashes: Rebirth of locally-owned weeklies given the corporate axe
When editor Bill Doak was told several months ago that the East Hartford Gazette in Connecticut was printing its last […]
May 19, 2009
More radio cuts, but weekend programming remains golden
I was preparing to blog about the continued programming impact of January’s 1,850 Clear Channel layoffs. Now, another 590 full-time […]
May 14, 2009
Do weather and traffic people ever cover stories?
The on-air time of TV weather and traffic talent is so tightly structured that they seem unapproachable, unlikely to ever […]
May 12, 2009
Just how many journalists will flock to those newspaper exits?
While tighter budgets, dropping ad revenues and a dramatically changing industry lay waste to newsrooms, journalists are departing for different […]
May 8, 2009
The reshaping of magazine monoliths
It is clear that money alone will not save magazines. Business decisions need to be prudent, and based in reality […]
May 5, 2009
Will old-school thinking save Newsweek?
I remember when my bespectacled and pedantic college English professor launched a tirade against the quality of modern publications, with […]
May 4, 2009
Yesterday’s magazine editors: Where have they all gone?
The magazine I used to work for was bought out by another, bigger publishing company and merged into one of […]
