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Making Newspapers Matter: The Journey Back to Brand

(Note: This is the first in an occasional series of posts about newspapers, their loss of “voice” and relevance, and how they can regain both. You can find these posts under the category “Journalism Next.”) I read a newspaper this morning. Stop the presses. My primary computer is being repaired so I don’t have accessContinue reading “Making Newspapers Matter: The Journey Back to Brand”

PR and Journalism Bloggers in the “Echo Chamber”

I like to think that my colleagues and peers are smarter than me, work harder than me, and with the exception of Craig Newmark and any L.A. Weekly reporter, are infinitely better looking than me (I tried to post my photo but TypePad kept replacing it with a picture of an engorged Ferret, which boreContinue reading “PR and Journalism Bloggers in the “Echo Chamber””

PR and Journalism Bloggers in the “Echo Chamber”

Making “Journalist Citizens” – Journalists, Institutions Should Heed Gillmor’s Call for Fostering Citizen Media

Dan Gillmor, one of citizen journalism’s “founding fathers,” is again breaking new ground by starting a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. He says the Center’s goals “are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism,” as well as to “foster a truly informed citizenry.” TheseContinue reading “Making “Journalist Citizens” – Journalists, Institutions Should Heed Gillmor’s Call for Fostering Citizen Media”

“Journalism Hope” Launches With a Message For Us All

A while back I published the Journalist’s Creed, written in 1907 by Walter Williams, the first dean of the Missouri School of Journalism. It begins with the sentence “I believe in the profession of journalism.” I do, and always have, just as I believe in the profession of public relations when it is practiced withContinue reading ““Journalism Hope” Launches With a Message For Us All”

2006: Year of The Vanishing Blogger

The First Age of blogging – the age of novelty – is coming to an end. It was fun, wasn’t it? The bloggers who blogged about blogging, the apoplectic glee over the beta releases of innocuous software tools, the autoerotic joy of being an “A-lister.” The professional communicators who urged their peers to start blogging,Continue reading “2006: Year of The Vanishing Blogger”

Journalism Next: The Three (or Four) Branches of the New News Media

The online world – for all its vastness, connectivity and influence – is insulated. That’s not a problem for most people, considering that the online world often makes more sense. But unlike your typical EverQuest player, I have to live in the real world, too. I was in the real world over the weekend –Continue reading “Journalism Next: The Three (or Four) Branches of the New News Media”

Deep Throat is Dead – Long Live Communal Journalism

Deep Throat, the most famous informant since Judas, is once again making headlines. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who brought the Watergate scandal to light – and in doing so helped fill the nation’s journalism schools with aspiring investigative reporters, myself included – recently donated their story notes to aContinue reading “Deep Throat is Dead – Long Live Communal Journalism”