Gary Goldhammer –author and storyteller.
Content strategist, PR practitioner and marketer | digital and social media innovator | writer and author
Category: Journalism Next
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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 with…
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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,…
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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 –…
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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 a…