Category Archives: journalism

Journalists to Brands: Don’t Give Us “Content,” Tell Us Stories

Posted on July 6, 2012 by

ALTHOUGH I CAN’T TRACE THE ORIGIN with any certainty, I’m nevertheless pretty sure that the word “content” was first used by a marketer, not a by a journalist. Journalists are in the business of stories. Always have been – and … Continue reading →

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The Day the Scoop Died

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

LONG, LONG TIME AGO, I can still remember how the L.A. Times used to make me cry. Hardly a week would go by it seemed without them scooping me on some local story. I scooped them once in a while, … Continue reading →

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From Interest to Identity: Social Media and Local Journalism Will Lead Us Back

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Pinterest is the latest but not the first. For that title you need to go back to Compuserve and AOL 1.0, back even to the Usenet and BBS systems. You need to add blogs and communities like iVillage to the … Continue reading →

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Digital is a Platform

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Digital is not a “publication.” Digital is a “platform.” Publications are static, one-way, monotone. They live in comfort. Publishing is an act of control, and in that sense, it is little more than anachronism. You can publish via digital, but … Continue reading →

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In Search of the “News Particle”

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Scientists this month said they are a step closer to finding the Higgs boson, commonly referred to as the “God Particle,” which is widely believed to be the key building block of, well, the entire universe. The God Particle is … Continue reading →

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Introducing “PEARL” – A Tool for Determining What People Will Pay for Online News

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

The easy answer to how much consumers will pay for online news – if there is such a thing as an easy answer – is “they’ll pay what it’s worth.” Of course that’s’ the problem: In a world where free … Continue reading →

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Murdoch, The Daily, and Journalism as Art

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

“I do certainly see the day when more people will be buying their newspapers on portable reading panels than on crushed trees. Then we’re going to have no paper, no printing plants, no unions. It’s going to be great.” — … Continue reading →

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The WikiLeaks Saga: Transparency without Judgment is Gossip, not Journalism

Posted on November 29, 2010 by

Everyone is talking about the WikiLeaks disclosure of confidential diplomatic cables revealing the oft prickly relationship nations have with each other. That this comes as a shock is almost as shocking as the messages themselves, which, stripped of the Bond/Bourne … Continue reading →

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Two out of Three is Best for Online Journalism

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

You all know the rule. No, not the Golden Rule, which of course is never speak to John Hamm unless Hamm speaks to you first, no matter how handsome and inviting he looks. Seriously, Hamm is like Bieber for MILFs. … Continue reading →

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Ten Steps for Moving Journalism Forward

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has a problem — it's still a "society" (the oldest of its kind), but the terms "professional" and "journalist" are not what they used to be. Digital media and bottom-up news models have forced … Continue reading →

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