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Revisiting the Ghosts of Auroras Past
“If we don’t meet again, your final assignment from me is perhaps the most important lesson you will learn in life. Go to your mother, father, brother and sisters, and tell them with all your heart how much you love … Continue reading
Posted in News Media, Popular Culture
Tagged Aurora, Batman, Dark Knight, Theater Shooting, Virginia Tech
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Why Most Brands Will Suck at Storytelling
“STORY” IS THE NEW “CONTENT.” As buzzwords go, story isn’t entirely bad — for years I’ve pushed clients to be storytellers. I’ve berated the descent of story into a furtive sea of “content,” stripping all emotion from human pursuits. So … Continue reading
Posted in News Media, PR & Marketing, social media
Tagged marketing, media, PR, social media, story, storytelling
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From Interest to Identity: Social Media and Local Journalism Will Lead Us Back
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
Posted in journalism, News Media, social media
Tagged community, journalism, news, Pinterest, social media
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Introducing “PEARL” – A Tool for Determining What People Will Pay for Online News
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
Posted in Innovation, journalism, News Media, social media
Tagged digital news, media, news, news value, online news, social media, The Daily
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Murdoch, The Daily, and Journalism as Art
“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
Posted in journalism, News Media, social media, Technology
Tagged journalism, media, news, Rupert Murdoch, social media, The Daily
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The WikiLeaks Saga: Transparency without Judgment is Gossip, not Journalism
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
Posted in journalism, News Media, Popular Culture
Tagged diplomacy, disclosure, government, journalism, media, news, news media, privacy, reporting, wikileaks
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Two out of Three is Best for Online Journalism
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
Posted in journalism, News Media
Tagged Associated Content, Demand Media, journalism, media, news media, onine news, online, Yahoo
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Ten Steps for Moving Journalism Forward
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
Posted in journalism, News Media
Tagged digital, journalism, media, news, Nieman Lab, reporters, social media, SPJ
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Newspapers: Making the Case for Free
(Originally posted at http://www.edelmandigital.com) The future of newspapers may well be in Colorado, once home to the late “gonzo journalism” provocateur Hunter S. Thomson and today home to no less that 12 free dailies. All of these papers are very … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, Journalism Next, News Media, social media
Tagged journalism, media, news, news media, newspapers, social media
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The Real Story behind “The Last Newspaper”
You don’t get to age 43 without experiencing some loss, usually the loss of hair and the ability to maintain that body you once knew in high school. It’s a familiar theme, even necessary. Hell, without loss there would never … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journalism, News Media, the last newspaper
Tagged journalism, media, news, newspaper, PR, public relations, publishing, social media, The Last Newspaper
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