Gary Goldhammer –author and storyteller.
Content strategist, PR practitioner and marketer | digital and social media innovator | writer and author
Category: News Media
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I got a call from the University of Missouri Journalism School, my alma mater, reminding me of the 100th anniversary celebration this year. Founded in 1908, Missouri was the world’s first journalism school and is still regarded as one of the best. Yet while overall it was a great first hundred years for American journalism,…
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“Hey Gary: After a year of unanswered emails to the editor of the Portland, Maine, Press Herald pleading for better local reporting and editing…I started a blog a month ago…” T.C. Munjoy, Pressing the Herald (http://pressingtheherald.blogspot.com/) ONE MORE BLOG IN THE WORLD is not the end of traditional journalism. Even the target of Mr. Munjoy’s…
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As a former newspaper reporter, I never had much respect for television news. More style than substance, more sound bite than serious, TV journalism was media junk food. I preferred a good steak and still do. There were exceptions – Walter Cronkite, Jim Lehrer and, going way back, Ed Murrow (though he served up his…
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AS BOTH A CHILD OF and practitioner in the modern “we’ve got you surrounded” age of media, nothing should surprise me. I’m used to message bombardment, from traditional sources like television and radio to more non-traditional sources like shopping cart handles, airport security trays and strategically placed tattoos. Even O.J. Simpson getting arrested again isn’t…
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"He was trying to teach his two young daughters not to be afraid to buy a newspaper in America." – Peter Katz, Vietnam veteran and small business owner in Little Saigon, Orange County, Calif. We forget – some of us – that while we lament the decline of news readership or embrace technology and prepare…
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So here’s where we stand in the world of journalism: A fake news organization sends a fake reporter to cover a real war A real local television station in Texas hires a fake anchorwoman as part of a reality TV show A real American newspaper is bought by an Australian media magnate, who also owns…
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Newspaper reporter – those two words, inexorably linked in my consciousness, once formed the basis for my identity. TV reporters stared into cameras, radio reporters spoke into microphones. I communicated with a keyboard, producing stories that lived in words and only in words. Nothing more was expected of me. Nothing more was possible. That’s all…
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"If you invest more in the newsroom, do you make more money? The answer is yes. If you lower the amount of money spent in the newsroom, then pretty soon the news product becomes so bad that you begin to lose money." — Esther Thorson, Director of Research, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute It’s been…