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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A Maine legislator has shot back in the pendng defamation lawsuit against local writer Lance Dutson, calling for an investigation of the state agency involved and suspension of the state’s contract with New York ad agency Warren Kremer Paino Advertising (WKP). The ad firm filed the multi-million dollar lawsuit against Dutson, who publishes the Maine…
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Those of you who follow Terry Heaton’s Pomo Blog already know that Terry’s wife, Allie, died this week. Her death at 41 was sudden, unexpected, and of course heartbreaking beyond words to Terry, her husband of only 18 months. Terry’s post about his beloved wife is touching and sincere, as one might expect. But what…
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At first glance, The Naples (Fla.) Daily News web site looks like any other newspaper site: Articles include a local twist to a national story on declining home sales; a car crash that killed a local resident; and a cold front moving into the sunny Gulf Coast enclave of 20,000 retirees and not-so-idle rich. But…
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Want to own your own online newspaper? Bob Leonard, CEO of Out2 Media Group, may have a deal for you. He will set you up with a “hyper-local” local online presence. He will train you to be a newspaperman and a businessman. And he wants your reporters to get paid. Leonard believes all media is…
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For a profession where the practioners’ names are connected to every story, journalism is a bed of insecurity stuffed with pathos, where journalists bemoan their lot in life as if the act was as essential as breathing. Forget that a journalist’s job is so important that it is written into the U.S. Constitution, the question…
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If the web is alive, as Newsweek proclaims, then conversation is the oxygen that makes it so. But conversation also has a nasty habit of making you think, and a recent comment from John Cass of Backbone Media has had me thinking to the point of obsession, like that song you can’t seem to get…
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If the web is alive, as Newsweek proclaims, then conversation is the oxygen that makes it so. But conversation also has a nasty habit of making you think, and a recent comment from John Cass of Backbone Media has had me thinking to the point of obsession, like that song you can’t seem to get…
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Journalism used to have icons, larger-than-life figures that blasted through television screens and tore through newsprint like banshees. They went on missions not assignments, were driven by purpose instead of paychecks, and remained dead serious when someone referred to their roles as fulfilling a public trust. Those days – those journalists – are gone. But…