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Tim Porter and Tom Murphy: The Smartest-Thinking Men in Blog Land

I live my life with few absolutes – making time to read with my daughter, watching every second of American Idol, and picking up The New Yorker when in airports to make myself look smart on business trips, even though I’d much rather read People. In the world of blogs, I have two “absolutes.” TimContinue reading “Tim Porter and Tom Murphy: The Smartest-Thinking Men in Blog Land”

Some Journalists Still Waiting to be ‘Free at Last’

Nosir Zokirov, a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Uzbek Service in Uzbekistan, is serving a six-month prison term for allegedly insulting a security officer. According to Radio Free Europe, Zokirov was tried without defense counsel or examination of witnesses. Ching Cheong, chief correspondent for China at Singapore daily newspaper The Straits Times, was arrestedContinue reading “Some Journalists Still Waiting to be ‘Free at Last’”

Some Journalists Still Waiting to be ‘Free at Last’

PR to the Rescue: Ten Slogans to Save Newspapers

Rarely a day goes by when someone isn’t bellyaching about newspapers and their collision course with the recycling heap of history. I believe, as PR and marketing people, we need to step in and help our ink-stained brothers and sisters of the Fourth Estate (which if it were an actual estate would be in foreclosureContinue reading “PR to the Rescue: Ten Slogans to Save Newspapers”

PR to the Rescue: Ten Slogans to Save Newspapers

Slow Down, You Move to Fast, You’ve Got to Make the Credibility Last

All parents say that their kids grow up too fast. This isn’t true, of course. Parents live too fast, which is why one day your daughter is riding in the car seat and the next day she’s asking you for the keys. I was going to resolve to slow down in 2006, which if youContinue reading “Slow Down, You Move to Fast, You’ve Got to Make the Credibility Last”

Making “Journalist Citizens” – Journalists, Institutions Should Heed Gillmor’s Call for Fostering Citizen Media

Dan Gillmor, one of citizen journalism’s “founding fathers,” is again breaking new ground by starting a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. He says the Center’s goals “are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism,” as well as to “foster a truly informed citizenry.” TheseContinue reading “Making “Journalist Citizens” – Journalists, Institutions Should Heed Gillmor’s Call for Fostering Citizen Media”

“Journalism Hope” Launches With a Message For Us All

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 withContinue reading ““Journalism Hope” Launches With a Message For Us All”

Washington Post Reporter Terry Neal Goes Back From the Future

With impending doom hanging over print newsrooms like the boulder preparing once again to chase Sisyphus down the hill, reporters should be praying for online salvation, right? Not so at the Washington Post (registration required), where online “Talking Points” columnist Terry Neal is leaving his web-only world to become the paper’s Maryland local government andContinue reading “Washington Post Reporter Terry Neal Goes Back From the Future”

2006: Year of The Vanishing Blogger

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,Continue reading “2006: Year of The Vanishing Blogger”