An interesting story in the Washington Post about how Twitter may affect the image of the NFL.
Category Archives: New Media
CJR Ponders “News in the Link Economy”
July 16, 2009 – 9:13 am
“What’s a fair share in the age of Google?” … that’s what Peter Osnos explores in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review subtitled “How to think about news in the link economy.” Fittingly, we are linking to it.
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YouTube’s New Citizen Journalist Resource
July 2, 2009 – 9:19 am
If you are an aspiring citizen journalist, YouTube wants to help. It now has what it calls its Reporter’s Center, “helping you report the news.” The center encompasses videos by a variety of journalists, either well-known or with well-known organizations…
Bitter Brews for Coffee Chain’s Brand Image
June 1, 2009 – 2:06 pm
Starbucks’ once-hallowed brand image continues to be under attack. McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, and other competitors are aggressively pushing the quality and lower price of their coffee. Consumers are cutting back on expensive lattes due to the economy. And now Starbucks…
Pew Measures Seismic Shift in Classifieds
May 26, 2009 – 3:24 pm
It goes without saying that the advent of free online classified sites have whacked a huge hole in newspaper revenues … but a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet and American Life Project has a lot of…
It’s Official: Journalist Workload is Increasing
April 6, 2009 – 12:19 pm
Most journalists say their workloads have increased in the past year, and the need to provide online content in addition to their traditional work is the main reason. That’s one of the findings in the 2009 PR Week/PR Newswire Media…
Old & New Media Views at Yale
March 27, 2009 – 1:40 pm
Some interesting comments by a former New York Times reporter and the founder of the Huffington Post at a get-together at Yale University, as reported by the Yale Daily News. Thirty-year NYT veteran Linda Greenhouse, who has won the Pulitzer…
The Anonymous Source
March 25, 2009 – 2:15 pm
Blogger Vivian Paige faced an interesting issue recently, when she received an anonymous letter raising concerns about goings-on, apparently political in nature, in her city of Norfolk, Virginia. Vivian did some investigating and the matter seemed to check out. Still,…
A Newspaper’s New Identity
March 20, 2009 – 11:58 am
An interesting commentary on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s new identity as an online-only news organization is on Tech News World today.
Goldman EVP on Social Media and Car Dealers
March 13, 2009 – 1:47 pm
Web 2.0. is so important to the auto industry that car dealers should incorporate social media rules in their employee handbooks. That’s the opinion of Goldman & Associates EVP Audrey Knoth, who recently guest-authored an article on the topic for…