Thursday night, I was on ABC Radio (Curtis Sliwa Show, WABC — he’s the guy who started the Guardian Angels in NYC) talking about “textual harassment.” To prepare for my on-air appearance, I delved into the subject, interviewing friends, asking them if they had been “textually harassed.” And my assumption was correct. In most cases, […]
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How to use social media in the newsroom
I‘m working with the vaunted Poynter Institute to put together an online class for senior newspaper executives on how to use social media in the newsroom. One of our goals here at Socialmedia.biz is to cut across silos to get marketing people, journalists, businesses and strategists all talking to and learning from each other about […]
If newspapers disappear, will it matter?
Author and marketer extraordinaire Seth Godin has a provocative new post: When newspapers are gone, what will you miss? As regular readers know, I worked in print newsrooms for the better part of 20 years before transitioning to the online medium, and I've been harsh in my criticism of news organizations for not embracing the […]
Legendary magazine publisher Ziff Davis abandons print
It's worth noting this passing of an era, given that we'll see many more headlines like this in the years ahead. From Harry McCracken at Technologizer last week: Ziff-Davis: The Legendary Magazine Publisher Publishes Magazines No More. Excerpt: This news has more to do with dead trees than electrons, but I can’t resist: Ziff Davis […]
A new beginning for the media
James Poniewozik in Time magazine: An End, and a Beginning, for the Media. Excerpt: Like the car companies, individual media outlets will probably have to learn to be smaller. And they’ll need to see their new-media "problems" as part of the solution. Internet users don’t hate the media. In fact, when given the tools by […]