From the August issue of Wired magazine: Ace a press interview. Sally Stewart, communications consultant and author of Media Training 101, offers some pointers on how not to come off like an idiot when you’re talking to a journalist. 1. Know what you’re talking about and to whom you’re saying it. Jot down a few […]
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Images and videos of the bridge collapse
A woman whose husband was killed in Wednesday’s bridge collapse (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Here’s some coverage of the tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Mainstream media certainly did a better job than citizen media on this one, though the first-person accounts were harrowing. Disappointing, though, that I didn’t see a single traditional news organization offer video […]
Jarvis: 3 ethics the news media can learn from bloggers
Blogger-Prof Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine is on tonight’s NewsHour on PBS, interviewed as part of a discussion about the mix of facts of opinion in the media today, and whether that’s a good thing or not. Jeff offers up “three ethics” that the news media can learn from bloggers: (1) The ethic of corrections: Be […]
Daniel Weintraub on transparency
Not long ago I appeared on a panel at UC Berkeley with Daniel Weintraub, who writes the California Insider political blog for the Sacramento Bee and a syndicated column on California politics. He’s well known as a mainstream journalist who has absorbed the ethos of the blogosphere. In this 6-minute video interview he discusses transparency […]
Photos of Interactive Media conference
I was too busy meeting folks to blog or to take many photos at the E&P/MediaWeek Interactive Media Conference in Miami. But here’s a small Flickr photo set. And here is a list of the Eppy Award winners announced at a luncheon I attended yesterday. Excellent online journalism spotlighted here.