Journalism

Compare And Contrast These 2 Blog Pub Strategies

February 6, 2013

Yesterday my email stream included two starkly contrasting approaches to getting links and mentions from bloggers.  One offered me free guest posts, supposedly good quality posts on relevant business topics. The email had links to examples. It’s author said… Having graduated in International Business and Journalism a few years ago, Ive covered everything from global [...]

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Good News for Local Journalism — I Hope

January 13, 2013

This week what my local (Eugene, Oregon) newspaper is doing with an iPad app makes me feel better about the future of journalism in the new online age. I’ve got a newspaper habit. I begin my day with the local paper. While I make my coffee and gather a breakfast, a browse the headlines, and [...]

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The Difference Between a Journalist and a Blogger

January 4, 2013

What’s the difference between a journalist and a blogger? I see this from both sides because I was mainstream journalist for 10 years in the 1970s, then entrepreneur and consultant, software guy, and lately I blog a lot.  A real journalist tries to tell the objective truth, reports facts fairly, strives for balance, and discloses bias. [...]

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Is Print Journalism Dead?

November 20, 2012

Is print journalism dead? I got the question overnight in email from a student working on a research paper. He’d seen this post on this blog about that. He asked me to answer these three questions.  So these are his questions with my answers.  1.) What are the factors that have led to falling sales? Start [...]

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Is Objective Journalism Doomed?

February 27, 2012

Do you ever wonder what happened to objective journalism? I have a thought about that. Until the web changed everything, we got our news from a very few sources: There was a newspaper or two in every city. There were three major networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, offering television and radio news. There were a few [...]

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Missing the Bonding Agent of Mainstream News

November 1, 2011

What an irony: when we all depended on a very few quasi-monopoly mainstream news media, news was more fact and less opinion. Who would have predicted that? I suppose this is hard to believe, but when I was in Journalism grad school a few decades ago teachers, students, and even practicing journalists believed in news [...]

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Business Journalism Problem: Good Advice is Boring

December 21, 2010

I posted here yesterday about a Jay Goltz’ “Cash is Not King” post on NYTimes. I said: So what’s up with this? Is it just man bites dog, good journalism because it’s surprising, reversing standard wisdom? Yes, it is: good journalism, not-so-good business writing, because it’s playing to a catchy headline. It surprises people. He [...]

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Can Stories be True When They’re False?

August 13, 2010

So it turns out that Jenny whiteboard quitting was a hoax. The Jet Blue guy with the chute exit and the beer wasn’t. I posted about both of them here Wednesday. You can read in that post that I suspected Jenny was fiction. I said so then, and I hedged my bets. The two brothers [...]

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Journalism and Blogging: Both Sides Now

July 26, 2010

Jolie O’Dell is a journalist who blogs. She cares about journalism, I gather, because of the way she writes about it in posts like How to Tell a journalist from a Blogger and Not all bloggers are journalists and not all journalists are jerks on her own blog. Most of the time, though, she’s a [...]

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With or Without Paper, the News Lives On. I hope.

July 16, 2010

As the newspaper business seems to die slowly, I console myself with the idea that journalism isn’t dying with it. The Huffington Post is booming. The New York Times will bring in about $350 million this year. The new iPad shows us how we can spread the paper in front of us with coffee and [...]

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