Journalism

Sunday’s Courier-Journal, Louisville’s daily newspaper, is one of the few tactile media publications I still read. I get the paper every day delivered in my RSS feeds, but Sunday mornings with local newspapers are still useful, if for the experience alone. My wife enjoys perusing the coupons. I like reading feature stories and the agate page of the sports section to see items from out-of-market or small college teams the paper never covers.

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Think Traditional Media Is On The Online Ropes? Think Again.

February 22, 2010

Share Oh, woe is journalism. Daily newspapers are dying. People don’t trust traditional media anymore. The American (and global) consumer has turned to blogs and social networks for news in the new media era. November research from the Pew Internet and American Life project shows that only 29 percent of the public thinks the news [...]

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What The Wall Street Journal Has, Few Will Match

October 30, 2009

Share Mediaweek magazine puts together a “Digital Hot List” each year of the websites or companies they see as having the potential to wow the web world. Their list never seems to be much of a surprise, especially when you consider Google, Facebook and Twitter are sort of default entries, but there’s always one or [...]

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Newspapers: Stop Hiding Behind The First Amendment

June 30, 2009

Share I’m proud to say the first legal action that may (I have my fingers firmly crossed) smack newspapers right across the face for allowing their website commentors to post anonymously could stem from a case developing here in my home state of Kentucky. Kymberly Clem, a student at Eastern Kentucky University, is suing the [...]

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SME-TV: Indiconews Adds Depth To Citizen Journalism

June 2, 2009

Share On my recent journey to London, England, I had a moment to meet and chat with Lizzie Hodgson, the founder and CEO of Indiconews, a citizen journalism site that is beginning to take hold and grow in the United Kingdom. Indiconews differs a bit from many of the other civic journalist sites in some [...]

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How Journalists Can Leverage Social Media

February 26, 2009

Share Last summer I spent a good deal of time researching and preparing a presentation for Blog World & New Media Expo on putting social media in the newsroom. The point was to show media outlets how some were using web 2.0 and social media technologies to expand their online offerings and engage audiences around [...]

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Putting Social Media In The Newsroom

September 21, 2008

Share The early feedback from my Blog World Expo panel, “Putting Social Media In The Newsroom: How Social Media Can Help Traditional Media Maintain Relevance,” is very positive. Of course, few people will tell you it stunk to your face, so we’ll see. The slide show: Putting Social Media In The Newsroom View SlideShare presentation [...]

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AllVoices.com Offers Community Of Citizen Journalists

September 21, 2008

Share I was able to catch up with Kathy Jacobs of AllVoices.com at Blog World Expo Saturday. She is the community guru for the site, which is a news content effort totally driven by user submitted news — a citizen journalism lab of sorts. Kathy and I both learned of the bombing in Islamabad from [...]

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The Media And Social Media: I Am Modern Magazine

September 3, 2008

Share This week’s entry in our Media and Social Media series brings us to what we believe to be the only traditional media property totally driven by social media. And it’s not that this particular magazine made a transition to that status. I Am Modern Magazine for Moms was started with that model in mind: [...]

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The Media & Social Media: Follow Up With Cincinnati Enquirer

August 22, 2008

Share Image via Wikipedia On Monday, I gave a sneak preview of my upcoming panel presentation at Blog World & New Media Expo to about 60 folks in attendance at Social Media Club Louisville. Part of the reason was to share some case studies and examples of how some traditional media members are using social [...]

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BusinessWeek Readying Beta Launch Of Social Effort

August 18, 2008

Share Readying for next month’s Blog World Expo presentation on traditional media members saving their audiences by using social media, I’ve been able to find out about some interesting things in the works. I’ve agreed to respect the media outlet’s readiness and am holding off spilling the beans, as it were, but one such media [...]

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