Update: Had a good chat with Daryl Wilcox, and it looks like we’ve come to a sensible compromise that will allow Tim to do his job and Response Source to maintain its purity. All’s well, etc.
My staff writer at NMK - Tim Hoang - works for the PR company, Rainier, as well. That’s always something [...]
Tag Archives: journalism
Conflict?
December 14, 2007 – 9:16 pm
Things I Wish I’d Said #1084
October 23, 2007 – 8:39 pm
I was at a roundtable debate this morning about Citizen Journalism (update: rather ungenerous of me not to mention this was hosted by the excellent people from iStockPhoto). Everyone saying they want to embrace CJ as part of their forward strategy. I suggest that mainstream media is attempting to contain rather than embrace conversations.
Me (to [...]
Social Media Releases
December 8, 2006 – 2:57 pm
StoryCrafter, Edelman’s version of a social media press release service, has attracted a fair amount of attention. There’s no lack of good comments already out there, but the subject’s interesting to me, so I thought I’d pitch in too.
First a round-up:
Social media press releases are designed to give journalists and bloggers the elements of a [...]
Evil of Digg Overestimated
November 20, 2006 – 6:37 pm
“Story rankings play havoc with traditional journalistic tenets” apparently. In his Dow Jones MarketWatch ‘Ethics Watch’ column, Thomas Kostigen says that digg-style news-voting systems are messing with his mind, continually tempting him to write popular stories.
It emerges, however, that actually it’s not digg that is directly responsible, that’s just a trendy hook for the story. [...]
Criticise Me
November 19, 2006 – 3:04 pm
The Observer reports an interesting decision over at the Daily Mail. With the retirement of its television critic Peter Paterson, it has opted to replace him with… no-one. Since television reviews are among the best-read sections of any newspaper, the decision seemed perverse. But, as Peter Preston explains, it is actually cleverly calculated:
Once upon a [...]
Web 2.0 in the Guardian
November 6, 2006 – 10:18 am
The Guardian reckons Web 2.0 is ready for the mainstream with its Weekend section dominated by a 15-page feature entitled ‘A Bigger Bang’. John Lanchester’s article provides the keynote to the section, in a piece which is well-written and clever:
a new wave of innovation on the internet, an innovation focused not so much on new [...]
MySpace Doooomed. Allegedly.
October 30, 2006 – 11:40 am
The Washington Post has a story about youngsters leaving MySpace in droves that recently hit the front page of digg. And the WSJ agrees with a spookily similar story. Hang on. I recall reading another remarkably similar story four months ago [digg link - the newspaper has moved the piece].
I think these stories are [...]
