Newspaper worker: Do you have an “Escape Plan?” (1)
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There is a new group on Facebook called Newspaper Escape Plan and with all the layoffs and notices of layoffs it has mushroomed in less than two weeks. My Aussie and UK Facebook pals are also worried... [© Robb Montgomery]
Changing Business Through The Unconference (3)
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In LEO: The C-J’s Summer of Discontent (1)
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When LEO Editor Stephen George proposed the idea of summing up what’s happened to the local paper this year in a media column, I worried that there might not be enough information to fill a column. Then I started looking back over our reports here at The ‘Ville Voice, and realized I’d need more space to fit it all in. What’s left is an item-by-item column chronicling the belt-tightening cutbacks and attempts to stay relevant ...
Great Media Coverage! (1)
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The 'M' Word - Marketing Libraries (8)
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This is the sort of publicity that all libararians crave. Check out this front-page headline:This is one of those free "what's happening around town" papers. I picked it up while shopping around the nearby town of Haddonfield, NJ. It was available in many stores and restaurants. The article says what sorts of things the library offers, when it's open, etc. But the headline is what will stick in people's minds, even if they didn't carry ...
Surprise: Another journalist hates the blogosphere (1)
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It seems that hardly a day passes without a journalist trashing the blogosphere - and for some reason it tends to happen most often when someone is writing about sports. Christie Blatchford is among the most recent - see “I’m not blogging this, mark my words” on the Globe and Mail website. While I’ve written about this topic fairly extensively before (see here, here, and here in particular), a few of her points - all ...
Tri-City News: The Joys Of Telecommuting (1)
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A few weeks ago, I pitched an idea to the local newspaper about the growing popularity of telecommuting from home. Turns out, their reporter was looking for a interviewee on this very same topic! Read a larger version here. Also, I thought it was great the photographer let Karen wear her McLovin t-shirt, in a sly reference to the character from the film Superbad. You can grab the shirt for yourself from Snorg Tees.
Opinion: Is the US newspaper situation really that bad? (1)
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In his Digital Deliverance blog, Vin Crosbie outlines his arguments, predicting that numerous US newspapers would go out of business in the future because print is dying, with regional papers folding in first, and that the industry will go through a "gray age."Advertisers aren't the "primary customers" of papers. Readers are the "root of the business", because readers appeal to advertisers who will in turn bring profits to newspapers. Crosbie mentions that the declining newspaper ...
For young journalists, it’s all about attitude (1)
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I am late to the game on this, but I was off the grid for a couple days at corporate database training. Wait, what? I thought young journalists are all self-taught and nobody respects you enough to care about whether you improve. And isn’t corporate killing journalism? And databases on the web, the curmedgeons wouldn’t approve of such new-fangled, innovative ideas. Yet, I swear the company paid to send me and another young reporter (and ...
Kommt der plötzliche Tod der Gattung Tageszeitungen? (1)
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Hugo E. Martin on Media, Marketing & Internet (45)
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Leonard Witt folgt Vin Crosbie bei seiner Entdeckung des "Phänomens eines immanenten, plötzlichen Todes der Zeitungen "...In seinem Beitrag 'Vin Crosbie on the Imminent Death of Newspapers' auf PJNet zitiert er Vin (Keynote 2nd Annual Global Conference of Individuated Newspaper)"More than 1.3 billion people are gravitating to whatever … matches their individually unique mix of interests. They’re gravitating away from Mass Media and its one-size-fits-all attempt at satisfying 1.3 billion unique mixes of interests. I’ll ...
How to write the perfect headline (2)
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In a rush to meet deadlines or share a blog post with the masses, many of us fail to dedicate the necessary time and effort to the most critical and viewed element of any article: the headline. The headline is the first — and often only — means of converting a viewer to reader. Fail at this and you negate any reason for writing the article at all. Recently, I read that Google knows of ...
Daily Diving (1)
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Sanskrit newspaper ‘Sudharma’ goes online (1)
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Sudharma newspaper; (Inset) Editor K.V. Sampath Kumar Read sudharma e-paper This scene was in the mid ’90s. The Paati (Ajji/Grandmother) in my apartments used to subscribe to a newspaper which I hadn’t seen anywhere. The newspaper was just one sheet - front and back. She would read it just after her lunch, around 11 in the morning. Clad in a madishaal, she would munch Chakkali or Mucchore (she would call this ‘Unda baayige oggarane’) and ...
August 2008 Summary: Oi, move it! (1)
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Not since Usain Bolt’s chest-thumping 100m victory has anything got off to such flying start as the TNTJ blog ring. But, unlike Usain’s historic win, we still have it all to do — so keep those entries coming. We’re doing our best to get them approved and posted as quick as we can. So far, we’ve had six submissions to this month’s topic: “The biggest challenge facing a young journalist in today’s meda is…” If ...
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Quote of the Day From Molly Bingham (1)
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Just re-posting something from last night on Page One. Molly Bingham and Steve Connors screened their movie Meeting Resistance last evening for Louisville’s Metro Democratic Club. During the Q&A, Bingham was questioned by Brian Smith about whether or not she would consider moving back to Louisville in order to buy back the Courier-Journal, which her family owned for millions of years. The crowd roared with applause and yells. (Keep in mind that we’re Democrats– we ...
