Turning Journalists Into PR PeopleFrom hack to flack...As a former journalist who has been a communications consultant for about 20 years now, and someone who has hired into his PR agency both journalism school graduates and more grizzled veterans, I couldn't agree more with many of the points you make.It...
Should the Ivy League Buy The New York Times?Out with the old models, in with the newFirst, to the extent that the future of journalism is reliant on funding/acquisition of news publishers by public or non-profit sources, we will have failed. The future of journalism should not be based on...
The fifth annual State of the News Media report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, says that "In the last year, the trends reshaping journalism didn't just quicken, they seemed to be nearing a pivot point." The report states that "the biggest problem facing traditional...
For over a decade, Andrew Breitbart has been changing the face of news and information. For most of that time, he has been Matt Drudge's right hand man, helping post stories daily on Drudge Report, one of the most widely read websites in the world. He's also helped launch The...
Americans have a more positive--and more complicated--set of attitudes toward journalism than the recent wave of criticism would suggest. A study from the University of Missouri School of Journalism shows that the consumers of U.S. journalism respe Americans have a more positive--and more complicated--set...
NEW YORK -- The New York Times announced today its new branding campaign, "These Times Demand The Times," focusing on the high-quality journalism produced by Times reporters in print and online.
First off, let's address one thing: Citizen journalists don't particularly aspire to be called "journalists." That's a label mainstream journalists often apply when writing about this mutating media ecosystem. Many citizen media folks are First off, let's address one thing: Citizen journalists don't...
"To teach the craft of journalism is a worthy goal but dearly insufficient in this new world and within the setting of a great university," Lee C. Bollinger, the new president of Columbia University wrote when he suspended the Graduate Sc "To teach the...
Fay Shapiro, new associate publisher in the new New York office of Infocom Group, has successfully tilled the fields of journalism, newsletters, public relations, and directory publishing. She graduated in journalism from the University of Illinois. After spending about a year, as she put it, "Fooling around in newspapers," she...
Byline: Greg David Plagiarism is very much in the news. The authors of a book claiming that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene have sued the publisher of The Da Vinci Code, arguing that its author, Dan Brown, stole their concept--as if thousands ...
With the company's more than a century-old commitment to quality journalism in mind, Hearst Corporation and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism today announced the establishment of the Hearst Fellowship Fund in Business Journalism at the university. The program will provide financial assistance to graduate students in the business...
From the executive summary: ‘Part magazine, part catalog, the magalog is either a logical extension of the brand or a threat to journalism. From a business point of view, magalogs represent an entirely logical development of the brand. Like the interactive mega-store, the magalog turns brand meaning into a tangible...
Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism is Putting Democracy at Risk by Davis Merritt, AMACOM, 1601 Broadway, NY, NY 10019, www.amacombooks.org, ISBN: 0-8144-0854-0 240 pages, $24.95.
Byline: Greg David "The city appears to have lost more than 3,300 [hotel] rooms in the past few years. Hotel union officials and some hotel owners find the trend appalling, because of the loss of jobs, and because of what it could mean to...
In my opinion there is rampant corrupt journalism bombarding us each day. I am not talking about our chemical publications or technical journals--but I am talking about the national media that can and does affect each of us and can economically affec In my opinion there...
YouTube.com, the Web site where people freely upload and view video of all sorts, has nothing to do with journalism as we know it, but it can teach journalists a couple of things that we ought to learn. (1) It reveals how many people have broadband ...
Lesley Stahl, one of the well-known faces on CBS's long running news show "60 Minutes," visited the University of Charleston this week to speak about personal experiences and the recent evolutions of journalism.Lesley Stahl, one of the well-known faces on CBS's long running news show "60 Minutes," visited the University...
As this issue of Nieman Reports goes to press, Sirius, the Dog Star, rises with the sun. We are in the midst of dog days, and the suspicions of the ancients that it is a time liable to madness are hard to ignore. ...
Floyd McKay, professor of journalism at Western Washington University, plans to retire in June 2004, after 14 years of teaching. He has already begun a return to his journalism ... Floyd McKay, professor of journalism at Western Washington University, plans to retire in June...
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