This Is Not a Call to Unplug From Our Wired Ways, but a Pledge to Old Principles
by Pete BlackshawÂ
Are we overdue for a “slow-marketing” movement? After all, the “slow foods” movement is making real headway, and there’s the much-needed “slow-parenting” movement. Why should marketing be exempt?
Here’s the rub: Speed is good, and change is gospel, [...]
By Dara Kerr
It seemed like celebrity deaths were contagious last week. After the sad news about Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon dying, a wave of viral death notices went out on Twitter for Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Goldblum, and P. Diddy. But all are safe and sound.
“Britney has passed today,” the bogus tweet [...]
By David Cohen
With the explosion of news reports from non-media folks using new technology, YouTube, which ends up hosting a good chunk of those video reports, launched a valuable resource.
The YouTube Reporters’ Center includes instructional videos, tips and advice from established journalists including Katie Couric, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, Scott Simon, Arianna Huffington, Tavis Smiley, [...]
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Alexandra Le Tellier
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As news outlets sprang into action to report on Michael Jackson’s condition June 25, users on social media sites were whipped into a frenzy: He’s not breathing! He’s in a coma! He had a heart attack! And then a Facebook status update, made at 2:21 p.m., that Jackson had died.
Of course, 23 [...]
By Lucia MosesÂ
The OK! cover sure to make waves
OK! Weekly is bracing for some flak over its pick for this week’s cover. While other publications went with feel-good images to commemorate Michael Jackson, OK! chose a grim photo of the dying star being whisked to the hospital June 25.
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A knowledgeable source said British parent Northern [...]
By Jeff Jarvis
Following the frighteningly dangerous thinking of Judge Richard Posner – proposing rewriting copyright law to outlaw linking to and summarizing (aka talking about) news stories – now we have two more lemming lawyers following him off the cliff in a column written by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz.
First note well that Schultz [...]
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BY CARRIE MASON-DRAFFEN
carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.com
11:37 PM EDT, June 29, 2009
In her first public comments since her husband’s arrest in December in a massive Ponzi scheme, Ruth Madoff seemed to seek solidarity with victims.
“Like everyone else, I feel betrayed and confused,” said the statement, released Monday after Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. “The man [...]
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2009/jun/26/bc-mus-jackson-allegationsnd-_-entertainment/?entertainment&national-entertainment
* Originally published June 26, 2009 at 6:28 a.m., updated June 26, 2009 at 7:32 a.m.
By Jennifer Maloney
Newsday
(MCT)
Michael Jackson’s career had been on the decline for a decade when he invited a British documentary crew to his Neverland Ranch.
What he showed them exploded into a lurid criminal case, and three months of graphic testimony about [...]
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService4/idUSTRE55N4AL20090624
Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:59pm EDT
– Deborah L. Cohen covers small business for Reuters.com. She can be reached at smallbusinessbigissues@yahoo.com –
By Deborah L. Cohen
CHICAGO (Reuters.com) — In the past five years, roughly half the new hires at manufacturer Handi-Ramp have been recruited from the online city networking site Craigslist. For those battling to contain costs, [...]
By Jaason Chupick
Google News now has byline search functionality.
This is a big development for anyone responsible for media relations. Since Google came on to the scene, many of its products and approaches to information have helped PR people do their work–especially Google News and Google Alerts–and have in turn, quickened reaction time and made monitoring [...]