For eons, it seems, the news media has been neck deep in the trial and error business. Since long before I left daily journalism 13 years ago, the media, mainstream newspapers in particular, were trying and failing to be something they weren’t – purveyors of celebrity gossip, click baiters, partisan hatchet sheets and worse. At every [...]
Soon enough, we will be swiping right for our news content. Earlier this month, the female-led dating app Bumble announced that it would be diving into the world of content creation by establishing its own media brand. This isn’t necessarily a surprise, given that the app has expanded in recent years to offer networking opportunities and [...]
A recent oversight in a small Kansas newspaper reopened a common discussion this week. What was meant to be an innocent story about students getting job experience turned into an NSFW headline, all because they forgot a dash. And the Internet went crazy. Of course, for my network of journalists and media managers, this sparked a [...]
It seems like fake news is everywhere you look and it runs the gamut from hurricane shark to websites full of blatant lies and clickbait. It’s no surprise that people are getting a bit wary about where their news comes from. What may be a surprise, though, is how wary journalists are becoming. Journalism is, at heart, the pursuit of [...]
Summer’s road trip time for much of America. Families, cars, beaches, mountains, lakes, drive-ins, roadside joints. One of the things I absolutely adore about being on the road (other than force-feeding my children a diet of great rock music) is picking up the local newspaper wherever we stop. There’s typically a great nugget of local news [...]
The White House communications staff is arguably the most visible set of communications professionals in the country. And, according to a recent study, they could be damaging the industry. This study, published by the USC Center for PR, says a majority of the industry believes the White House communications staff, currently led by Sean Spicer and Sarah [...]
Anyone who spent their formative years in a post-MySpace world has received countless warnings to be mindful of what they post on social media. With graduation season upon us, the Class of 2017 is no doubt turning en masse to their social media accounts to scrub them of any evidence of impropriety. It is a trend [...]
