Professionals in crisis communication will be talking about this interview for years. Watch the clip. (It’s excruciating.) Read my analysis, which won’t capture everything. Then add your observations in the comments. Andrea Mitchell of NBC News interviews Nancy Brinker, CEO and founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, about the foundation’s decision [...]
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A young journalist for the Tribune Company becomes a product manager and money maker by acting entrepreneurially inside a large organization. Her big idea: Teaching the Web to the people formerly known as the advertisers. “Where’s the money going to come from?” has been the top question in journalism for several years now. Over the [...]
The conservative movement’s warmaking around the “liberal media” is a joke to the people who are actually running for president as conservatives. Data point 1. Vice President Spiro Agnew, speech delivered at Des Moines, Iowa, November 13, 1969 A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a [...]
Somewhere along the way, telling truth from falsehood was surpassed by other priorities to which the press felt a stronger duty. Arthur Brisbane, public editor of the New York Times, was unaware of this history when he asked users of the Times whether reporters should call out false statements. Brisbane’s post, Should The Times Be [...]
“I am not a person who thinks the fundamentals of journalism have changed that much, despite social media. Of course it’s more conversational, engaging. And the online world has changed reporting somewhat, but not fundamentally.” This week the ombudsman of the Washington Post wrote: Is The Post innovating too fast? The column wonders if the [...]
“The Iowa Caucuses are presented as a news event, a mini-election with an informational outcome, a winner. But what they really are is a ritual, the gathering of a tribe, which affirms itself and its place in our political system by staging this thing every four years.” I have been observing and commenting on campaign [...]
You can get mad at your friends, right? I mean… that’s allowed. I am mad at my friends at Politifact because I believe in what they are doing, I think it’s important work, I’ve even helped them do it in a couple of small ways, and now they’ve gone and made it impossible for me [...]
My version of a year end review. These are the highlights from my writing and posting life this year. They are in chronological order: earliest to latest. I have included Facebook likes as a rough proxy for reader interest 1. The “Twitter Can’t Topple Dictators” Article (PressThink, Feb. 13, 2011) “Almost everyone who cares about [...]
I’m teaming up with The Guardian to try something different in campaign journalism. Here’s the announcement post, with my commentary after it. The Citizens Agenda: Making Election Coverage More Useful Co-published with The Guardian. by Amanda Michel and Jay Rosen In a few weeks, the Iowa caucuses will officially kick off the 2012 campaign for [...]
“Being a livestream he acts as ‘eyes and ears’ for the viewers. Literally. People will tell him to move the camera somewhere and he’ll do it. They’ll ask for interviews with someone, and Tim will go over and do so… The viewers will ask him questions and he won’t rest until he gets them their [...]