Web users are facing an identity crisis. As the public – readers, potential employers, coworkers – continue Googling each other to learn more about who they’re reading, there’s more potential for spoofing.
Daniel Schawbel on Social Media Today wrote a post with some solid advice about claiming your name on popular social networking and blog sites, [...]
Categories: Social Media
This could be subheded, “Always a Sucker for Cute Fuzzy Animals.”
Earlier today, Andy Carvin of NPR posted a tweet about NPR’s Chengdu Diary, a blog by the reporting team sent to China that will accompany a series airing May 19-23 on “All Things Considered.”
Blogs like this allow visitors to get a feel for what it’s [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Ricochet’s hed-to-hed competition went neck and neck, with a near photo-finish between two entrants. In the end, the headlines by Jenny Cromie took the tape.
Contest judge Matthew Crowley had some funny, instructive advice in his assessment:
All of Jenny’s were complete and accurate and summarized their stories.
The Marriott headline used all of those p’s to sonic [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Actor and activist Tim Robbins was opening keynote speaker at the recent National Association of Broadcasters conference. An interesting choice, for sure.
When the time came, Robbins balked, according to an AdAge report.
After a bit of confusion, Robbins took the stage and gave a speech that entertained the audience before delivering a thrashing.
Here, in its entirety, [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: conferences, ideas, NAB, speech, Tim Robbins
The news business, and it is a business, is getting squeezed. There are those who think “big J” journalism is a waste of effort and resources at a time when we can count exactly how many people spend time reading the stories, watching the videos, and clicking around on our interactive features.
Strapped for cash, the [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money
Tagged: business, conferences, NAB, speech, TV
The two big national stories today have been Pope Benedict XVI’s public event in Washington and the Democratic candidates’ debate in Philadelphia.
(Photos by jurvetson/Flickr, Nrbelex/Flickr)
TV and cable coverage of the pope has overshadowed almost everything else. But looking at Google Trends, it appears the debate is the more popular topic nationwide.
Tonight’s hotly anticipated faceoff between [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media
If you’re on Facebook and you’re interested in the Online News Association conference in September, join the growing Facebook group.
This year’s conference promises to have more hands-on workshops, more networking opportunities, a backchat channel, and more discussions about the business side of the news business.
Full conference details can be found on the conference website.
By the [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media
Tagged: conferences
Las Vegas Review-Journal copy editor Matthew Crowley has graciously agreed to judge Ricochet’s headline writing competition.
Crowley won the American Copy Editors Society “Best Headlines of the Year” contest in the newspapers with circulations between 100,001 and 250,000 category.
Judges gave his work special citation, saying:
In a time when newspapers need more than ever to shake off [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
The American Copy Editors Society doled out awards for best headlines of the year Thursday, highlighting what peers deemed exemplars of “the quality of copy editing amid dwindling resources, tighter deadlines and more work.”
In the spirit of copyediting greatness, this week’s One for Fun is a headline contest.
April 15 Update: In the spirit of Tax [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Senior editors at the Los Angeles Times met earlier this week to decide in three days what three years will hold in store.
Kevin Roderick at L.A. Observed posted an email from Editor in Chief Russ Stanton that outlines the roadmap cooked up during the conference.
Though the proof will be in the execution, it looks like [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money
Tagged: evolution, LA Times, newspapers