Media in the New Millennium

By John Metzger
Mass-market adoption of electronic media is a serious threat to print – but not deadly. Not everyone wants to read everything on a computer screen or mobile device, and not all newspapers, magazines and books are going the way of smoke signals, carrier pigeons and Morse code. Some will survive. But, which ones, [...]

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posted by Doyle
The outstanding CBS-TV news program 60 Minutes did a piece last night called “The Movie Pirates” which outlined the global problem of motion picture piracy. Overall, an interesting piece. Sadly, in the end — thanks in large measure to what I think is a lack of technology background and understanding on the part [...]

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Posted by Lisa Greim

The phone rang at 9 a.m. Saturday. It was my high school friend Michael, calling from Switzerland to ask me to interpret a dream.
“My Aunt Lucy used to call and tell people she dreamed about them, and she usually got it right and that was odd, because she was kind of [...]

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Posted by Lisa Greim
National Public Radio affiliates like to talk about “driveway moments” – when an NPR story is so compelling, you have to stay in your car until it finishes.
Truth is, driveway moments are a big pain in the ass, especially when your kids (or co-workers) are staring at you, wondering why you’re still [...]

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Posted by Lisa Metzger
I’m not a big fan of platitudes and cheesy advice. I find the self-help section of book stores creepy. And, at the risk of offending and alienating the entire Western world and certainly a good ¾ of the rest, I think the Cult of Oprah is pathetic. Blaspheme, I know. Going to [...]

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Posted by Lisa Greim
As the Michael Jackson story unfolded, I found myself thinking what an odd world we’ve created. The lure of the instant news cycle – 24-hour news, hell, it changes in seconds – means that headlines are breaking out everywhere and it’s left up to us to figure out who’s credible and why.
TMZ [...]

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posted by Doyle
I recently finished reading Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR by Deirdre Breakenridge and Brian Solis. If you’re working in PR (or just want to) and haven’t read this book yet, you’re behind, plain and simple. Deirdre and Brian set forth a [...]

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Posted by Lauren Preston
It’s no secret that the landscape is changing significantly in the news industry – and that newspapers across the country have been affected by the economic times. Denver became a one-paper town after the Rocky Mountain News closed after almost 150 years in print. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned exclusively online operation and [...]

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Posted by Melissa Vizcarra
The country of Iran held its presidential election last week and now is in a state of turmoil. The “theocratic republic” of Iran jammed text messages, cell phones, and Web sites. It shut down the Facebook page of its opposition, Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister whose campaign hinged on Hope [...]

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posted by Doyle
The Craigslist Witch Hunt is on!
Phillip Markoff, the 23-year-old former medial student labeled “the Craigslist Killer” for allegedly killing a masseuse he hired from online classified ad site Craigslist, has snared a second victim — Craigslist itself. 
More than 40 state attorneys general have called for Craigslist to remove its “erotic” or “adult” sections. Sadly, these people do their [...]

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