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Is Your Social Media Editor Destroying Your News Organization Today?
… Over the last few years, most media companies have taken on social media editors, lots of them young-ish, lots of them “digital natives.” (Some neither, of course!) Many of their jobs are construed as helping newsrooms …
Apr 19, 2013, 1:15 PM - In context
The Rise and Fall of the L.A. Examiner, a Blog That Was a Newspaper That Never Existed
— My office was the living room closet in a huge one-bedroom in a 1920s East Hollywood apartment court, across the street from the big blue Scientology headquarters in the old Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
Apr 2, 2013, 7:30 PM - In context
How Much Do BuzzFeed, Gawker and Business Insider Staff Tweet About Work?
— Is Twitter your job? We have maintained in the past that it is not. A year later, we think that more and more media employees are engaged in the practice of using their Twitter accounts to promote not just their work, but their workplaces.
Apr 2, 2013, 3:45 PM - In context
David Grann, What Is Up With Your Twitter?
— Last week, David Grann and I met in his office at The New Yorker, in midtown Manhattan. It is a glorious fire hazard because he doesn't throw anything away. Grann has been a staff writer at the magazine since 2003 and published two books …
Mar 20, 2013, 4:20 PM - In context
Life After Patch.com: A Newspaper Editor Returns To Newsprint
— Patch.com was launched in 2007 when Tim Armstrong, the man who turned Google into an advertising company, noticed his very wealthy Connecticut bedroom community lacked a local paper with an events calendar.
Feb 21, 2013, 1:30 PM - In context
“Disagree And Still Be Friends”: A Conversation With Andrew Sullivan
— My leftist friends are mainly baffled by how much I like Andrew Sullivan. His blog, the Daily Dish, presents a libertarian-inflected center-right political stance. He supported the Iraq War; he is gay and a practicing Catholic.
Jan 23, 2013, 5:25 PM - In context
Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now
— The great menace in headlines in 2011 was that either every headline was “11 Ways to X” or that it was “Y Happens to Z [SLIDESHOW].” You know, whatever our pals at Business Insider and Huffington Post's Celebrity Sideboob's page were doing.
Jan 17, 2013, 1:15 PM - In context
‘Newsweek’ Takes Bold Stance Against Tumblr's Struggle for Profit
— The Tumblr of Newsweek, which still exists, unlike Newsweek, and which is run by the DailyBeast “senior editor for social media,” announced a new policy yesterday. “You pin, we unfollow” was the communiqué—by …
Jan 17, 2013, 10:50 AM - In context
SF Weekly, Seattle Weekly Latest Victims Of Alt-Weekly Newspaper Industry
— Staffers and free-lancers at two West Coast alt-weeklies are nervously awaiting whatever unpleasant news comes with the sale of those papers to local conglomerates. Like all of the once-mighty urban weekly papers …
Jan 9, 2013, 4:55 PM - In context
Are Newspaper People Really Still Wondering If Journalism Can Exist Without Newsprint?
— Decades of often awkward interaction with America's “print media” professionals has proven (to me) that writers who talk about their medium are bores, and also bad writers.
Dec 19, 2012, 4:05 AM - In context
