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Below the Fold
http://belowthefold.typepad.com/my_weblog
Media, culture and politics in the modern age.
- Added on: Apr 30th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Culture Journalists Politics
- Tags: Advertising Public Relations media pr newspapers News Media
Recent Posts
Where There is Journalism, There is Hope
(Note: The following is the final chapter from my forthcoming book, “The Last Newspaper.” It’s printed here with permission from, well, myself...) “The one thing most likely to make the public value newspapers is newspapers valuing the pu...
A Thanksgiving Story Worth Repeating
(The following post originally ran Nov. 21, 2007, and has become a holiday tradition of sorts. For those who have read it before, please pardon the repetition -- and for those who are reading it for the first time, I hope it serves as a reminder of w...
PR Industry: Fall Back, or Spring Forward
My relationship with PRSA – the Public Relations Society of America – goes back to 1994 when I first got into the business. As a journalist, I belonged to the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and was even president of the University of M...
Let's Say Goodbye to Social Media “Gurus”
I’ve never liked the term Guru – it’s a throwaway word, much like Paradigm, Content, or Kanye. Plus, I wonder if calling a marketing person a “guru” is offensive to actual gurus, and whether by using the term I’ll get......
Leave the Journalism to the Journalists
Being married for 18 years has taught me how to make excuses. Usually these excuses have little effect, other than to serve as a caustic reminder of just how little influence I have in my own house. Nevertheless, my excuse......
What Google Doesn’t Know (and never will)
Inspired by a colleague who proclaimed that “books would be dead” in five years, I posed a tongue-in-cheek question on my Facebook page, asking “what will disappear first, books or the book review section” of newspapers? Expecting similarly t...
