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Web and Newspaper Journalist joins FCC: Commissioner Copps announces Journalist to join FCC as Media advisor. by Doug Hanchard; Tags: FCC, Web, Journalist, Commissioner Copps, Federal Government, Government, Doug Hanchard; Blog posts 2009-11-18
Can you teach programmers to be journalists?: Megan Taylor over at PBS' MediaShift writes about the challenges of getting programmers and journalists to work together.MediaShift . Can Programmers, Journalists Get Along in One Newsroom? | PBS It's an interesting subject because newsrooms are increasingly digital and they need to add programming skills to help...; Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Journalist, Programmer, Ms Taylor, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2009-10-27
WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden: Hat tip to Danny Sullivan for pointing out the above panel at Web 2.0 Summit, which featured Robert Thomson, Wall Street Journal chief, and Marrissa Mayer head of search products at Google, plus Martin Nisenholtz, The New York Times Company, and Eric Hippeau from the Huffington Post, moderated by...; Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Journalist, Thomson Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2009-10-23
Porn stars and journalists share the same troubles caused by the Internet: Porn actors and journalists share similar problems - both their livelihoods are being disrupted by the Internet by Tom Foremski; Tags: Journalist, Internet, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2009-10-09
Social media at the WashPost: It's time to loosen the tie: For the sake of full disclosure, I spent a little more than two years working as an editor and later a reporter/blogger for the Washington Post - roughly from the summer of 2005 until early fall of 2007. I tell you this because it gives you some...; Tags: Journalist, Blog, Social Media, Washington Post Co., Post, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-10-01

AOL, Yahoo find value in original online news; eyeing laid-off journalists: As News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch tries to figure out how to charge for newspaper content and the Associated Press continues to whine about online news aggregators offering up its content, AOL and Yahoo seem to be beefing up their own news operations to provide original content. And,...; Tags: Journalist, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Document Management, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-08-07
Building walls between PR, journalists: A worst practice: One of the elements I love about social media is the tearing down of walls. I have an incredible network of contacts on multiple social networks to whom I can reach out in mere minutes. Just this morning, even, I put out an inquiry for this very blog post on...; Tags: Journalist, Newsletter, Reporter, Service, Wall, Help A Reporter Out, ProfNet, Source, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Construction, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2009-06-17
How a student fooled the world's media: On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...; Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2009-05-13
9 Tips to Pitching the Press: I just returned from keynoting a PR Newswire seminar in Tel Aviv on how to run marketing campaigns on a shoestring budget. Kudos are well deserved to Rakefet, Sharon and the rest of the PR Newswire team as well as Avi Yair at NCSM Marketing and Yigal Cohen at Linx...; Tags: Journalist, PR Newswire, Kudos, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2009-05-05
Google's Schmidt carefully scripted at newspaper powwow: Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared his love for newspapers today in front of an audience at the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention in San Diego. You know: freedom of speech, in-depth reporting, policing government and the elite and so on. For just about an hour, Schmidt...; Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Eric Schmidt, Internet, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-04-07
Digital storm of protests for New York Times defense of AIG bonuses: Andrew Ross Sorkin, a reporter at the New York Times, took a contrarian position on Tuesday, writing an opinion piece that defended the multi-million dollar bonus payments by AIG. . . . If government officials were to break the contracts, they would be â€œbreaking a...; Tags: China, Journalist, Journalism, Yahoo! Inc., American International Group Inc., New York Times Co., Taxes, Free Trade, Wiki, Personal Finance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2009-03-18
NCTE recognizes the evolution of writing: Earlier this year I helped my oldest son edit a paper he had written for his English class. Although it was fairly well-developed, I suggested that he break up his paragraphs into more manageable chunks. Don't be afraid to address an idea and then move onto the next...; Tags: Journalist, Student, NCTE, Web 2.0, Blogging, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2009-03-10
Teaching old-school journalism in a new world: I have been the first to bid good riddance to dead tree news sources. Newspapers folding? Good! This is 2009, after all. If you can't find it on the Web, is it really even worth reading? Obviously, I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek here, but the...; Tags: Newspaper, Press, Journalist, Baltimore, Thomas Jefferson, Performance Management, Blogging, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2009-03-02
Cockroach media will survive this recession: The problems that print, TV, and other media companies are having in their transition to an online business is that the revenues from the new world don't match those from the old. And that means cuts. Here is an extract from a staff memo by Robert Thomson,...; Tags: Revenue, Journalist, Recession, Media, Paul, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2009-02-07
Students: how to pitch a killer product: As I am a British citizen, I like to keep abreast of issues at home; land of Queen Elizabeth II, home of crap dental treatment, Yorkshire puddings, witty sarcastic humour, Monty Python and fish 'n chips. By all that, I mean I read the ZDNet.co.uk pages from time to time....; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Journalist, Student, Public Relations, Entrepreneurship, EAI, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2009-01-24
Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future: With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...; Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2009-01-02
HP ProCurve Networking Sets the Pace at the 2008 London Marathon: Flora London Marathon needed a reliable and secure Wide Area Network WAN to provide journalists with 'Live' information about the competitors as they progressed around the 42 kilometre course. They assessed the requirements of the world's journalists and broadcast media. The company deployed HP ProCurve and its technology partner, the...; Tags: Journalist, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, WANs, Utility Computing, Network Technology, Networking; Case studies 2008-10-01
A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .: I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...; Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing; Blog posts 2008-08-26
Media Leader Increases Speed, Quality of Published Stories With Focused IT Investment: Swiss media giant Ringier wanted to transform its work environment to heighten journalist productivity to gain an edge in a competitive industry. The 7,000-employee company envisioned an "Integrated newsroom" in which its journalists around the world had technology tools to support collaboration and advanced communications. With help from partners Peaches...; Tags: Journalist, Information Technology, Media, IT Investment, Leader, Microsoft Corp., Ringier, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites; Case studies 2008-08-25
Tech 'tips' for Beijing visitors: It looks like foreign tourists are avoiding Beijing in droves. China originally expected 1.5 million visitors. Now thatâ€™s down to 450,000. Still, thatâ€™s nearly 450,000 journalists coming to town. Everyoneâ€™s a reporter now, thanks to tiny electronics and the Web. Even tourists should regard themselves as such....; Tags: China, Journalist, Beijing, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-31