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Since she started out at Gawker, Ana Marie Cox has gone on to have her pick of good jobs, including in mainstream media. Her latest was with Air America. Now that Air America has folded , we're watching what her next move will be. Last year, her husband was laid off from CQ. Perhaps the two of them will launch a new digital business associated with Inside the Beltway. MORE
I suppose he must have already known that the rise of the internet and social media, etc. had severely limited the chances of ''specialists'' like me to get their output published in the mainstream media. Today this blog marks its fifth anniversary. Blogging hadn''t really occurred to me until Michael Crick, then of BBC 2''s Newsnight programme, and now at Channel 4 News , suggested to me that it might be a good idea. MORE
Wonderful mainstream media jobs have been thrust upon her since then. For most of us digitals, Politico writers are gods. So everything they do, we mere mortals watch. Lately, there has been a lot of movement out for us to observe. And to speculate about. The latest to hit the exit door will be brilliant political analyst/communicator Michael Calderone. MORE
The old-line world of media changes slowly. Most of mainstream media lacks that hustling gene. Otherwise, it would have picked up years ago on the digital threat and saved itself. A sign of that tendency to harden in its assumptions and rituals is that the NATIONAL ENQUIRER did not win a Pulitzer for its investigative reporting of the John Edwards sex saga. It should have. MORE
Boxing needs to adopt media training immediately. What is missing, and has been for the past three decades , is the ability to communicate with the media in a way that allows the sport to cross over into the mainstream. Media training can, and would, change that. This isn’t about boxing – it’s about dealing with the media. Media training would have provided him the skillset necessary to handle the post-fight interview. MORE
It's gotten that unprofitable in mainstream media that even deep pocket Rupert Murdoch might be forced to choose among his right-wing toys. Already he has sold the WEEKLY STANDARD to Clarity Media Group, reports NEW YORK MAGAZINE. Could the NEW YORK POST be next on the block? After all, Murdoch already has his favorite toy THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. MORE
Demand Media, which usually pays writers $15 for a well-researched original article, is thriving as a business. It will do even better, reports VANITY FAIR, if it sells that content to mainstream media. For writers who supply that content, though, that process represents bottom-fishing. Some writers might consider the arrangement a type of internship where they can build experience and a portfolio. Nothing wrong with that strategy. MORE
Will more mainstream media stars be jumping the mainstream ship? Analysis Video Media Training TJ WalkerFOX’s Glenn Beck is about to wrap up his TV show and start a paid web network. Former MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann has kicked off his new show on Current TV — a network with an average of only 23,000 viewers during primetime. MORE
Newbie in the media space, digital-only Drudge Report established itself with Monicagate. And those analyzing how to succeed in media got it: The most efficient and quickest way to positioning and packaging oneself as a player was to become a platform for the negative. What had changed it that it had become okay for mainstream media to develop special niches in it. It broke the story of The Intern. MORE
The way to frame that for maximum ratings is through Occupy Wall Street, Therefore, there should be no surprise that the mainstream media outlets, which are in a Darwinian fight for readers and ad dollars, are burying the current president. Initially they came to praise him, the prime mover in media innovation. Branding careers Current Affairs Media Personal Musings Politics Television WritingThe story is the lousy economy. MORE
My hunch is that more and more of those with power have had it with being clubbed like baby seals to engage constituencies through social media. careers Current Affairs legal Media Web/Tech Weblogs WritingThere's joy in Ghostville today and I am not referring to the Halloween kind. Until recently, many of us ghostwriters have been saddled with low-paying simplistic assignments creating blog posts for executives. MORE
Is there sanity beyond the mainstream? I’m struck more than ever by the lack of productive address to our multi-toothed-and-clawed Global Crisis - and by the lack of any comprehensive critique in the mainstream media. [.]. By Dennis Bumstead, PhD I’ve just returned to the USA, after some weeks in the Third World on a spiritual retreat. MORE
The pain continues in mainstream media. On Mediabistro.com, Betsy Rothstein reports that sources tell her that 30 were let go at US NEWS & WORLD REPORT. About 20 of those were in the Washington D.C. bureau. MORE
In my own firm clients want more coverage by mainstream media. Branding careers Current Affairs Generational Divide Media Music Web/TechEveryone expected Facebook stock to plunge today. Those who had bought stock were allowed to sell it and that they did. It closed around 19+. Clearly, Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure. MORE
What we do know for certain, reports THE WASHINGTON POST's Howard Kurtz, is that economics writer for THE NEW YORK TI ES Peter Goodman is shifting to the new media HUFFINGTON POST. Goodman's move sends a signal that new media has now become equal with mainstream media, even its elite publications like THE NEW YORK TIMES. Will the influence and power eventually tip in favor of new media? MORE
Mainstream media once provided a rich source but today, chasing the quickest buck at the lowest cost, most media outlets offer a diet of celebrity-drenched trivia. When we make a presentation we occupy the space defined by Peter Drucker as that of a “Knowledge Worker”, someone who “works primarily with information”. Our goal is to inform and persuade. Information is the bedrock of our ability to do that. MORE
Gerry Storch, former night news, sports and business editor of USA Today, and now editor of a new combination of blog/book called Ourblook , recently interviewed me regarding social media, journalism and the future of online communication: You work with corporate execs, politicians and other leaders in public speaking … what to say and how to say it. How do social media such as Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc. However, mainstream media still matter. MORE
PR has the advantage of being able to bundle old media and new media and put it all on a heaping platter for clients. A clever PR pro can serve up opinion-editorials in mainstream media such as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and FORBES and at the same time link to the dominant bloggers in an industry. Instead it is spending its funds on social media Marketing and advertising are down. MORE
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You may even have media coverage of your message (either mainstream media or social media — or both). Presentation social media“The real leader serves truth, not people.&# -J.B. Yeats. The truth, of course, does not depend upon a consensus of opinion. Speaking to an audience that does not like what you have to say can be a leadership challenge. It can lead to unpopularity. Hisses. Photo credit: Michael Case. MORE
With Mr. Colbert's NEWSWEEK mainstream media will finally be presenting the real deal: Events positioned and packaged as totally representing someone's or some ideology's or some pop tart's perspective. That rag had become so predictably boring, a mashup of elite media and the struggle for a cool conversation a la blogosphere. The collapse of the kind of journalism which declared it was objective was long overdue. MORE
Soon after the editor flagged me that a major media property would be linking to it today. A client I had done a comprehensive social media/mainstream media proposal for responded positively. The International Monetary Fund [IMF] delivered a dark warning about the state of the global economy. That included a revised forecast downward for U.S. GDP growth. MORE
There was a black patch when the demand was for content for social media. Then some of us who were alert noticed that both influencers and marketers wouldn't get the results they hoped for only by leveraging social media. So, we ghostwriters who had social media down cold knew how to pitch the others kinds of add-ons. There are other ways to make the big money other than being a techie. MORE
Think of the mainstream media and you have it in the folks who bring us the news. by Peter Paskale. How do you choose which candidate to vote for? I’ll bet you go into the booth, earnestly scratch your head, and muse: “Now which of these candidates do I most fervently disagree with? Ah – yes – this guy or gal – they really upset me! I’ll vote for them!”. You don’t? Why in that case you must be voting for a candidate that you agree with! MORE
In late April around the same time, both THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK will introduce what could set fresh trends in mainstream media. Owning that piece of media turf could become a model for other international, national, regional and local media. Mainstream media has made it through the emergence of digital, the Great Recession, and changing reader habits. MORE
We went to the mainstream media and government officials. Public opinion about the oil industry and others whose business impacts the ocean will never be the same. We animal lovers are a passionate vocal constituency, with a track record for protecting those non-human inhabitants of planet earth. MORE
Since that alternate is positioned as "pure," versus the impure mainstream media, I was shocked. But I guess every bit of media needs every bit of revenue it can attract in this era when it's a challenge to monetize. Tags: Media Writing Last week I noticed that alternate free newspaper the NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE had an ad right on its front page. It was on the very bottom. But it was there. MORE
Ana Marie Cox, who easily landed at GQ and had her ticket punched at many more other mainstream media publications, used to complain about how she had to pump out 10 posts a day at GAWKER for peanuts. What web operation isn't a sweatshop? So, I don't expect TIME's supposed expose on POLITICO tomorrow to crash its servers with visitors. Every industry, company, and individual in change better pull out all stops. MORE
Media release reprinted with permission: Toronto,ON – Citizen media news outlet DigitalJournal.com is proud to announce it will be hosting a unique panel discussion featuring some of the most influential leaders in Canadian media. Dubbed “The Future of Media,” the live panel discussion will explore how the mainstream media are implementing user-generated content and what [.]. Tags: Freelance Writing - General future of media MORE
More often it can take the news from mainstream media such as THE NEW YORK TIMES and run with an iconoclastic or activist stance. Branding careers Current Affairs Media Values Web/Tech Weblogs WritingNo surprise, in this era in which we need insight, the survey by PR Week/Porter Novelli found that only 38% thought being first out there was important. MORE
For both bloggers and mainstream media it's the source for the stories we will either piggyback on or simply aggregate. MediaTHE NEW YORK POST, full of gossip, sensationalism, and right wing opinions, is the tabloid we all read, mostly first thing in the morning and then a few times during the day. Incidentally, it frequently has a legal story before any of the established Law.com publications. MORE
He even had guest columns now and then in brandname media. One of the things I did was edit pro bono an opinion-editorial he was publishing in a mainstream media property. Commercial success does not necessarily come from tons of digital connections and even heading online communities. We ghostwriters usually learn this the hard way when investing in a prospect. Let's call him Peter. MORE
That she leveraged into a solid brandname and easy access to mainstream media positions. Clearly, it's the end of the era. Snark, even GAWKER founder Nick Denton concedes, has run its course. Former Gawker Emily Gould might have published her memories of that time AND THE HEART SAYS just after closing time. MORE
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In getting media coverage for a new client I needed (who doesn't) to hit it out of the park. The challenge was the increasing difficulty of attracting the interest of the shrinking pool of reporters and anchors in mainstream media. More than half of the media coverage my client received was from them. Those posts, in turn, can be leveraged for media relations. Media Media listen to media. MORE
Clearly, mainstream media has been changing. Current Affairs Media Web/Tech WritingTIME magazine, like the former LIFE magazine, is filled with photos and very short takes. Whether it can change enough to survive, especially with its high overhead, is the question of this second decade of the 21st century. MORE
Mainstream media, not the secure place to be. Yet young people keep signing on as interns at mainstream media. Volatility continues. Mediabistro.com reports that Readers Digest replaced president Eva Dillon with Lisa Starples and in Iowa, Meredith laid off 20. Some will get lucky. But most will wind up with serial internships and no paid job at the end of their youth. MORE
below), this weekend has been alive with the sound of turning in the mainstream media, blogs and on Twitter. Thanks to a speech to the Fabian Society (above) and endless interviews by Ed Balls (e.g. Under a headline 'This is new all right. it just isn't enough ' , John Rentoul of the Independent on Sunday tells us 'Ed Balls caught up with where the Labour Party should have been 16 month ago. It was an important moment.' more HERE ). MORE
Champions of retaining mainstream media [MSM] contend that is necessary to ensure factual accuracy. This is an arrow in the heart of the push to mainstream mainstream media through government help. Tags: Media After all, unlike much of citizen journalism, MSM has the infrastructure for cautious reporting of the facts, fact-checking, and the editing process. Well, those champions might be losing their thunder. MORE
Dilenschneider's client Lou Dobbs is also getting top-drawer exposure in mainstream media, ranging from GQ to THE NEW YORK NEWS. Public relations leader Bob Dilenschneider seems to be having a very good week. His latest book AMA HANDBOOK ON PUBLIC RELATIONS has been on a steep upward trajectory. This morning on Amazon.com it's at 56,275. You bet, I rejoice with Dilenschneider. MORE
Now, it goes way beyond the traditional dictum in media of If it bleeds, it leads. Mainstream media have hammered us with the suffering of everyone. Collectively, we might confront The Great Gravitas by ignoring media reports that don't involve our ability to make a living and invest wisely. The game is The Great Gravitas. It used to be primarily played in tabloids like The National Enquirer and Star. MORE
For mainstream media like the News Corp. In games like Twitter, the game isn't zero-sum. What Twitter and other digital players create can generate more overall business, not just business for them. the game remains totally zero-sum. The eyeballs that Rupert Murdoch is reaching for with his New York section of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL will be eyeballs that THE NEW YORK TIMES will be losing. MORE
The PORTLAND TRIBUNE, a piece of the mainstream media, didn't dig into the allegations about sexual misconduct by Al Gore. The mainstream media and the police frequently cave to the powers-that-be. In a similar manner, tabloid on the legal world, called ABOVETHELAW.COM is doing the kind of deep investigative digging that we might have expected in less complicated times from the mainstream media. MORE
The mainstream press hadn't yet focused on the brewing scandal. Today, it's the tabloids like the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and like ABOVETHELAW.COM which are trusted, more than the mainstream media. Now the police in Oregon are reopening that case and the mainstream media there hadn't followed up the allegations, at least not at the time. Tags: Media MORE
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 11, 2010
Mainstream media, not the secure place to be. Yet young people keep signing on as interns at mainstream media. Volatility continues. Mediabistro.com reports that Readers Digest replaced president Eva Dillon with Lisa Starples and in Iowa, Meredith laid off 20. Some will get lucky. But most will wind up with serial internships and no paid job at the end of their youth.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
Champions of retaining mainstream media [MSM] contend that is necessary to ensure factual accuracy. This is an arrow in the heart of the push to mainstream mainstream media through government help. Tags: Media After all, unlike much of citizen journalism, MSM has the infrastructure for cautious reporting of the facts, fact-checking, and the editing process. Well, those champions might be losing their thunder.
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 20, 2010
For mainstream media like the News Corp. In games like Twitter, the game isn't zero-sum. What Twitter and other digital players create can generate more overall business, not just business for them. the game remains totally zero-sum. The eyeballs that Rupert Murdoch is reaching for with his New York section of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL will be eyeballs that THE NEW YORK TIMES will be losing.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 1, 2010
The pain continues in mainstream media. On Mediabistro.com, Betsy Rothstein reports that sources tell her that 30 were let go at US NEWS & WORLD REPORT. About 20 of those were in the Washington D.C. bureau.
TJ Walker Interactive
JUNE 21, 2011
Will more mainstream media stars be jumping the mainstream ship? Analysis Video Media Training TJ WalkerFOX’s Glenn Beck is about to wrap up his TV show and start a paid web network. Former MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann has kicked off his new show on Current TV — a network with an average of only 23,000 viewers during primetime.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 27, 2011
My hunch is that more and more of those with power have had it with being clubbed like baby seals to engage constituencies through social media. careers Current Affairs legal Media Web/Tech Weblogs WritingThere's joy in Ghostville today and I am not referring to the Halloween kind. Until recently, many of us ghostwriters have been saddled with low-paying simplistic assignments creating blog posts for executives.
Matt Eventoff
OCTOBER 14, 2009
Gerry Storch, former night news, sports and business editor of USA Today, and now editor of a new combination of blog/book called Ourblook , recently interviewed me regarding social media, journalism and the future of online communication: You work with corporate execs, politicians and other leaders in public speaking … what to say and how to say it. How do social media such as Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc. However, mainstream media still matter.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
APRIL 30, 2009
Is there sanity beyond the mainstream? I’m struck more than ever by the lack of productive address to our multi-toothed-and-clawed Global Crisis - and by the lack of any comprehensive critique in the mainstream media. [.]. By Dennis Bumstead, PhD I’ve just returned to the USA, after some weeks in the Third World on a spiritual retreat.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
Clearly, mainstream media has been changing. Current Affairs Media Web/Tech WritingTIME magazine, like the former LIFE magazine, is filled with photos and very short takes. Whether it can change enough to survive, especially with its high overhead, is the question of this second decade of the 21st century.
Six-Figure Freelancer Blog
AUGUST 27, 2009
Media release reprinted with permission: Toronto,ON – Citizen media news outlet DigitalJournal.com is proud to announce it will be hosting a unique panel discussion featuring some of the most influential leaders in Canadian media. Dubbed “The Future of Media,” the live panel discussion will explore how the mainstream media are implementing user-generated content and what [.]. Tags: Freelance Writing - General future of media
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 4, 2010
The PORTLAND TRIBUNE, a piece of the mainstream media, didn't dig into the allegations about sexual misconduct by Al Gore. The mainstream media and the police frequently cave to the powers-that-be. In a similar manner, tabloid on the legal world, called ABOVETHELAW.COM is doing the kind of deep investigative digging that we might have expected in less complicated times from the mainstream media.
The Presenter's Blog
JUNE 21, 2011
Mainstream media once provided a rich source but today, chasing the quickest buck at the lowest cost, most media outlets offer a diet of celebrity-drenched trivia. When we make a presentation we occupy the space defined by Peter Drucker as that of a “Knowledge Worker”, someone who “works primarily with information”. Our goal is to inform and persuade. Information is the bedrock of our ability to do that.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 27, 2010
Since she started out at Gawker, Ana Marie Cox has gone on to have her pick of good jobs, including in mainstream media. Her latest was with Air America. Now that Air America has folded , we're watching what her next move will be. Last year, her husband was laid off from CQ. Perhaps the two of them will launch a new digital business associated with Inside the Beltway.
The Presenter's Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Think of the mainstream media and you have it in the folks who bring us the news. by Peter Paskale. How do you choose which candidate to vote for? I’ll bet you go into the booth, earnestly scratch your head, and muse: “Now which of these candidates do I most fervently disagree with? Ah – yes – this guy or gal – they really upset me! I’ll vote for them!”. You don’t? Why in that case you must be voting for a candidate that you agree with!
Matt Eventoff
AUGUST 16, 2011
Boxing needs to adopt media training immediately. What is missing, and has been for the past three decades , is the ability to communicate with the media in a way that allows the sport to cross over into the mainstream. Media training can, and would, change that. This isn’t about boxing – it’s about dealing with the media. Media training would have provided him the skillset necessary to handle the post-fight interview.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Since that alternate is positioned as "pure," versus the impure mainstream media, I was shocked. But I guess every bit of media needs every bit of revenue it can attract in this era when it's a challenge to monetize. Tags: Media Writing Last week I noticed that alternate free newspaper the NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE had an ad right on its front page. It was on the very bottom. But it was there.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 28, 2012
For both bloggers and mainstream media it's the source for the stories we will either piggyback on or simply aggregate. MediaTHE NEW YORK POST, full of gossip, sensationalism, and right wing opinions, is the tabloid we all read, mostly first thing in the morning and then a few times during the day. Incidentally, it frequently has a legal story before any of the established Law.com publications.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 25, 2010
In late April around the same time, both THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK will introduce what could set fresh trends in mainstream media. Owning that piece of media turf could become a model for other international, national, regional and local media. Mainstream media has made it through the emergence of digital, the Great Recession, and changing reader habits.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 6, 2010
The mainstream press hadn't yet focused on the brewing scandal. Today, it's the tabloids like the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and like ABOVETHELAW.COM which are trusted, more than the mainstream media. Now the police in Oregon are reopening that case and the mainstream media there hadn't followed up the allegations, at least not at the time. Tags: Media
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 28, 2015
Now, it goes way beyond the traditional dictum in media of If it bleeds, it leads. Mainstream media have hammered us with the suffering of everyone. Collectively, we might confront The Great Gravitas by ignoring media reports that don't involve our ability to make a living and invest wisely. The game is The Great Gravitas. It used to be primarily played in tabloids like The National Enquirer and Star.
More than PowerPoint...
MARCH 18, 2011
You may even have media coverage of your message (either mainstream media or social media — or both). Presentation social media“The real leader serves truth, not people.&# -J.B. Yeats. The truth, of course, does not depend upon a consensus of opinion. Speaking to an audience that does not like what you have to say can be a leadership challenge. It can lead to unpopularity. Hisses. Photo credit: Michael Case.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 3, 2010
We went to the mainstream media and government officials. Public opinion about the oil industry and others whose business impacts the ocean will never be the same. We animal lovers are a passionate vocal constituency, with a track record for protecting those non-human inhabitants of planet earth.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Demand Media, which usually pays writers $15 for a well-researched original article, is thriving as a business. It will do even better, reports VANITY FAIR, if it sells that content to mainstream media. For writers who supply that content, though, that process represents bottom-fishing. Some writers might consider the arrangement a type of internship where they can build experience and a portfolio. Nothing wrong with that strategy.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 10, 2013
There was a black patch when the demand was for content for social media. Then some of us who were alert noticed that both influencers and marketers wouldn't get the results they hoped for only by leveraging social media. So, we ghostwriters who had social media down cold knew how to pitch the others kinds of add-ons. There are other ways to make the big money other than being a techie.
Max Atkinson
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
I suppose he must have already known that the rise of the internet and social media, etc. had severely limited the chances of ''specialists'' like me to get their output published in the mainstream media. Today this blog marks its fifth anniversary. Blogging hadn''t really occurred to me until Michael Crick, then of BBC 2''s Newsnight programme, and now at Channel 4 News , suggested to me that it might be a good idea.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 17, 2009
It's gotten that unprofitable in mainstream media that even deep pocket Rupert Murdoch might be forced to choose among his right-wing toys. Already he has sold the WEEKLY STANDARD to Clarity Media Group, reports NEW YORK MAGAZINE. Could the NEW YORK POST be next on the block? After all, Murdoch already has his favorite toy THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 12, 2017
Newbie in the media space, digital-only Drudge Report established itself with Monicagate. And those analyzing how to succeed in media got it: The most efficient and quickest way to positioning and packaging oneself as a player was to become a platform for the negative. What had changed it that it had become okay for mainstream media to develop special niches in it. It broke the story of The Intern.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 16, 2012
In my own firm clients want more coverage by mainstream media. Branding careers Current Affairs Generational Divide Media Music Web/TechEveryone expected Facebook stock to plunge today. Those who had bought stock were allowed to sell it and that they did. It closed around 19+. Clearly, Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 15, 2012
In getting media coverage for a new client I needed (who doesn't) to hit it out of the park. The challenge was the increasing difficulty of attracting the interest of the shrinking pool of reporters and anchors in mainstream media. More than half of the media coverage my client received was from them. Those posts, in turn, can be leveraged for media relations. Media Media listen to media.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
More often it can take the news from mainstream media such as THE NEW YORK TIMES and run with an iconoclastic or activist stance. Branding careers Current Affairs Media Values Web/Tech Weblogs WritingNo surprise, in this era in which we need insight, the survey by PR Week/Porter Novelli found that only 38% thought being first out there was important.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 16, 2010
Dilenschneider's client Lou Dobbs is also getting top-drawer exposure in mainstream media, ranging from GQ to THE NEW YORK NEWS. Public relations leader Bob Dilenschneider seems to be having a very good week. His latest book AMA HANDBOOK ON PUBLIC RELATIONS has been on a steep upward trajectory. This morning on Amazon.com it's at 56,275. You bet, I rejoice with Dilenschneider.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 12, 2010
The old-line world of media changes slowly. Most of mainstream media lacks that hustling gene. Otherwise, it would have picked up years ago on the digital threat and saved itself. A sign of that tendency to harden in its assumptions and rituals is that the NATIONAL ENQUIRER did not win a Pulitzer for its investigative reporting of the John Edwards sex saga. It should have.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 29, 2010
Wonderful mainstream media jobs have been thrust upon her since then. For most of us digitals, Politico writers are gods. So everything they do, we mere mortals watch. Lately, there has been a lot of movement out for us to observe. And to speculate about. The latest to hit the exit door will be brilliant political analyst/communicator Michael Calderone.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 27, 2013
He even had guest columns now and then in brandname media. One of the things I did was edit pro bono an opinion-editorial he was publishing in a mainstream media property. Commercial success does not necessarily come from tons of digital connections and even heading online communities. We ghostwriters usually learn this the hard way when investing in a prospect. Let's call him Peter.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
What we do know for certain, reports THE WASHINGTON POST's Howard Kurtz, is that economics writer for THE NEW YORK TI ES Peter Goodman is shifting to the new media HUFFINGTON POST. Goodman's move sends a signal that new media has now become equal with mainstream media, even its elite publications like THE NEW YORK TIMES. Will the influence and power eventually tip in favor of new media?
Max Atkinson
JANUARY 14, 2012
below), this weekend has been alive with the sound of turning in the mainstream media, blogs and on Twitter. Thanks to a speech to the Fabian Society (above) and endless interviews by Ed Balls (e.g. Under a headline 'This is new all right. it just isn't enough ' , John Rentoul of the Independent on Sunday tells us 'Ed Balls caught up with where the Labour Party should have been 16 month ago. It was an important moment.' more HERE ).
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 22, 2010
That she leveraged into a solid brandname and easy access to mainstream media positions. Clearly, it's the end of the era. Snark, even GAWKER founder Nick Denton concedes, has run its course. Former Gawker Emily Gould might have published her memories of that time AND THE HEART SAYS just after closing time.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 14, 2010
PR has the advantage of being able to bundle old media and new media and put it all on a heaping platter for clients. A clever PR pro can serve up opinion-editorials in mainstream media such as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and FORBES and at the same time link to the dominant bloggers in an industry. Instead it is spending its funds on social media Marketing and advertising are down.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
Soon after the editor flagged me that a major media property would be linking to it today. A client I had done a comprehensive social media/mainstream media proposal for responded positively. The International Monetary Fund [IMF] delivered a dark warning about the state of the global economy. That included a revised forecast downward for U.S. GDP growth.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 3, 2009
With Mr. Colbert's NEWSWEEK mainstream media will finally be presenting the real deal: Events positioned and packaged as totally representing someone's or some ideology's or some pop tart's perspective. That rag had become so predictably boring, a mashup of elite media and the struggle for a cool conversation a la blogosphere. The collapse of the kind of journalism which declared it was objective was long overdue.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 20, 2010
Ana Marie Cox, who easily landed at GQ and had her ticket punched at many more other mainstream media publications, used to complain about how she had to pump out 10 posts a day at GAWKER for peanuts. What web operation isn't a sweatshop? So, I don't expect TIME's supposed expose on POLITICO tomorrow to crash its servers with visitors. Every industry, company, and individual in change better pull out all stops.
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