I’ll be doing the Poynter live chat thing at 1pm EDT today over there.
Please, show up, ask some questions, share some success stories, and add to the conversation.
[UPDATE: Wow, that was awesome. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to Ellyn, Mallary, and everyone else at Poynter for hosting and inviting me. The above link [...]
All about social-media
Chat live with me today at Poynter about teaching social media in journalism school
July 9, 2009
Five Keys to Authenticity
June 29, 2009
A few days ago at the annual APSE convention, I led two sessions on Networked Journalism. On the way down to Pittsburgh from Rochester in the car, I tried to work out an idea I’ve been playing with for a while.
Authenticity.
Not authority, or reliability, or popularity, but a more difficult to quantify metric that I [...]
Recommended social media guidelines for reporters
May 15, 2009
Be honest.
Be yourself.
Assume that everything you say is public, even if you say it privately.
If it’s not clear to you what’s public and what’s private, don’t participate.
Inspired by recent discussion about the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times guidelines for reporters using social media.
On IdeaLab: The Pitch mashes up journalists, bloggers, and social media types in Seattle
November 20, 2008
Over at IdeaLab, an IM interview with Jason Preston of Eat Sleep Publish about a series of events he’s organizing called “The Pitch.”
The premise? Put together some of the smartest, most engaged, passionate thinkers about the changing media landscape in a room, buy them a few drinks, and let the conversation flow.
Jason:
“And I think that [...]
It’s high time to send our pigeons out into the diaspora
October 4, 2007
Jeremy Wagstaff on the outdated definition of ‘news’:
“We journalists have been schooled in a kind of journalism that goes back to the days when a German called Paul Julius Reuter was delivering it by pigeon. His problem was a simple one: getting new information quickly from A to B. It could be stock prices; it [...]