Journalism, the World and the Future
Discussion of the future of journalism from GMU
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- Learning to repeat yourself, a lot, over and over again – Lessons in EntrepreneurshipDigidave | Nov 4, 2010Lauren Michell Rabaino says: .@digidave's two cents on company taglines, pitching your vision, repeating yourself and smiling. #startups
The questions never stop and depending on where your organization is – you can expect to get the same question over and over again. No matter the question – journalists need to learn to represent their organization with a smile.
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- Chile is a story about journalism’s failure (updated)@JeremyLittau | Oct 13, 2010Scott Karp says: 1300 journalists covering Chilean miners: Journalism can no longer afford that kind of inefficiencyShare on:
- Steve Jobs, Circa 1997, Reintroducing Applebits.blogs.nytimes.comScott Karp says: Steve Jobs in 1997: Those people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.Share on:
- The Twitter Diet: a simple, three-point plan for Twitter dominanceArgo Project Blog | Aug 4, 2010Ryan Sholin says: From @mthomps at NPR's Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab's tweets.
Both of these accounts are successful. 15,000+ followers is nothing to sneeze at. But @NiemanLab on the right is definitely more successful. These accounts are tweeting pretty similar types of information – news and useful information for journalists and media types. Yet @NiemanLab seems to be garnering more influence for its efforts. @Poynter has tweeted more than three times as much as @NiemanLab, but it has 10,000 fewer followers, and it’s on 1,000 fewer lists. Why might this be?
Share on: - TBD debuts with no new ideas, but real actionLost Remote | Aug 9, 2010Ryan Sholin says: Friends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: "What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action."
These are all old ideas, quite frankly. Journalists have talked about them for years now. Others have pitched them to their bosses until they’re blue in the face. And still others have launched elements of these ideas as niche products, subsets or prototypes. But this is the first time that a local media group — especially in the TV space — has wrapped these ideas together and aggressively launched them with an investment to back it up.
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- Learning to repeat yourself, a lot, over and over again – Lessons in Entrepreneurship
