Let this statistic sink in for a moment. Total number of journalists in the U.S.: 40,000 Total number of Google employees: 54,000 Google was founded in 1998. Journalism may have died around the same time. Try this one on for size. There are 3.6 public relations professionals for every single journalist. Nearly 4 to 1. […]
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How to be a Paperboy
March 13, 2013 
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Remember the neighborhood paperboy? Every morning (or afternoon) he mounted his bicycle with his trusty his canvass shoulder bag and hand delivered the daily newspaper to dozens, even of hundreds of households. Personalized, customized delivery to meet the needs of the clients. That used to be the way content was delivered. But make no mistake […]
Read moreHas Journalism Become Elitist?
March 7, 2013 13 Comments
The answer, unfortunately, might be yes. At one point, only a couple of decades ago, newsrooms were filled with reporters culled from the ranks of blue-collar and working class families. When I started in journalism, newsroom were gritty places. Profanity was not only common, but as permanent as the water stains on the ceiling tiles. […]
Read more3 Ideas for the New Boston Globe Owners
February 25, 2013 2 Comments
The Boston Globe is the largest newspaper in New England. The powerhouse regional daily newspaper, which still sets the agenda for daily discourse in Boston and Massachusetts. But it has been dying a not-so-slow death for more than a decade. Like most daily newspapers, the Globe has seen its paid circulation plummet (from a […]
Read moreJournalism’s Addiction: In Love with Journalists
February 21, 2013 9 Comments
The practice of journalists interviewing journalists has become a pet peeve of mine. So I was irked recently when listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and the host introduced a story about the Egypt reaching the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak being ousted as president. In order to recap the last year and the turmoil Egypt […]
Read moreWill Anyone Ever Pay for Journalism Again?
February 13, 2013 10 Comments
Never giveaway a product if you have to sell it to stay in business. Sounds like a no-brainer doesn’t it? Because guess what happens when no one wants to buy your product anymore? You go out of business. That’s what’s happening to the business of journalism right now. It is slowly, but surely, going out […]
Read moreBTW – Journalism Continues to Collapse
February 1, 2013 13 Comments
Remember 2009? The year that I like to call “The Great Media Collapse.” Layoffs galore. Newspapers folding. Magazines selling for peanuts (remember the $5 million fire sale for BusinessWeek?). 2009 ended with more than 14,000 journalists in the unemployment line and newspaper circulations plunging to the lowest levels since the 1940s. Not a good year […]
Read morePitching Social Content
December 6, 2012 5 Comments
In the swirling storm of social media its popular to frown on the old-fashioned notion of pitching “traditional” media. How many times have you been told that media relations is dead? Well, it isn’t. In fact, it’s importance may be on the verge of a major upswing. First, can we please dispel the term “traditional […]
Read moreThe Death of the Deadline
December 5, 2012 6 Comments
One of the enormous changes in journalism during the “internet age” has been the loss of the deadline. The impact of this demise has been significant, but rarely discussed. Yet it may be one of the biggest in changes in the way journalists research, write and publish news stories. When I started as a journalist […]
Read moreThe Demise of Traditional Filters
May 24, 2012 0 Comments
In many ways, traditional filters made it so much easier to find and consume content. Traditional filters also came with the benefit of having a stamp of approval. We knew the content had been, well, filtered. Take newspapers. Newspapers filter news and information for us. Editors and journalists cover news they believed is important […]
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