During the horrific week of the Boston Marathon bombings – where the news seem to fly faster than even Twitter – one thing stuck out like a sore thumb: The mainstream media remains the best place to get accurate news. Despite all the cuts, all the closings and the sorry economic state of the mainstream […]
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Tag Archives: Boston Globe
3 Ways to Save Journalism from Extinction
March 21, 2013 
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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. […]
Read moreShot Down in Flames: Good-bye, Boston Phoenix
March 18, 2013 3 Comments
It’s tempting to talk about the possibility of rebirth from the flames of disaster when discussing the sudden demise of the Boston Phoenix, the once legendary alternative newspaper in Boston. But I’ll spare you. Because the Boston Phoenix is done. Toast. A victim of the ongoing Great Media Collapse that started in earnest in 2009. […]
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 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 moreFile Under: Facebook Weird
November 29, 2012 2 Comments
Bizarre stuff happens on Facebook. And mostly it’s because people forget that nothing is private on Facebook. The latest case of what can only to called “Facebook weird” happened this week on the Pigalle restaurant Facebook page. An unhappy diner posted a complaint on the page (which has since been removed). She described her Thanksgiving […]
Read moreHurricane Social
October 30, 2012 0 Comments
On occasion, I still get an executive who “doesn’t get” social media. There’s the customary eye roll and the insistence that social media is for “teenagers.” This is usually when they tell me their high school age son or daughter knows more about Facebook than any high-priced, smarty pants consultant. (I think that’s a […]
Read moreFacebook is NEVER Private
February 13, 2012 2 Comments
“Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin, statesman Facebook gives users the illusion of privacy. You get to choose your friends and have the ability to regulate your content. Some people can see this. Others can see that. But regardless of how you direct traffic on Facebook remember […]
Read morePaywalls, Journalism & the Boston Globe
October 21, 2011 0 Comments
When I was a newspaper reporter, my peers and I referred to ourselves as “Inked-Stained Wretches.” It was our way of celebrating the broadsheet. The printed product that we all wrote for. From an early age, I wanted to be a newspaperman. I was the editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper; news editor and […]
Read moreSocial Media Myth Busting: Engagement
May 23, 2011 4 Comments
First, I’d like to come clean. Guilty as charged! I speak the word “engagement” ad nauseam. It’s one of those words I’m required to use as a social media consultant (Rule #34 in the Social Media Bible we all get from Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook). I’m talking about big “E” engagement – the idea of […]
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