If you’re a sports fan, this has to be one of your favorite times of year — March Madness, the start of a new baseball season, the Master’s, upcoming NFL draft and impending NBA playoffs. For sports fans, it doesn’t get much better than this. Which means it’s also prime time for ESPN. When it […]
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Carefully Crafted on April 04
Carefully Crafted on September 23
Exploring Relationships Between Social Media and Publicity
Here’s today’s shocking statistic of the day: 70% of journalists use social networks to assist in reporting, according a a recent report in PRWeek (log in required), which I first read about on Journalistics. That’s 30 points higher than last year. For reasons that I still can’t quite wrap my head around, more than a […]
Carefully Crafted on September 01
What's News?
How do you define “news?” What’s newsworthy … what’s not? For example, why does a Twitter outage become the lead story on CNN.com; yet Gmail goes down, and it’s barely a blip on mainstream media’s radar? I know Twitter is the exciting, intriguing new service, but is a “fail whale” more newsworthy that the outage […]