Posts Tagged news
Brazilian Oil CEO Takes On Critics Via Corporate Blog – Plus: Garth Brooks!
Via a tweet from TheCEODaily.com, I ran across a Business Week story today on how the CEO of a Brazilian oil company is firing back at critics via the company’s blog – and on Twitter: Petrobras Brandishes Its Corporate Blog: In a company blog and on Twitter, booming Brazilian oil giant Petrobras strikes a combative [...]
The Journalists’ Guide to Facebook
Leah Betancourt, digital community manager at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, gives journalists a good guide to using Facebook.
Social media is transforming journalism from all directions – from within and from the outside, as newsrooms deploy social media tools, the web enables “print” media to use video, and the audience – formerly known as “viewers” and “readers” [...]
Focus on Newsweek’s New Faith Blog
Focus on the Family President and CEO Jim Daly has joined the roster of global religious leaders who contribute to “On Faith,” a blog published jointly by The Washington Post and Newsweek.
How to Eat the Competition’s Lunch
From Eric Shuff, the social media director for Nashville’s daily newspaper, The Tennessean:
Tomorrow morning, the entire lifestyles department of the Tennessean will be hitting the road to talk to the communty – in person. No using phone calls to get information. No calling people to come speak with us. We’re going to reach out to [...]
Rise of the Volunteer Media
Long-time Tennessee political commentator Frank Cagle notes the role that social media will play in the 2010 race for governor in the Volunteer State:
Blogs will play an important role in this election by default. Over the next year, traditional news organizations will do the occasional “take out” on the race. … But day in and [...]
Bland and Blander: The AP Goes Nuts
The Associated Press has decided that anybody who links to an AP story on the web and quotes from it even a smidge is now violating the AP’s copyright and owes the AP money for using its content. The AP is certifiably crazy, for a number of reasons, most of which Rex Hammock ably demonstrates [...]
Spinning the Web
The New York Times looks at the new way of media relations in the Silicon Valley:
This is the new world of promoting start-ups in Silicon Valley, where the lines between journalists and everyone else are blurring and the number of followers a pundit has on Twitter is sometimes viewed as more important than old metrics [...]
YouTube Aims To Train Citizen Journalists
Via TechCrunch comes news that YouTube has launched a new channel, the Reporters’ Center. TechCrunch says YouTube “hopes will prove to be a good way to educate existing and aspiring citizen journalists on how to report news in ‘the digital age’.”
The new resource from the online video sharing site “will feature a host of top [...]
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