William Allen White…Main Street journalism desperately needs you!
I swear I just heard a distant rumble and [...]
Turning the Page on Magazine Journalism…Not So Fast
There are a few of us – dwindling to but a precious few every year – that remember the golden age of magazine journalism…Life, Look, Collier’s, Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated…and later as our tastes grew younger…People, INC, Fast Company, InStyle, Healthy Living, etc. A recent story in the New York Times regarding Time, Inc. brought back both these memories and how fragile they may well be.
Clickbait: the new yellow journalism
One would think yellow journalism would be long gone by now. First of all, doesn't yellow journalism only appear in print newspapers? And isn't it true that supposedly no one reads newspapers anymore? Finally, since we have all these “new” rules on libel and defamation to keep faulty journalism at bay couldn't one assume that they have been largely doing their job? Unfortunately, it does not seem to be that way.
“Spotlight” on Good Journalism
The media in general, and journalism and its redheaded stepsister, [...]
EXTRA, EXTRA! Read all about it… Journalism for sale!
I’ve been a practicing PR pro for over forty years. [...]
