Save the Media

Back from a summer hiatus, and I have some interesting stuff for you from my jaunts around the blogosphere:
Would you pay for online news? Who wants to know? Well, Chas Hartman, a former newspaper reporter and now Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kentucky for one. And, well, pretty much everyone else who cares about [...]

The Pew Research Center released an interesting study last week that offers some sobering — although not surprising — insights for the news business.
Researchers examined top news stories in the mainstream press as well as what news got traction on blogs, Twitter and YouTube. A main finding was that what’s hot on social media differs [...]

Quill online, of the Society of Professional Journalists, released its list of 20 “industry thinkers, innovators, and practitioners” to follow, and I’m humbled and honored to be one of them.
But what’s way more important that my tiny moment of fame is the list itself. It’s chock full of folks I want to know more about. [...]

 I’d say the Syracuse BizBuzz Social Media Conference this week was a great success.
The buzz was about 325 people showed up. The whole experience was pretty exciting — to be around so many people who want to get more connected and engaged online.
A few hiccups, of course: WiFi was really spotty in the main conference [...]

I am part of what I think is a pretty exciting event going on this week in my hometown of Syracuse.
The Syracuse Biz Buzz is the area’s first major social media conference.  The keynot speaker is Dave Evans, author of “Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day.”   A slew of presentations are planned, including a [...]

Time for some short-takes of cool journalism-related stuff you should be reading around the blogosphere:
Social media goes mainstream: So finally, being on social media has stopped being gee whiz and started being, well, normal. Manish Mehtma sums this point up well in this Huffington Post blog item. He notes that this process of normalizing will [...]

I can hardly believe it has been more than a year since I started this blog. Back in those early days, I had hardly any readers. I was writing for myself, but bit by bit some of you started to read. I thank all of you for that. I appreciate your comments, your interest in [...]

Twitter turns 4 in the new year, so I think it’s old enough to learn some manners. Here are my suggestions for Twitter etiquette and style as we head into 2010.  I’m sure I’ve missed some ideas, so feel free to add in the comments.
To tweet or to twitter: I think it has been well-established by [...]

Another post in my occasional series, “What the Heck Do You Do On Twitter.” This one is from Juliette Lynch, a senior photojournalism and international relations major at Syracuse University. She loves photography and storytelling, people and traveling, and of course, good conversation and coffee. She blogs at Que Me Mueve and Growing Up Girl.

I’m always [...]

Today’s post is second in my new occasional series, “What the heck do you do on Twitter.” Today’s post comes from one of my news writing students, Danielle Alvarez, a 21-year-old magazine and modern foreign language major at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. (Don’t worry — she’s getting extra credit for doing [...]