Save the Media

Sure enough, when I talk to a journalist who has just started on Twitter, inevitably the question will come up: What’s the tic tac toe thing all about? Welcome to the hashtag. The hashtag is simply adding a keyword with the pound sign or hash (#), which does look a bit like a tic-tac-toe board, to a [...]

Is twitter a magic bullet that will save newspapers? Of course not. The thing is. There is no magic bullet. What the newspaper industry needs to do to adjust to the changes in the media climate are similar to what an overweight person needs to do to get sleek. It’s not one thing: It’s a [...]