This week I had the privilege of having my work featured on the Broad Side, an online magazine of women’s writing about important issues of the day. My post focuses on the love-hate relationship some women have with the term Continue reading
Last week, I had the privilege of teaching a new class about social media for journalism and other communications students at The University of Southern Mississippi, and I was thrilled that the Hattiesburg American decided to do a front-page story Continue reading
As 2012 wound to a close, Instagram, the hugely popular photo-sharing social medium, angered many of its users by changing its terms of service, and implying it might sell people’s pictures for advertising. As these thing do, the announcement raised Continue reading
I had the privilege on Election Day to speak with Marshall Ramsey of SuperTalk Mississippi, an FM radio station, about social media as I did back in September. This time, the topic was how social media is changing the electoral Continue reading
I had the pleasure recently to get interviewed on the Marshall Ramsey Show on SuperTalk Mississippi (supertalk.fm). Marshall asked me to come on his show to discuss a piece I wrote about what I call the hybrid model of news Continue reading
If I had to sum up my rules of the road for journalists on social media, I’d borrow a phrase from the physician’s Hippocratic Oath: Do no harm. Social media offers plenty of opportunities for journalists to engage with their Continue reading
Why should journalists and media organizations take note of Pinterest? Simple. Women love it. In case you’ve been under a rock, Pinterest is an online pinboard for expressing yourself by pinning photos of things you like on virtual bulletin boards. It was developed back Continue reading
I have new duty to add to journalists’ jobs: Imagine how readers will use the information news organizations disseminate. In the past, it was enough to gather the information, accurately explain it, and make some sort of sense of the Continue reading
If your Facebook feed is like mine, it has been full of complaints recently over the latest Facebook changes. People don’t like the Twitteresque status-update feed down the right-hand side. They don’t think Facebook should decide what “stories” are likely Continue reading
Today, I turn my blog over to a friend and former colleague, Amber Smith. Amber and I worked for years together at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY. Now, after 25 years in newspaper business, Amber has joined the marketing and Continue reading
