Save the Media

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m starting a new feature here at Save the Media, called “What the heck do you do on Twitter.” It’s an occasional feature, which in journalism-speak means I’ll do it when I have a chance. The idea is to showcase a variety of people who are using Twitter in creative ways. My emphasis, of course, [...]

A friend, Glenn Coin, has asked me to guest lecture about the ethics of social media for his Utica College journalism class, so I figured I’d blog my lesson plan to save time — and spread the message.
I thought the ethics of social media is a timely topic, given the debate over social media rules [...]

More than a year ago, Brian Stelter had a story in The New York Times about how the social media generation takes it upon themselves to pass on the news they feel is worthwhile. The story contained a seminal quote from an unidentified college student that has become iconic of the new journalism evolving before [...]

News organizations, take note:  More women than men are using social media, a new study says.
The study, from Information is Beautiful, uses Google Ad Planner numbers to come up with its conclusion that more women than men use many popular social networks. Digg stands out because 64 percent of users are men. Linked-In and YouTube [...]

Seems like it’s a good time for some short takes from my jaunts around the blogosphere. Here are some posts that I found interesting. Hope you will, too.
Is news like bottled water? Tim Windsor has a thought-provoking post at Nieman Journalism Lab today, noting that bottled-water producers know something newspapers do not: How to sell [...]

It’s time for some short-takes: stuff I find interesting around the blogosphere for journalist bloggers:
Blogger tip — be alert: I’ve visited this topic before, but it warrants repeating. You can’t blog in your niche well unless you’re reading what others are saying and know what’s going on in the news. One way to do that [...]

Time for some more short-takes, capturing interesting stuff I’ve found around the blogosphere:
Who will will? Deborah Potter at Advancing the Story says “specialized media will win.” I agree with her, and I like how she puts it.  It’s just another way of saying, guess what, we’re not a mass medium anymore. But I like Potter’s [...]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s recent announcement that it’s ceasing publication of a newspaper — and going online only — is sad because of the jobs and lives impacted and what it means for the future of journalism.
But I’m hoping the P-I’s online experiment can help us all learn a bit more about the revolution happening in [...]