Fell, Jason. (2010, April 23). Glamour Crowned Magazine of the Year. Consumer @ FolioMag.com. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://www.foliomag.com/2010/glamour-crowned-magazine-year Glamour won the title at a ASME National Magazine Awards event.
Archive for April, 2010
FolioMag.com: Glamour mag of the year
Posted in Journalism on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
NYTimes/BayAreaBlog: Gore &Current TV taken to court
Posted in Culture and Communications, Legal Studies, Television on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
James, Scott. (2010, April 23). The Brave Online World of Linking, Borrowing and Attributing (or Not). Bay Area Blog – NYTimes.com. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/the-brave-online-world-of-linking-borrowing-and-attributing-or-not/?src=twr/ Here is the leade: This week’s column is about former Vice President Al Gore and his cable channel Current TV, which were taken to court in San Francisco [...]
MarketingDaily: 2010 the year of the e-book
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Integrated Marketing Communications, Library News, Public Relations on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Baar, Aaron. (2010, April 22). 2010: The Year Of The E-book. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=126702&nid=113645 Interesting comment by Rubin (Exec. Dir. industry analysis, The NPD Group): And that may be part of the problem. For the e-Book readers to truly reach mass penetration, they’re going to have to get beyond leisure [...]
paidContent: Shepard Fairey v. AP
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Legal Studies on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Kaplan, David. (2010, April 23). Shepard Fairey: AP Suit Driven By ‘Crumbling Business Model’; AP To Fairey: You’re The Hypocrite. paidContent. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-shepard-fairey-ap-suit-driven-by-crumbling-business-model-ap-to-fa/ Reporter Kaplan discusses the suit with artist Fairey. Here is an excerpt: Fairey alluded to the business woes of the AP’s newspaper members over the past few years [...]
MediaPost: Pew – more than half of teens texting daily
Posted in Culture and Communications, InfoTech on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Walsh, M. (2010, April 21). Pew: More Than Half Of Teens Texting Daily. MediaPost Publications. Retrieved April 21, 2010, from http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=126527&nid=113493 Summarizes a new Pew study that finds, “More than half (54%) of American teens were text-messaging daily in September 2009, up from 38% eighteen months earlier. Overall, 72% of teens are now text-messagers.” Here [...]
OJR: j-students need to learn SEO
Posted in Journalism on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off
Niles, R. (2010, April 21). Student journalists need to learn SEO more than they need AP style. OJR: The Online Journalism Review. Retrieved April 21, 2010, from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/201004/1843/ The problem: there is no textbook for J-student on SEO (yet). Niles refers to Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land) who offered SEO tips.
NYTimes/corner office: Fuse’s co-founder on leadership
Posted in Communications Management &Design on April 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Bryant, A. (2010, April 16). Corner Office – Fuse’s Co-Founder – Scoreboards Aren’t Everything – Interview. NYTimes.com/ Corner Office blog. Retrieved April 20, 2010, from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/jobs/18corner.html Interview of Bill Carter, “partner in and founder of Fuse, a youth marketing agency” that examines how sports coaching influenced his leadership style.
Europeana Supports the Public Domain
Posted in Culture and Communications, Legal Studies, Library News on April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
From Europeana, in support of the public domain: If you have seen the new Alice in Wonderland movie, based on the book by Lewis Carroll, or enjoyed a production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with its roots in the story of Pyramus and Thisbe by Roman poet Ovid, you have benefited from the Public Domain [...]
AP: No audio for broadcasters in Sup Ct case
Posted in Culture and Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies on April 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Sherman, M. (2009, April 15). No audio for broadcasters in Supreme Court case. Associated Press. Retrieved April 19, 2010, from http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_NO_AUDIO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT I’m not a fan of C.J. Roberts. An excerpt: The court typically doesn’t explain its actions, but there is some thought that releasing the audio more frequently would start the court down the slippery [...]
AP: Rolling Stone’s archive going online — for a price
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Library News, Public Relations on April 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Vanacore, A. (2010, April 16). Rolling Stone’s archive going online — for a price. Associated Press. Retrieved April 16, 2010, from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100416/ap_en_ot/us_rolling_stone_pay_wall From the 2nd paragraph: With a new site launching Monday, Rolling Stone will become one of the most prominent magazines to decide that adding a “pay wall” is the best way to make [...]
CJR: ProPublica humdinger on a diabolical CDO Scheme
Posted in Culture and Communications, Journalism, Radio on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Chittum, R. (2010, April 9). ProPublica Humdinger on a Diabolical CDO Scheme. CJR. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/propublica_humdinger_on_a_diab.php CDO= Collateralized debt obligation. Apparently reports from This American Life and Planet Money will help explain the mess to the public. Robert Lopez (Avenue Q) wrote the song, “Bet against the American Dream.” All the financial [...]
paidContent: Philly.com partners with FanDuel.com
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Legal Studies, Public Relations on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Tartakoff, J. (2010, April 13). Philly.com’s Newest Source Of Revenue: Sports Betting. paidContent. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-philly.coms-newest-source-of-revenue-sports-betting/ Regarding the sports betting process: It’s all legal, according to Fanduel…because “fantasy sports is considered a game of skill and received a specific exemption” from the ban on online betting in the U.S.
Variety: Genachowski’s broadband plan
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, InfoTech, Journalism, Public Relations, Radio, Television on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Littleton, C. (2010, April 14). Big agenda for FCC chief: Genachowski’s broadband plan tops to do list. Variety. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017701.html?categoryid=10&cs=1&nid=2248 Examines Genachowski’s skills & how they’ll help him implement the broadband plan & other FCC initiatives despite opposition.
MIT World: Death of the News?
Posted in Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism, Radio, Television on April 14, 2010 | Comments Off
From MITWorld: ” Moderator Jason Pontin sets the stage with his “dolorous and long toll” of newspapers and magazines that have gone bankrupt, or cling to life as their subscriptions and ad revenues fall. He nevertheless invites panelists to make the case for journalism’s survival.” Watch it at MITWorld. more about “Death of the News? [...]
PEJ: News leaders and the future
Posted in Journalism, Radio, Television on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off
News leaders and the future: News executives, skeptical of government subsidies, see opportunity in technology but are unsure about revenue and the future. (2010, April 12). Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ). Retrieved April 13, 2010, from http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/news_leaders_and_future A new report from PEJ. Here is the opening paragraph: America’s news executives are hesitant about many [...]
The Pulitzer Prizes
Posted in Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Harris, P. (2010, April 14). Pulitzer alchemy turns methane gas to public service gold. PoynterOnline. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=181460 Describes the investigative process used by reporter Daniel Gilbert of the Bristol Courier Herald. His hard work earned the paper a Pulitzer for Public Service. Read Harris’s book Pulitzer’s gold : behind the prize [...]
[i]ndependentLens: Blessed is the Match
Posted in Culture and Communications, Television on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Description of the film (watch it on WSKG April 13th at 10pm) At age 22, Hannah Senesh parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in an effort to save the Jews of Hungary. As a poet and diarist, she left behind a body of work that has inspired generations. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, BLESSED IS [...]
Variety: COCO IS WITH TBS
Posted in Culture and Communications, Television on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Schneider, M. (2010, April 13). Conan, TBS pull a talkshow shocker – Entertainment News, Front Page, Media – Variety. Variety. Retrieved April 13, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017637.html?categoryid=10cs=1&nid=2248
AlterNet: Pentagon massacre cover-up
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Indymedia, Journalism, Media Literacy, Public Relations, Radio, Television on April 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Thill, S. (2010, April 3). Intelligence Agencies Allegedly Going to Extremes to Suppress Video Confirming Pentagon Massacre Cover-up | | AlterNet. AlterNet. Retrieved April 11, 2010, from http://www.alternet.org/story/146275/intelligence_agencies_allegedly_going_to_extremes_to_suppress_video_confirming_pentagon_massacre_cover-up_ See Collateral Murder, Wikileaks.
NYT: Iger, a blockbuster CEO
Posted in Communications Management &Design, Culture and Communications, Public Relations on April 11, 2010 | Comments Off
Barnes, B. (2010, April 9). Is Disney’s Chief Having a Cinderella Moment? The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/business/11iger.html?partner=rss&emc=rss An excerpt in praise of Iger’s success: “The spectrum of points of view this job requires is incredible, and Bob is great at it,” says Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, who became Disney’s largest shareholder [...]
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