Posted on October 7, 2009 11:01 am by Shel Holtz | Media | PR
Late last month, TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington declared The Embargo is Dead. Earlier, Arrington had announced that TechCrunch would break embargoes with a few exceptions. That was followed, Arrington wrote, by the Wall Steet Journal implementing a no-embargo policy unless it ensured an exclusive.
Next came a couple highly visible violations of embargo agreements, including a Google embargo that PaidContent…
Posted on September 9, 2009 4:24 pm by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Media
Gary Kebbel has an enviable job: Giving away $25 million over five years to people who enter the Knight News Challenge, designed to surface new ideas for the production and distribution of news.In this interview with Shel Holtz, Gary looks at some previous grant winners and touches on the importance to communicators of identifying new news methodologies.
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Posted on August 27, 2009 2:08 pm by Shel Holtz | Media
Last week, I delivered a keynote talk to the faculty of a university Journalism department. “Change” was the theme of the retreat. Some of the change had to do with remaining viable in the face of massive budget cuts. As one participant in the retreat said, “Higher education in California will never be the same.” But an equally important dimension of the change discussion…
Posted on August 6, 2009 7:13 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Web
Since Rupert Murdoch announced his plans to eventually charge for all of his newspapers’ online content, a number of opinions have surfaced about the feasibility of the pay wall and the reasons it won’t work.
For example, a MediaPost item by Wendy Davis (free subscription required) suggests that enough people who pay for the content will share it in violation of the…
Posted on July 17, 2009 3:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Ethics | Media | Publishing
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Posted on July 13, 2009 6:45 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | PR
We have evidence that Social Media Releases work based on feedback from bloggers in a Text 100 survey noting that they prefer SMRs. But does that mean SMRs actually generate greater pickukp of your story?
Yes.
Just ask Adam Parker, CEO of RealWire, a UK-based wire service that offers a Social Media Release option. In a post today on his Show…
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