Posted on August 26, 2005 8:31 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
So only 11% of all Internet users read blogs, according to Pew Internet and American Life study. If you think that means blogs wield little influence, you need to break those numbers down. Among that 11% are are a lot of journalists, 51% according to an annual study of media’s use of the Net. And 28% rely on blogs for their…
Posted on August 21, 2005 9:47 am by Shel Holtz | Media
Stephen Baker of BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting blog notes that Mark Cuban’s posting of source material for a New York Times story sets the stage for a series of changes in journalism. The post to Cuban’s blog includes the NY headline, “Mark Cuban is Mad (Again). But Why?” Cuban says he isn’t mad, and publishes the entire email thread between him and the NYT reporter so readers can judge…
Posted on July 29, 2005 8:42 pm by Shel Holtz | External | Media
In part of his response to my post on the press release meme, Eric Schartzman wrote, “...it???s tough, in today???s 24/7 news cycle where everyone has access to the newswires online, the segregate a news releases to just the news media.”
Yeah, it’s tough. That doesn’t mean that it’s never desirable.
I encountered two instances of organizations that embraced this notion that press releases are for everybody,…
Posted on July 28, 2005 8:04 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
The “press release is dead” meme just won’t go away. Every time you turn around, somebody is proclaiming that blogs will replace press releases. Press releases are written in stilted, corporate jargon, the argument goes, and blogs use natural, authentic, human voices. Who would want to read a press release when they could read a blog?
It came up again yesterday as I caught up on…
Posted on July 13, 2005 1:32 pm by Shel Holtz | Media
In the wake of CBS News’ announcement that it is banking on the web in its “cable bypass” (in the words of CBS Internet honcho Larry Kramer)—a massive expansion of its online news coverage—the network has revealed that it will also launch a blog that will turn a critical eye on its own flagship newscast, The CBS Evening News.
The New York Times reports that the blog…
Posted on July 13, 2005 9:01 am by Shel Holtz | Media
On “For Immediate Release” on Monday, Neville and I talked about citizen journalists and the role they played in reporting the aftermath of the terrorist bombings in London. Our focus was on the fact that mainstream news organizations incorporated citizen reports into their coverage. The Online Journalism Review has a different take. An analysis by Mark Glaser suggests that many of those…
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