The strange subtheme of David Samuels’ New Yorker portrait of John Coster-Mullen, a man obsessed with the truth about the first atomic bombs, is actually journalism itself:
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If I had to make a guess at the one, cardinal, sacrosanct, unbreakable rule of public relations it would probably be: never take credit.
Does everyone obey this rule? Well, take a look at PR man Leo Hoffman, of this outfit, taking credit.
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Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences).
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone who speaks […]
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Does marketing offer any insights into business problems - especially those of the news business? Most old school journalists would put marketers in with snake oil salesmen, but marketers can be savvy analysts. Ignore them at your peril.
Here’s marketing ace - and my old Dean from London Business School - John Quelch analysing what went wrong […]
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A new book, Beyond Trust picks up some of the issues raised in Can You Trust The Media?
Here’s Kevin Marsh, siding with Andrew Gilligan, in viewing the book as nihilistic:
Journalism’s journey – in Professor Larry Sabato’s (1991) description – from ‘lapdog, through watchdog to junkyard dog’ with all that entails in loss of public trust is, in […]
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The British Medical Journal has a piece out - Who’s Watching The Watchdogs?* - about conflicts of interest between medical journalists and big pharma.
Yes, medical journalism is not travel journalism. The article begins:
Doctors should be wary of the increasing entanglement of medical journalists and the drug industry, warn Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, and Ray Moynihan.
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Advice doesn’t come any better than this - from the excellent Editorialiste:
Send in applications everywhere you think you’ve got a shot — then prove it to each company in your application. It’s worth the time to tailor your application, even if you never hear back.
When you’ve sent out all that you can, send more. I can’t stress this enough. […]
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