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Getting the consultants in…
In case you’re a broadcast exec tempted to get the consultants in, here’s the latest blue-sky thinking straight out of the box, finger-in-the-air style: Fundamental restructuring is occurring in every industry sector, and some sectors, like broadcast television and music, could emerge from this period far different from what they are today (No kidding!) Mass…
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Videogame journalism – lost genres in journalism
You know journalism must be in trouble when even videogame journalism is in crisis. OK, so it’s easy to mock…and I must admit a smile did cross my lips as I read the piece, but if you keep on reading Jonas Allen‘s jeremiad for a corner of journalism I didn’t even know existed, there are…
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Attack of the demablogs
Here’s a recent piece from Press Gazette: Were I writing a demablog – a polemical rant against the MSM (the ‘mainstream media’) – I’d probably start the piece like this: Journalists risking their lives to report on the world’s most dangerous places now have a new enemy. They risk being shot in the back by…
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More on social media editors
An interesting post from Cristian Mezei, on how to come to the attention of one small corner of the social media. A précis of his Digg tips below… What will get you a frontpage: 1. The rapidity of the votes. If you get 40-50 votes (no matter what users digg) in the first 30 minutes,…