I recently posted that I believe online newsrooms, search engine optimized press releases and email newsletters are more important to organizational communicators than Twitter and Facebook. Not that I believe Twitter and Facebook are unimportant. The Advance Guard just released a white paper on how ...

CNN Newsroom anchor Rick Sanchez may want to give stand-up comedy a try if his career in journalism falters.  On Friday's program, Sanchez said - with a straight face: To be clear, we don't fit into any template here, Democratic or Republican or otherwise. I play it down the middle. Anyone who's se...

Guest blogged by Ana If Megyn Kelly's outrage over the pornographic video that Comcast let slip during the Superbowl coverage in its Tuscon market is real (and I suspect it is), one must ask why show the video during your segment? With video. Today in Kelly's court, Megyn Kelly hosted Attorneys Merc...

Image byhttp://www.prestonlee.com/archives/67 via CrunchBase I am not sure any of the old media could ever pull off the a digital newsroom !  There are certain content creators like Chris Brogan Seth Godin Steve Rubel Dave Winer who could show them how, but will they understand !   I don’t ...

During a segment on Friday’s Newsroom program, CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen heralded the FDA’s approval of the first human clinical trial involving embryo-destroying stem cell research. Cohen then gave a soft interview of the president and CEO of the company involved in the t...

They say the first few weeks after Christmas are the most depressing days of the entire year. So as you sit hunched over your keyboard nursing a steaming mug of mud-like coffee, you might welcome the odd spot of workplace banter. If your office fails to bring such joy, then check out ‘Overhear...

We've seen the mainstream media afflicted with Palin Derangement Syndrome.  We've experienced the media in the throes of Bush Derangement Syndrome.  Over at CNN, which modestly styles itself as the most trusted name in news, there's now an outbreak of Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome. Last wee...

Reporting on the financial crisis was highly criticized by many, including Danny Schechter , a respected investigative journalist and the author of Plunder, a book about the modern banking system.  Some countries, such as Russia, even monitored the coverage of the crisis in order to avoid sprea...

Last night (December 31, 2008) Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly co-hosted Fox News' coverage of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. Seconds before the 11:00 p.m. ET hour, Hemmer said, "Hey everybody, listen. We are one hour and 30 seconds away from the big ball dropping out of the sky on 42nd...

Queasy Media Last weekend I sipped on hot coffee, and with great indulgence, paged through hard copies of the The Deseret News , The Salt Lake Tribune and  The Wall Street Journal.  How much longer will I have this weekly luxury?  On weekdays, I get my news online...in tense and static moment...