Monday, November 9, 2015

Snapchat gets billions of views a day?

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/8/9692894/snapchat-daily-video-views-six-billion

Apply to work for Google News Lab

Here is the info:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/students-spend-the-summer-working-with-nieman-lab-via-the-google-news-lab-fellowship/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=0353c4df87-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-0353c4df87-380333213

Embracing VR: It's not just the NYT

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/news-outlets-left-and-right-and-up-down-and-center-are-embracing-virtual-reality-technology/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=0353c4df87-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-0353c4df87-380333213

Social media "dialogue"

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/meet-dialogue-the-new-front-in-the-internet-commenting-wars/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=0353c4df87-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-0353c4df87-380333213

Al Roker in bed with NetJet?

Product placement gone awry?
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/663440864434257920


As he scurries about for "Today," NetJets is right there for him as a promotional photograph for the show makes abundantly clear. (Today) Would any self-respecting print organization countenance that?

Monday, November 2, 2015

Why ethics in PR matters

http://www.prweek.com/article/1370843/thank-goodness-volkswagen-reminded-us-why-ethics-matter

Movie focuses on journalism (Spotlight)

Here is the info from WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/spotlight-celebrates-a-vanishing-form-of-journalism-and-of-filmmaking/2015/10/29/218f149a-7cba-11e5-afce-2afd1d3eb896_story.html

And the blurring continues: Welcome to content marketing

http://mediashift.org/2015/11/why-freelance-journalists-are-shifting-their-careers-to-content-marketing/?utm_source=MediaShift+Daily&utm_campaign=5ac4916309-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_70e55682fc-5ac4916309-286200613

Is viral content morally defensible?

Let's ask Buzzfeed:
https://medium.com/@digidave/how-defensible-is-your-content-e98767ee903c#.iok5vc8al

Who is a legit writer these days?

MLB.com's writers in question:
http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/382285/divided-baseball-writers-will-vote-on-whether-to-let-mlb-com-scribes-into-their-association/


And some education reporters, too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2015/10/29/fd03d240-79cc-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html


http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/378943/gates-foundation-spending-on-journalism-7-million-a-year/



A war-porn book just in time for holiday shopping

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/01/my_little_war_porn_addiction_david_shields_on_how_the_new_york_times_made_the_iraq_and_afghanistan_wars_look_really_cool_really_glamorous_really_bloodless/

GOP wants more control of debates, mad at networks

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/rnc-pulls-out-of-february-nbc-news-debate/276179?utm_source=morningmedianewsfeed&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter20151102


http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/republican-debates-rnc-215429#ixzz3qIryGKj6
The next GOP debate is Nov. 10:
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/fox-business-networks-gop-debate-rules-will-be-different/276206?utm_source=morningmedianewsfeed&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter20151102