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Read MoreNews is Dead, Long Live the News
There have never been more ways to get your news than there is today. Each generation has seen its “new media moment” from the newspapers, to radio, and then live television, but in the last 20 years we have jumped light years ahead of the previous generations in the ways in which we can get our news fix. In the early days of the Internet, most traditional news operations created websites that let anyone...
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Read MoreOriginal Content, Not As Easy As It Looks
Not long after writing about my respect for Snapchat and their foray into the news publishing world, Deadline Hollywood (yet another news source I never expected to attribute) tells of the end of Snap Channel, Snapchat’s department for self-generated original content. This doesn’t mean they don’t value content beyond the duck-lip-selfie-pictures often seen via their app, but they are quickly...
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Read MoreHating “Content” is now a Thing
Newspapers are still fighting for respect in the digital age of news, but picking nits – regarding the way some people in the news and digital agency worlds refer to content – is going in the wrong direction. Marty Baron, the well-respected Washington Post editor was recently quoted in a NiemanLab article by the always-critical Ken Doctor, saying: I hate the word content, which is infiltrated our...
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