A Summary of the Undercover Food Lion Story The University of Nevada’s “J-week,” a series of cutting-edge journalism events running this week, is just about over. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend two lectures yesterday. Lynne Dale, former reporter and producer from ABC’s Primetime Live, gave a tell-all account of going undercover [...]
January 1, 2009
Here are the most read posts of this site from 2008, which actually saw quite an increase this year, not so much in site visitation, but rather in participation – people commenting on the posts or linking to them and commenting elsewhere. I’ll take that that over the numbers any day. [Edit 1/1/09: This post [...]
December 28, 2008
Ten Reasons Why PR is Better Suited for Business Schools I used to have a negative reaction when I heard or read about news journalists harping on why journalism schools should get rid of public relations emphases. I couldn’t quite figure out why until recently. At first, I vehemently disagreed with the notion, usually adopting [...]
October 14, 2008
After reading my local paper’s articles online, I often skim down to the comments below the article. It is here where I begin to feel so very unclean. With the advent of attempts at creating more transparent journalism, many news media outlets allow ordinary folks to comment on their news stories online. I’m not sure [...]
September 17, 2008
Lest we forget, the ‘public’ in public relations refers to the constituents to which we are accountable. So it irks me to hear about my colleagues who use their public relations positions to attempt to mold and control news stories to bizarre degrees. (When I was in a past position being encouraged to do [...]
March 6, 2009